In One Week

One week from today, I'll be in Atlanta at the NAEYC conference, getting ready to share all about educational blogging for teachers.  I hope you'll join me!

Holistic Education

I've spent some time today on the Summa Institute website.  The idea of "Natural Learning Relationships" is new to me (like Place-Based Education), but both make me think about the core values that I have as a teacher.  Label or no label, we have to be able to articulate our ideas about children and education, and the more we learn, the more our practice can benefit.

There are some conferences coming up this summer that I'm hoping to attend - to hear people speak about new ideas.  The founders of the Summa Institute are speaking at the Northwest Holistic Education Conference on Orcas Island. 

What do you think of "holistic education"?  Is it new to you?  Is there a reason to label it?

What Are Schools For?

I'd like to go to this conference on December 6th in London : What Are Schools For?  Whole Education Conference 2010.  Unfortunately it conflicts with my plans to go to TedxBrussels.  What to do?

Whole Education is an interesting site - it is based in the UK, and their main goal is to have all children succeed - not just the ones who can afford to.  School is more than academics - and having the skills to take on life, not just school.