Have you experienced the feeling of developing a creative, juicy lesson plan full of inspiration only to walk into the classroom and find it just doesn’t align with the needs of your students? Being able to recognize incongruence and spontaneously create a new agenda in the moment is a hallmark of a mindfully aware, attuned, present...
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Themes in and of themselves are not necessarily problematic. When themes are derived from the real-time lives and experiences of our students, they can serve well. Even mythical story themes involving archetypes and morals have a place in the scheme of a curriculum. However, when themes are random and disconnected from our students experiences,...
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My library is full of resources for sharing contemplative arts with young people. One of the oldest and still to this day most relevant books taking residence in my collection was published in 1976, the year after I was born. Dr. Deborah Rozman’s, Meditation for Children, includes several practical techniques that have occupied my teacher...
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