A most compelling vision of Hope for the Future can be seen in the scores of videos circulating YouTube that show kindergarteners from all over the planet cavorting through the woods, tripping through creeks and having their scientists genes stimulated. Here are a few, including the words of educators speaking to the value of spending "class time" outside. Nature's Classroom - Tennessee Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or__q3VNq9o Nova … [Read more...] about Earth Week ends, stay outside kids
Archives for April 2018
A Whole Health Era Unfolding
"Whole Health Learning" is part of a broad societal response to the intractable presence of overwhelming conditions of ill-health faced across America; conditions that have thus far outrun conventional medicine's – and society's -- ability to redress them, notably: obesity, especially in childhood, that sets the population onto the path of chronic illness the debilitating opioid addiction epidemic pervasive and complex social determinants of health that wrack too many American … [Read more...] about A Whole Health Era Unfolding
New Lingo? “Health Strengthening Factors”
As in: "Which HSFs do kids study in 5th grade?" We hope that question and others like it find their way into faculty lounge and curriculum conversations in the future: it will mean that principals, classroom teachers and administrators have begun educating kids to a competency in the many health-related factors of life they will face after secondary school. But really: HSFs? Do we really need another acronym to drop into the education system? I don't see any alternative. This one (and … [Read more...] about New Lingo? “Health Strengthening Factors”
