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Educating Open-Minded Students
Children are born without bias. As infants, they don’t care
about race, gender, religion (or lack thereof), sexual
orientation or cultural identity. As they grow, any prejudice
they exhibit regarding others could be the result of learning
via observation. That means if you wish to educate students
who are nonjudgmental; you must first take a look in the
mirror. You must also understand that the key to building
relationships and educating nonjudgmental students is
through the development
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Jan 11th 2021
Waiting
What are you waiting for?It feels like we are waiting for a lot these days. Yet
maybe “waiting” isn’t the right term. Maybe we aren’t waiting for the weekend
or for the next paycheck or for summer. Maybe we are looking at it the wrong
way. What if instead of waiting, we are living? There are
still things going on as we wait for something. When we wait with kids, we try to
get them to notice the moment—to sing a song, play a game, be active. Sometimes
we try desperately to get the
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Dec 21st 2020
2020: A Year of Visual Clarity
For over 150 years, the phrase “20/20 vision” has been used to
reference visual clarity or acuity. That’s from where the commonly used phrase,
“Hindsight is 20/20” comes. And here we are winding down the year 2020, when so
much is up in the air, it’s hard to look at this past year and think of
anything as particularly clear. But if we look hard enough, we can see that
2020 has provided us with the opportunity to look clearly upon our own lives
and self-reflect on things for which we sho
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Dec 7th 2020
When the Parent Becomes the Therapist
The
world-wide pandemic changed many things in our lives. One of those big changes
was school closures which thrust parents into a new role as educator and
therapist. This may seem scary and you
may want to react in a big way. When you stop to think about it, as a parent
you are one of the best possible teachers for your children. Not only do you know them so well but you
spend many more hours a day with them.
Instead of just thirty minutes of language or social skills practice,
with
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Nov 24th 2020
Being the "I" in Integrity
When I was 11, I walked over to the corner store to buy a
soda. I paid with a twenty-dollar bill, and the guy mistakenly gave me back
some ones and a fifty instead of a ten. I ran up to my dad and said, “Guess
what? I just got paid to buy a pop! It’s my lucky day!” My dad looked at me
surprisingly and said, “You’re keeping it?” I replied, “Heck yeah! He’ll never
know.” Then he said, “But you will know. You’ll know today, and tomorrow, and
forever. You just sold out your integrity for forty
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Nov 3rd 2020