22 AUG 2016 by ideonexus
The Whole Child Mantra
Recently, I have been struck by the research concerning mindfulness. Just allowing our children time at the beginning of the day to meditate seems to do wonders in focusing them for the day. Even something as simple as repeating a phrase seems to alter our brainwaves and wire us for success. So I posit, after all we know, both through research and our own experiences, that we check ourselves every day and ask, Did I support the whole child today?
Let it be our mantra—healthy, safe, engaged...Folksonomies: mindfulness whole child
Folksonomies: mindfulness whole child
25 MAY 2015 by ideonexus
Brains Must Feel Safe for Education
The brain’s main job is prioritizing information relevant to our survival. Anything that suggests the possibility of danger, whether real or imagined, becomes a higher priority than anything else that is going on at that moment. This data is processed first, shifting our attention from cognitive processes down to the faster-acting limbic system, while more complex cerebral operations shut down. Survival always overrides problem-solving, analyzing, remembering, pattern-detection and other ra...Folksonomies: education whole child
Folksonomies: education whole child
07 NOV 2014 by ideonexus
Expanding the Scope of School Subjects
We should not retreat to a curriculum advisory
committee and ask, “Now where should
we fit this topic into the already overloaded
curriculum?” Although we cannot discard all
the fragmented subjects in our present school
system and start from scratch, we can and
should ask all teachers to stretch their subjects
to meet the needs and interests of the whole
child. Working within the present subject-centered
curriculum, we can ask math and science
teachers as well as English and social studie...Folksonomies: education whole child
Folksonomies: education whole child