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Our vision is to found a Kindergarten through 5th grade public charter school, opening in 2013, which brings the advantages of a Waldorf style education to Northeast Los Angeles.
We are calling for participants willing to strategize, collaborate and give skills and time to help us
make it happen.

Change of mind.

Posted: April 22nd, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Child mental health, Education Policy, events, K-12 curriculum, Parenting | No Comments »

TODAY’S CULTURE is increasingly interested in mental fitness. Yet, despite the staggering amount of new information in the popular media about children’s healthy brain development, the data is not being applied practically in most K-12 schools’ curriculum or methods of teaching.  The result, says an educational psychologist, are “escalating rates of learning and behavioral disorders”.   “Crisis in the Kindergarten” tells us even the youngest have an opinion.

Yes. Dr. Jane Healy‘s research suggests to her that the pressure curriculum of today’s one-size fits all classroom “can be the cause of learning disorders”.

To effect a change of the world’s mind about how to educate children for mental health Waldorf educators are teaming up with various colleges, universities and childhood mental health organizations in the Sacramento area to put on a day-long workshop by an educational psychologist,  Dr. Jane Healy, based on her new book, “Different Minds”, called “Developing Creative Minds: How Genes, Brains, Homes and Schools Interact to Help Children Succeed (or not)”.

Details here.

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