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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

-Howard Thurmond

Blog#16 A Healing Story: The Tower of Truth

December 15, 2020 Howard Schrager

In my last first grade class I had two girls who were best of friends, but they were always coming…

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Blog#14 Passport To Mathematics and The 48 Club

November 19, 2020 Howard Schrager

Nothing lends itself to rhythmical movement activities like the times tables. The times tables, after all, are fundamentally rhythmical and…

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Blog#13 Educulture 1

September 6, 2020 Howard Schrager

  Teaching Through Art  There is widespread recognition that art is a wonderful amendment to what schools can offer to children’s learning experience.…

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Blog#12 Educoercion

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In subsequent blogs I hope to focus less on what is wrong with our educational system and more on what…

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Blog #11 A Bunch of Stuff

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A BUNCH OF STUFF I’ve asked many high school graduates what their school experience was like. The most common answer…

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Blog#10 the little letters

May 15, 2020 Howard Schrager Leave a comment

An Imaginative Way To Introduce The Lower Case Letters One fine afternoon the Big Letters got all dressed up and…

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Blog #9 The Wookey Hole

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The Wookey Hole The Wookey Hole is a limestone cavern in the Cheddar region of southwest England. ‘Wookey’ is derived…

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Blog #8The Little Raindrop

May 14, 2020 Howard Schrager Leave a comment

This nature story has been in my files since I first became a Waldorf teacher in 1981. It is a…

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Blog#7

March 7, 2019 Howard Schrager Leave a comment

The Imaginative Field Below is the poem from LMNOP and All the Letters A to Z representing the letter M: Misty…

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Blog#6

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First Efforts It is with the last words of my previous blog in mind that I share the results of…

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