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Poetry often eloquently speaks to us about the work we have to do. John O’Donohue wrote a lovely poem, For a Leader, a blessing or prayer that offers a way of being for leaders. I found it on the Institute for Mindful Leadership’s website. When I read his poem, I see it as a challenge to…
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Today was our first challenge workshop with Fulton County Schools in Atlanta. At AK12DC we help schools learn and apply design thinking to address school-wide challenges that align with their strategic needs. We are working with the following five Fulton County Schools: Mountain Park Elementary Woodland Elementary Ocee Elementary Riverwood High School Hembre Springs…
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In his daily meditation on the Center for Action and Contemplation, Father Richard Rohr spent the week curating posts about the Shadow. This link takes you to a summary of the week’s posts on the topic of the shadow-side of human existence. Our shadow self is any part of ourselves or our institutions that we try…
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As part of the Lower School’s effort to learn more about the shared inquiry approach, Tai Hart, a 5th grade Humanities teacher at Westminster School, led an effort to bring the Great Books Foundation to campus to run a daylong workshop on shared inquiry in our February 2019 In-Service Day. Twenty teachers attended and had…
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I listened to a fascinating On Being podcast that was recorded in 2007 with the acoustic biologist, Katy Payne. Payne has studied the vocalizations/songs of elephants and whales for nearly 40 years. Her elephant study, entitled, Elephant Listening Project, explores the mysterious world of elephant vocalizations, many of which the human ear cannot detect. In…
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