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Service-Learning and Life Philosophies
by Jing FongOct 30, 2009
- Here are two dynamic organizations that offer your students opportunities and engaging resources to express and act on what they believe. Encourage your students to take on a service-learning project or submit a personal essay to "This I Believe."
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Visual Learning: Walking Slowly
by Alyssa AustinOct 30, 2009
- Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.
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Facing the Future
by Jing FongOct 30, 2009
- Here is a range of lessons from Facing the Future for grades K-12, including some projects for university level students.
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Nurturing Creative Thinkers
by Jing FongOct 30, 2009
- In this entertaining talk, Sir Ken Robinson asserts that to get the best out of people, schools need to nurture creative thinkers rather than good workers.
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Visual Learning: Art Cars at Burning Man
by Alyssa AustinSep 22, 2009
- Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
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Connect and Engage: Education for the Mind & Soul
by Jing FongSep 22, 2009
- Here's a resource to connect your students' learning with their local community, culture, and environment. Also learn how knowing yourself can translate to being an even better teacher.
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Starting with Place: Molokai Students Re-Define their Education
by Vicki NewberrySep 22, 2009
- Head of School and teacher Vicki Newberry brought a place-based curriculum to her independent middle school in Molokai, Hawaii. Now Aka`ula School students thrive as they research and create positive solutions for environmental issues affecting their own community.
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Anthropology 101: How to Change the World
by Tom MurphyJun 30, 2009
- Professor Tom Murphy wanted his students to reconnect with nature. Now, they work beside farmers, fishermen, wastewater technicians, environmental groups, and Native American leaders through an award-winning service learning program.
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You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring
by Paul HawkenMay 27, 2009
- The Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009
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If You Give a Kid a Shovel
by Joe GillespieMar 11, 2009
- Joe Gillespie started his first school garden in 1993 with 50 raised beds. Today, he and his middle school students grow veggies year-round and monitor wind turbines.
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New Crop of Farmers
Feb 13, 2009
- Today’s young farmers are protecting the land and seeds, reclaiming farming traditions, and sharing abundance with family and community. Meet some of these young farmers in our photo essay.
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Changing the World: One Story at a Time
by Anna UnkovichJan 16, 2009
- For former teacher and Chicken Soup for the Classroom co-author Anna Unkovich, a “nightmare” teaching moment was the key to a more open classroom and sharing stories.
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Connect and Engage: Making History
by Jing FongJan 16, 2009
- To teach happiness, be happy. Teachers, in particular, need support to be passionate and content in a challenging profession. The Center for Courage and Renewal's "Courage to Teach" supports this belief with essays, articles, and a retreat program.
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Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight
by Jing FongDec 29, 2008
- Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate—and pause—to truly understand an image, its message, and why it’s interesting (or not).
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Three Cups of Tea
Dec 17, 2008
- In Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson, and journalist David Oliver Relin, take you on a journey that begins with a climber’s failed attempt to scale Pakistan’s K2 and follows with his repaying a poor Pakistani village that nursed him back to health by building them a school.
Happiness
What makes us happy?