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Published: 2017-08-31
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyHZxTU_JsY
twenty first century is often referenced in education we talk about education or the twenty first century twenty first century skills and educating the twenty first century learner now I actually range from what I hear twenty percent because I find it's salt limiting there is a video called share capital and if she ever than half and hit the skies that we are currently preparing students for jobs
it don't get CS that will be using technologies I have yet to begin captive to solve problems that aren't even that we believe in our homes here now I seen chassis that we love had this hedgehogs in Ted's Hans are right he is worse ready and here's my idea I think it's time that we move beyond just number and we expand our thinking if we change
our words and we've moved beyond the number of the twenty first century and start talking about educating in new Natalie ever so lightly why do news Natalie you know she'll marry me is a humanity that seems cultivate a peaceful world of lot beauty and selfless service it's a harmonious world it embraces humanity enter happen next and the resilience of law and what kinds of educating new
humanity as holding a new humanity focuses on teaching and learning that recognizes each individual as a whole person you need the United in the world and what does educating they need to have a look like in the schools educating Mandy is recognizing and not just recognize my palm read each students as a whole shot I now we hear the term hold child's used in education and
many of you may know that the whole child consists of the cognitive physical social emotional and spiritual components now we do a really good job in education first for especially now since social emotional learning has really working place in education but you know I we still don't do a good job with spirituality image and much of that is because education is so afraid of confusing spirituality
with religion but spirituality not religion and I ask you if in fact we are going to address the spirituality component in our students in our schools can we really say that we are educating behold child I think not my research in resilience my research findings have found consistent findings with others in research and who it found and he's off in this spirituality component in our students
that's the quarrel program to tap into their resilience as they confront and navigate the family school and life challenges of today yeah like I said we are so afraid of bringing spirituality in our schools for fear of using spirituality with religion so I take it yeah and with our county judge make some distinctions between spirituality and religion religion is an institution organize around ideology doctrine bullies
and rules spirituality is something very individual and personal person religion is something we belong to spirituality is something we seek we often talk about being hunted religion is getting answers to those big question years while he's getting issue ask the big question like the purpose and meaning of life religion it's often guided by voices from the outside learn chief minister pastors priests rabbis spirituality is guided
by our hearts the voices began now within a context of education I talk about spirituality as they'd natural are and what your and I intuition and weighs down and reverence for life that often gets stuck out his it's they get old now in education we have to recognize that there are people who have done the research now Heidi professor scamper in her book the challenge she
Karen schools she talks about spirituality as being one of the things that's lacking most in public school education Parker Palmer author of courage to teach he talks about them define spirituality as the terminal human urine to be impacted to something greater than one's own ego and he too right now that spirituality is missing in education and with our students so now the question becomes can you
do this next Haitian well not only can he do that but in fact we argue with I have the privilege of mean that director of engagement and professional development at a school in Lafayette California called debaters Maher needs compassion the mayor schools has a white pony component of pre school and then a cake I can harm him although their school and he gathered they were called
the bigger schools now the mayor schools the mayor schools fosters individual achievement in an atmosphere that celebrates creative expression unity in close everything and our city we are truly a school of the heart needed a dedicated to educating and recognizing and hungry the whole child now what does this look like I want to tell you a story about what it looks like in our schools because
one of the things in our school we have a physical environment they totally increases beauty arsenals are surrounded by gardens give parties throughout the school and he's our gardens that are butterfly gardens guards vegetable gardens and the kids hand all the guards we also have no tasks in our classrooms instead we have tables that encourage cooperative learning groups and we encourage our students help each other
not compete against each in fact it's a huge story about how one of student one of our students one time teachers teach and someone raises their hand and she said so and so's looking on my paper and Sir that the teacher gave us hope and more closer so they are hatched our curriculum our curriculum is being used with the parks we hold the bear school the
hall that the parts arts are the vehicle back seats brass the beauty and unity that underlie diversity the whole the parks to be a catalyst and the tool that touches passion and love with all are skewed and we give you know a story of what this looks like our teachers work tirelessly to him to get the job throughout the great long to infuse drama stance songs
storytelling and visual arts one time I was in the pre school their team dream for a little and I was sitting in the circle with the kids and with a teacher sitting in a chair and she was beginning her drama of Jack ruby's and she began starts thawing and she gets that hiring is a five Beaudoin south instead winds which and the teacher he could stay
in character or she could just ignored the question but instead stock took a cleansing right last year hands put them over her heart in sag sometimes people's hearts are not yet ready that's why the giants behave the way he did his heart was still asleep and with that Giles satisfied with the answer the other children were satisfied with the answer and I was totally blown away
with the hands by the way the teacher that went back and started wish left off of the feet five Obama park I realized right there and then that that child that that teacher whose son doing something really phenomenal special children irony behind the children in the room their name kind the giant lesson and there was the cognitive dissidence with the children but back teacher was able
to recognize the cognitive dissonance and preserve yeah preserve the optimism hole in humanity and wonder and love for those children now as I say is things like all the ones you're the records for life intuition and it diminishes as our children got older but you don't have to take my word for it I want to share with you a letter that we received at our school
anonymous latter and it talks about what happened to these children as they were in high school and to just east with this latter this letter was written by students who otherwise they were going to made a school and get rich quick school they were to %HESITATION in special ed class but the pair school practices implicitly and so students may be in our classrooms and may have
a better working with them the Asians but our students are all in the same classroom we don't have special ed class as the mayor school so here's the latter dear Nader school the other night I met up with a boyfriend hadn't seen since we were fourth graders together we've hollowed out in bonded over the fact that neither of us like high school which we realized with
results such a whole somehow intrigues hearings after growing up in such a nurturing world acceptance and love high school seems shallow what is special line I've ordered on my first day sixth grade and never understood what happened if you look a little closer steps last the first decade of my life thank you worshipping your students such kind hearted people good luck with this new year with
appreciation and graduates because the mayor school touches and works through the heart over a hundred songs have specifically been great for the mayor's schools amplify the principles of love we and selfless service and so with that I'd like to share with you the lyrics to one of our songs and is holding every heart Shelby is one when every heart Shelby is why at all mankind's United
in every land beating the Sasha signed with truth and light work darkness you wells selfish yes and why immunity when every hard shell be his wife and one love will be when I did my eyes you see yourself and I seen me in yours then we shall share the greatest wealth our lustrous flowing to ours for blob increases wife share and leads team unity through love
