Film Recommendation!

SOUL SURFER... inspiring true story of a courageous teen, committed to her passion -despite losing her arm to a shark.  Bethany is a model for overcoming adversity ...and her family, friends, community -well, this film is worth taking in and taking to heart!

PLASTIC TO AVOID

PLASTIC TO AVOID

Consider your plastic water bottles, mugs, kitchen tools and utensils, as well as food containers. Read this to know more about the possibly toxic elements that we have gotten used to using...and till recently haven't thought twice about.

Let's allow rewiring from the inside out (and not the ___ backwards ways of corporate America)

...to begin your household, then marketplace dialogues, here are focus questons born of the multiple Councils on campus...

Just three brief questions:

1. Which is preferable: practitioners devoted to the reciprocal relationship between instruction and learning? (or selective testing, outside-designed schedules and curriculum presecriptions?) 
2. Which is preferable: principals devoted to the principles of pedagogy? (or outward appearances, schedules, presriptions, selective test results assembled to reassure outsiders that the insiders know what they are doing? )
3. Why would professionally prepared and devoted practitioners be pressed to divert pedagogically sound focus and effort these ways,  when the actual learning needs of our nationally diverse population demands every bit of our focus and attention? (Okay, so this one wasn't brief...forgive me: it truly is the big question to begin with! Unpacking this question leads everyone in dialogue to sources of the real problems with our public education system ...as manufactured over time.)