Q. What is Landscapes for Learning? A. It’s a mindset—-an opportunity-focused way of looking at the world of personal experience. You can CHOOSE to see your life any way you decide. Just decide! Q. Why did I name this blog and my independent education website and business, Landscapes for Learning? A. Lots of reasons, butContinue reading “Opportunity Mindset = Meaning & Wellness”
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Return to Uniqueness
Why can’t we inform people that they can be their truest selves sooner, encourage them to slow down to practice stillness, to listen to their inner guide, and give them the loving support and tools to do so? That’s a question I ask in my book and am answering with the creation of my coachingContinue reading “Return to Uniqueness”
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Podcast 015: Future of Education: Learning Beyond Schooling
“I hope to help dismantle traditional schooling and its unhelpful, outdated, damaging values and persuade teachers, school leaders, parents, and students to focus their attention on better, more important ways of learning. My goal is to support ALL parties in this transformation with their humanity and a love for our shared humanity in tact.” Continue reading “Podcast 015: Future of Education: Learning Beyond Schooling”
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Know Thyself & Save the World
We need to stop subscribing to traditional, outdated schooling and attitudes about conventional education and instead engage in authentic learning for psychological health and wellbeing, balance, to preserve our shared humanity, and prepare for a radically different future. Q. How should we be educating people for the future? What should we study? Some answers:Continue reading “Know Thyself & Save the World”
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Podcast w/ Myozen Joan Amaral on Zen, Zazen, Practice and Social Life
“The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.” ― Shunryu Suzuki http://traffic.libsyn.com/landscapesforlearning/JoanAmaralfinal008.mp3Continue reading “Podcast w/ Myozen Joan Amaral on Zen, Zazen, Practice and Social Life”
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About LFL Podcast
In this first podcast, I introduce myself and my purpose for the Landscapes for Learning podcast. http://traffic.libsyn.com/landscapesforlearning/001_ABOUT_LFL_PODCAST.mp3 I was motivated to create the Landscapes for Learning project to counter students’ and parents’ and schools’ over-valuation of grades and competition for college acceptance as the key to “the good life.” As a long-time educator, I sawContinue reading “About LFL Podcast”
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Podcast: A Parent-Teacher Conference
Solo Podcast: A Parent-Teacher Conference “A Parent-Teacher Conference about Values” is a solo episode about my book-in-progress It’s Not About The Grades: Love for Learning Beyond Schooling which I hope to revise and publish in the coming months. I provide a brief, yet incomplete, overview of the book in progress and read an excerpt from aContinue reading “Podcast: A Parent-Teacher Conference”
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Dr. Peter Gray on Schooling
“Everyone is way too concerned about grades and this concern is depriving young people of the freedom they need for true education. There is good reason to believe that much of the increased suffering of young people comes from the increased weight and senselessness of schooling. Young people are spending more time than ever in school, going throughContinue reading “Dr. Peter Gray on Schooling”
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Love for Learning Beyond Schooling
A love for learning is much different than a love for school. My greatest concern during my tenure as a high school English teacher was kids’ lack of understanding of and appreciation for learning. I don’t mean that they did not appreciate or love my lessons (some did, some did not). I mean, they thoughtContinue reading “Love for Learning Beyond Schooling”
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Podcast: The Call of the Wild with exotic animal handler, Niki Cesar Tracchia
“All good things are wild & free” -Henry David Thoreau Niki tells her story about traveling across the landscapes of nature– as avid hiker/outdoor enthusiast, wolf-advocate (yes, they need our help!), Bikram yogi, and exotic animal handler. After a not-so-great, though sadly typical, experience with public high “schooling,” Niki blossomed into an avid learner andContinue reading “Podcast: The Call of the Wild with exotic animal handler, Niki Cesar Tracchia”
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Who am I?
My previous “Calling a Spade a Spade” post is about telling the truth–– something our world desperately needs at this exact moment in time. Each of us has to talk about the truth, within our seemingly small and insignificant spheres of life, however uncomfortable or however much it may threaten our reputations. Our integrity andContinue reading “Who am I?”
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I am here. Now what?
A meditation on learning and brief defense of the humanities. Life is suffering. Life is one big problem; it’s problem after problem after problem after problem, isn’t it? I am not trying to be Debbie Downer here, but this is the fundamental truth of human life–it involves suffering. Nobody denies that pain is true.Continue reading “I am here. Now what?”
