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What feeds your Fire?
Last week, we had a good old-fashioned winter morning. It was two degrees outside and my nose stung as I went outside to melt the water in the chicken coop.
As I filled the wood stove, I thought about how kind the mild winter had been and how good it felt to feel the extreme cold. And how good it felt to fill the wood stove and let the fire burn hot. . . . And how good it feels to be inspired and engaged and to turn up the heat on the work that I am called to do.
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What are we reading to stay inspired?
Experience & Education, John Dewey
Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever written by John Dewey, considered by many the pre-eminent educational theorist of the 20th century. Dewey analyses both "traditional" and "progressive" education, insisting that both are inadequate and miseducative because neither applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience.
In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness, Chris Mercogliano
The pressures of modern life are increasingly squeezing the adventure, the wonder, the physicality-the juice-out of children's lives. Virtually every arena of kids' experience is now subject to some form of outside control, and this is a serious threat to the unique spark that animates every child. This book is a clear and compelling plea to save childhood.
Backpocket Adventure, Karl Rhonke and Jim Grout
From Karl Rohnke -- Here you have an illustrated series of games and initiatives that emphasize people as props and serendipity as the M.O. (modus operandi). No props? No problem"
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Refuel with  Us!
Educator's Workshop and Family Retreat
Tuesday February 21, 2012 - Thursday February 23, 2012
This three day workshop is open to all educators who are looking to expand their toolboxes. Days will be full of rich experiences, thoughtful, guided reflections and ample time to develop practical applications of the experiential model back at your classroom and school.
Bring your children. They can try new things and meet new friends at Adventure Camp during the day. In the evening, you can relax together, share stories of your days and enjoy the amenities of camp. It's an ideal working vacation!
Early registration ends February 1st. Register Now.
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