Life is a journey—we're at the helm.
The more we collaborate, support, challenge and reinforce, the stronger we all become.
We are all gathered together as crew on an adventure here in this classroom, a cohort of Earthlings exploring the Uni(Multi?!)verse on Spaceship Earth and in the Spaceships of Imagination.
To guide us in our journeys?
Our map.
Read More"A still more glorious dawn awaits—not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise—a morning filled with 400 billion suns."
Read MoreWhat is your philosophy and experience re: teaching ethics, social awareness, values and social skills, articulation, persuasion and decision?
Read MoreOur classrooms are wide and varied as our ship of the imagination scours the great High Seas of Reality*—but our home base is a special lair—our Learning Lair—where we exercise and hone our superpowers, a sacred and magical place, a sanctuary of curiosity and wonderstanding.
Key Elements in a Learning Lair...
Read MoreAll Superheroes have it, and it can't be given—it must be earned. We can help each other earn, exercise + reinforce it by generously, curiously, courageously + consciously spotting, supporting + holding each other + ourselves accountable.
Shame and humiliation shut down our learning centers and distract us with defensiveness.
And we don't have time for distraction.
We have before us an incredible mission—*We* are the superheroes. The entire Future lay at our mercy, dependent upon our discipline.
It will require courage, tenacity, generosity, curiosity and attention to detail. We will fall and we will rise and we will battle to help bolster and lift all Life around us. Again and again and again. For as long as we can keep ourselves afloat amidst the apparently infinite uni/multiverse...maybe even multiverse?!
And practice starts now.
Read MoreWords Build Reality. Thoughts become words become action become habit become Future.
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Together we navigate the unknown—together we crew the Ships of the Imagination on the Great High Seas of Reality.
Read MoreI want to ignite intellects and souls, young and old, today and Tomorrow with the tools and powers and magic of the Story of Reality.
I want to spark the #CuriosityContagion in our Superheroes—to spread curiosity skipping and sparkling about, individual to classroom, classroom to community, today to tomorrow, here and beyond.
I want to build a stronger and more sustainable #FoundationOfTheFuture, enriched with sparkling curiosity and reinforced with the solid rebar of wonderstanding—because there is no more valuable imperative than that foundation.
I want to fight hard for education from the micro to the macro—I want to ignite our collective curiosity and put it to work solving real world problems so that our youth are prepared for today and Tomorrow, so that the spark *might* flicker on, defiantly against the darkness.
I want to help train Superheroes. I want to ignite Stars.
I want to Light up the night.
Read MoreInspiration from teachers, from storytelling to lesson planning, in between and beyond.
Nothing is writ—all is evolving. These units, these blogs—this whole project is a perpetual Work in Progress, honing toward complete units for sharing, discussing and forever improving.
Please shout if you have any ideas or questions!
#ShineOn.
(in case you're wondering—bolded items are generally future links!)
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Tips, ideas or fellow #BrainBattalions? Please, reach out!
