{PBJFlorida} Back to school - - - focus: connection

"Educators should be in the emotional attachment business before they are in the academics business."  

Community and creativity (collaboration and innovation) are the not-all-that new imperatives for education.  All it would take is a small cohort of teachers taking this on...

See below...

Teaching Nonviolence By Building Community In The First Week Of School By Todd Diehl

  

jim  

Be the kind of community you want to see in the world.

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The Metta Center for Nonviolence  "We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Teaching Nonviolence by Building Community in the First Week of School by Todd diehl  It's time to go back to school! As Dr. Gabor Mate explains, "Educators should be in the emotional attachment business before they are in the academics business."   Read the full blog here.  Remembering Howard Zinn, A Historian of Nonviolence by Philip Wight Had he been alive, today would have been Howard Zinn's 90th birthday. For many peace activists, Zinn needs no introduction. His most famous work— A People's History of the United States—has sold over two million copies and continues to offer a much-needed dissenting view of American history.  Read full blog post here. Other Recent Blog Posts at the Metta Center:  • Art as Murder, by Michael Nagler (distributed by Peace Voice)  • Raising the Curtain on "Gandhi Center Stage" by Michael Nagler (written for Tikkun)  • A Scientific Approach to Peace by Stephanie Van Hook (written for local paper, Petaluma Patch)  • Syria: Lamp in the Storm by Michael Nagler (written for Yes! Magazine)  Upcoming Events with the Metta Center:  • Forum for building local peace-teams networks on the weekend of September 14-16 in Portland, Oregon. For more information, visit our website or write to us.  • Carry the Vision conference on nonviolence at Santa Clara University on September 29, 2012. For more information and to register, visit their website.  Would you like to offer a blog series on a nonviolence topic on the Metta website? Pitch us your idea by writing us at  this address.  www.mettacenter.org

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