If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow. ~ Alfie Kohn

"As we learn to turn down the volume of our adult agendas, we find ourselves better prepared to be immersed in the astonishing capacity of young children's drive to make meaning as individuals in order to create a world to which they belong." @sharrismackay Story Workshop p162

It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that helps people develop a healthy confidence in themselves, a belief that it's safe to take risks and try new things. ~ Alfie Kohn

Unstructured outdoor play helps build resilience

Children learn to handle their emotions, including anger and fear, during play. ~ Esther Entin

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind,... ~ David Elkind

Our faculty curriculum committee, led by @ckcheever, reviewing a new engineering course by having students present their portfolios of work. Most of the reflection talked about what they learned when things went wrong and how mistakes moved them forward. ✅ 😍🥳🤙🤩

So important for students to understand that an artwork represents a product & a process. Trying to help Ss share work beyond what it looks like. Creativity is the process, art is the product. Sending home talking points for parents. Lots of ideas to experiment w/next year too.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational.' ~ Penelope Leach

We closed out this unique school year by restoring a little bit of normalcy to our graduation ceremonies. Here's our tribute to the resilient Class of 2021! Congratulations! 🎓 🎉

Excellent Keynote by Steve Case, Punahou Festival of Ideas. Let’s ask ourselves, “What risks are we educators taking and how are we supporting our students to take risks?” Punahou School

"Imagine if leaders always paused to ask, 'What are you wondering about? What do you want more information about?' This pivot allows for dialogue around complex issues, instead of tasks to be checked off a list." Embrace Teachers as Researchers: bit.ly/3yKSHBK

Tonight, Royce Hall becomes a beacon of #Pride. To the Bruin LGBTQ+ community: thank you for lighting the way.

PLEASE HELP! February 14th, 2018 my daughter Jaime was murdered in school as a Freshman. Tonight, I am a dad who will go to the graduation that should have been. Let's send a message to Washington DC by making #DadsForGunSafety the # 1 hashtag with over 1,000,000 RT's.

Surprise: Your commencement speaker is Oprah! Oprah Winfrey jumped in to congratulate the first ever graduates of Geffen Academy at UCLA at UCLA! Full speech: ucla.in/2TCSQHn | #UCLA2021

Well done Mid-Pacific !! Beautiful integration of social emotional learning into your curriculum!!

Play is important for healthy brain development

Are You Designing Systems for People to Comply or Innovate? katielmartin.com/2017/03/25/are… #LCInnovation #EvolvingEducation

Before we ever put a pencil in a child’s hands, those hands should dig, climb, press, pull, squish, twist, and pinch in a wide array of environments and with a variety of materials. - Amanda Morgan