Csikszentmihalyi writes, “The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” Flow describes a Utopian model of education — and it also sounds like play. READ MORE »
The title was too hard to resist on our FIFTH snow day of the year, so yesterday I tuned into the podcast of Terry Gross interviewing the author, Jennifer Senior. READ MORE »
It was as if the floor had fallen out from underneath me, but instead of an empty space, an actual concrete world rose to meet what had long been a gorgeous, intellectual pleasure. (I love algebra!) READ MORE »
Slowing down and letting the moment unfold, keeping the goal of being together as the focus, giving children your unbroken attention and modeling patience for the sometimes slow pace of evolving understanding are rare jewels in our electronics-saturated culture. READ MORE »
In thinking about the upcoming gathering of our new multicultural alliance, the following quotation came to me. It’s a Buddhist teaching, but it made me think of how a minority in our community is regularly aware of — and discomfited by — the currents that are unfelt by most of us. READ MORE »
Soft and enveloping…needs legs to function…often shaped like an “L”…touches the parts of a body that can be smelly…can be used as verbs…Those were some of the responses to the question that opened our staff meeting yesterday: “How is a chair like a sock?” READ MORE »
My perception has expanded. I see more deeply as I walk around Miquon at choice time. Children from Rossana and Rich’s group race back and forth across the creek with building materials, and lever and haul heavy rocks to their muddy homes in Monkeyland. READ MORE »
