Daily Short Thought Round-up #7
This week: philosophical wanderings stimulated by Marcus Aurelius' Medidations.
A warm hello to you,
I’m reading a book at the moment called Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin. I highly recommend it.
But it’s making me wonder - can we really make statements about helping all kids reach their potential and also make them all sit through hours of school dominated by two learning areas?
There is no doubt in my mind that, in our obsession with high standards in the ‘basics’, we’re designing a system that, as Grandin says, “screens out” kids who only find their mojo in learning areas that are now squeezed to the margins.
What a systemic waste of potential.
This week’s Daily Short Thoughts
On Monday …
I wrote about how I never really heard my students until I came to terms with who I was.
On Tuesday …
I wrote about how power distorts what’s important in education.
On Wednesday …
I wrote about how anchoring practice in relationships is what allows us to navigate the storms that come our way.
On Thursday …
I wrote about how easily data feeds our ego.
On Friday …
I wrote about how being inspired by kids changes everything.
This week’s message from Pluto
“Give me space so I can run back to you. Woof!!!”
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☕️ Enjoy this post from the archives over a nice cuppa. 👇
Collaboration
It’s the weather that tells me, reading your diary, this is the same place.
Your words leave prints like isobars marking the touch of rain and sun.
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The Daily Short Thoughts will bounce off ideas found in Lifelong Kindergarten by Mitchel Resnick.
See you on Monday. 🙂
Bevan