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May16

Here’s to the schools that advertise different kinds of society, and more cheers to the schools who encourage students to create, change, and reform their own societies.

Here’s to the schools that advertise different kinds of society, and more cheers to the schools who encourage students to create, change, and reform their own societies.

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We need schools because education is much bigger than academics, something politicians of all stripes fail to comprehend. School is about learning to live in a community with other free and equal citizens. That’s the reason we need schools. School is where we practice fairness, fitting in, standing out, forging partnerships, sharing, accommodating, tolerating, celebrating, and getting our own needs met, while helping meet the needs of others. School is where we learn what we need to know about building community, which is, after all, what human animals are all about.
Teacher Tom

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Jan23

thewholeworldgrumbleswithyou:

“Nine years ago someone sent Bronx high school teacher Stephen Ritz a box of spring bulbs. “I didn’t know what to do with them, so I stuck them behind a radiator, and they got forced”—meaning they sprouted into bloom from the heat. That accidental sprout was the germ of an idea that has rocketed Ritz and his students into new lives of growing hundreds of thousands of pounds of fruit and vegetables, operating farmers’ markets in food deserts, learning science, improving their health, getting certified to build mobile urban farms and green roofs for A-list clients from Rockefeller Center to the Hamptons, earning a living wage, and transforming their neighborhood, all in the poorest congressional district in America.”

“The Green Bronx Machine Transforms Kids’ Lives with Vegetables,” Anya Kamenetz for Co.exist

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Nov27

Say goodbye to your fears

Schools, colleges, workplaces as well, would do better with a wall like this one from the 2006 Burning Man Festival. 

Photo by Gabe Kircheimer. I saw this on a link from a link from a blogger I read. Blogger Clarence Ceniza (the second link) shares an online version of this wall as well.

To the artist/designer who created this installation, great job! 

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humanscaleschools: (via The Learning Community School - About TLC) The Learning Community School is an independent school for K-8th grade encouraging hands-on learning, outdoor education, teamwork and community engagement. TLC is a family to me, a place that encourages individuality and emphasizes that by taking the time to get to know each child’s strengths as well as areas in which they could grow. Kids are encouraged to learn in ways that make sense to them. Hands-on inquiry-based learning lets them literally take things apart (like broken-down dishwashers) and figure out how they work, rather than being told how they work and what to memorize about it. So much interaction happens across grade levels through reading buddies, science fair projects, cooperative games and even camping trips! Most of all it is a place where no one feels out of place and everyone is celebrated for their unique traits. - Tonya Clanton, former TLC teacher of 5 years

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(via The Learning Community School - About TLC)

The Learning Community School is an independent school for K-8th grade encouraging hands-on learning, outdoor education, teamwork and community engagement.
TLC is a family to me, a place that encourages individuality and emphasizes that by taking the time to get to know each child’s strengths as well as areas in which they could grow. Kids are encouraged to learn in ways that make sense to them. Hands-on inquiry-based learning lets them literally take things apart (like broken-down dishwashers) and figure out how they work, rather than being told how they work and what to memorize about it. So much interaction happens across grade levels through reading buddies, science fair projects, cooperative games and even camping trips! Most of all it is a place where no one feels out of place and everyone is celebrated for their unique traits. - Tonya Clanton, former TLC teacher of 5 years

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May22

teachersworldwide: OTTAWA — There are no computers at the Ottawa Waldorf School. No iPads, interactive whiteboards or flat-screen televisions either. Headphone wires don’t dangle from ears and pockets aren’t stuffed with smartphones. Students here don’t even have calculators. The only apples and blackberries used at this small private school are baked into pies that are cut into pieces as part of a lesson on fractions. As public schools race to equip classrooms with the latest in technological gadgetry, teachers of the century-old Waldorf model take a different approach. Here, technology is seen as a distraction — something that gets in the way of creativity and saps attention spans. The focus here is on human interaction and on equipping students with analytical and imaginative skills by using basic tools, such as pencils, pens and knitting needles. (via Teaching without distraction (with video))

teachersworldwide:

OTTAWA — There are no computers at the Ottawa Waldorf School. No iPads, interactive whiteboards or flat-screen televisions either. Headphone wires don’t dangle from ears and pockets aren’t stuffed with smartphones. Students here don’t even have calculators.

The only apples and blackberries used at this small private school are baked into pies that are cut into pieces as part of a lesson on fractions.

As public schools race to equip classrooms with the latest in technological gadgetry, teachers of the century-old Waldorf model take a different approach. Here, technology is seen as a distraction — something that gets in the way of creativity and saps attention spans. The focus here is on human interaction and on equipping students with analytical and imaginative skills by using basic tools, such as pencils, pens and knitting needles. (via Teaching without distraction (with video))

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May21

humanscaleschools: (via Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes - Home) Sustainability:  the shared responsibility for improving the quality of life for all – economically, socially, and environmentally – now and for future generations The Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes, a collaborative partnership of educators, families and the community, integrates the big ideas of sustainability into PreK-5 curriculum and campus practices. The goal of the Academy is to prepare students to be responsible citizens and agents for change, in their community and beyond.  The Academy is an international model for using sustainability as a lens for place-based education and service learning.  We maintain the highest expectations for academic and personal growth for all of our students and embrace the rich economic and cultural diversity of our community.

humanscaleschools:

(via Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes - Home)


Sustainability:  the shared responsibility for improving the quality of life for all – economically, socially, and environmentally – now and for future generations

The Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes, a collaborative partnership of educators, families and the community, integrates the big ideas of sustainability into PreK-5 curriculum and campus practices.

The goal of the Academy is to prepare students to be responsible citizens and agents for change, in their community and beyond.  The Academy is an international model for using sustainability as a lens for place-based education and service learning.  We maintain the highest expectations for academic and personal growth for all of our students and embrace the rich economic and cultural diversity of our community.

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May10

In the Philippines, they are using shipping containers to build similar low-cost housing.  Not a bad idea for a school building - for small classes :-) It looks well ventilated also. unconsumption: This isn’t your great-grandmother’s one-room red schoolhouse … The Vissershok School — located near Cape Town, South Africa, in a rural area where most students are “children of farm workers and underprivileged communities” — is built from a used shipping container. Tsai Design Studio, mentioned previously here, designed the project. For more container reuse, check out the Unconsumption archive here.

In the Philippines, they are using shipping containers to build similar low-cost housing.  Not a bad idea for a school building - for small classes :-) It looks well ventilated also.

unconsumption:

This isn’t your great-grandmother’s one-room red schoolhouse …

The Vissershok School — located near Cape Town, South Africa, in a rural area where most students are “children of farm workers and underprivileged communities” — is built from a used shipping container.

Tsai Design Studio, mentioned previously here, designed the project.

For more container reuse, check out the Unconsumption archive here.

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