I just watched an awesome TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson that I want to share with you.
Do your days at school feel like you are sailing into a headwind? Are you successful IN SPITE OF the dominant culture at your school?
If so, then you will be able to relate to this talk about how our education systems are designed to ignore three principles on which human life flourishes.
Differences, curiosity, and creativity.
If you are already creating library centers, then you are providing your students with a break from the low-grade, standardized clerical work that is dominating our classrooms.
Kudos to you! Keep on sailing into that headwind! Encourage curiosity, the engine of achievement! Cultivate a climate of possibilities in your school library!
Keep on being awesome...for your students!
Thank you for that, Cari! I can always count on your blog for inspiration when I seem to need it most. Thanks for being a voice of encouragement that focuses on the methods for enacting positive change.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Amanda! I am a firm believer in focusing on the positive!
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Thank you for posting this, Cari! I'm just beginning to plan learning centers in my library for this exact purpose, and I just wrote a blog post about being brave (or fierce as Joyce Valenza would say) in spite of the current climate in education. Thank you for summing it up so eloquently!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Mrs. J! Sometimes I need to remind myself about the "why" of what I do! It keeps me energized and focused.
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