I attended a conference for educators over the Martin Luther King Day weekend. This year's theme for the conference theme was sustainability. Here are some of the inspirational snippets that I copied into my notebook:
EFFICIENCY
Living a holistic, sustainable life does not mean to live efficiently. We do not treat the things we care about or the ones we love efficiently.
PREPARING STUDENTS
"Preparing students for the world" is no longer a valid phrase. The world as we know it needs to change. Our students should be educated such that when they move into the next stage of their lives, the world is not prepared for them.
SWIMMING UPSTREAM
Teachers can take lessons from the salmon, whose existence as a species depends on their ability to swim upstream. The stronger the current, the greater the will of the salmon.
UNDERSTANDING
To understand is to see relationships, and how things mutually illuminate each other.
Yep. It was a good conference.
About Me: Jeremy wears many hats, including substitute teacher, school garden educator, hike leader, youth group advisor, Gardener's Swap Meet coordinator, husband, and father. His lifelong quests include the search for the perfect burrito, and more recently, how to sprout an avocado tree from a pit.
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