Chapter One: RETHINK SCHOOL

Chapter 1  RETHINK SCHOOL If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.                                                                                                                    John Dewey   At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard Read More…

PART 1: Introduction: RETHINK EVERYTHING – Citizens of the 21st Century

PART 1  RETHINK EVERYTHING: Ask ‘WHY?’   The brain likes to nibble; it does not like paradigm shifts.                                        Eric Jensen   Whenever something brand new comes along – something that isn’t just a “new and improved” version of what we are familiar with – our first impulse is to reject it.  That is probably Read More…

EXCUSES

A surprising sentence came out of my mouth at a workshop last week.  The leader repeated it, then turned around, flipped to a new sheet on his chart rack and wrote my sentence, phrase by phrase, each one in a different color:   Letting go of my excuses means I’m free to be who I Read More…

Rhonda Fleming

I wrote a blog post on Meanderings just after we met Rhonda Fleming (not that Rhonda Fleming) at Orick.  I had to knock on her door because when we pulled into the parking lot across from The Palms Cafe … we saw our exact same rig … both RV and toad!  Turns out she is Read More…