As the leaves fall and the temperatures drop, I know I'm noticing the places around me that offer warmth. We went on a cold walk yesterday to draw branches and the children were so ready to come in to warm up they suggested skipping recess and going directly back to the classroom. But I'm seeing inner warmth in so many places, too; the teachers next door who have offered hugs of encouragement, the way my class all spontaneously lay on their bellies and stretched their hands to meet when we learned a new song about roots, exclaiming, "Look, our roots are all connected!"
Just a reminder that we'll all have an opportunity to participate in The Final Word Protocol with the Roland Barth article, so please look over both the article and the protocol in advance. I'm also still looking for a presenter so we can further explore protocols to deepen our work. If you have some curriculum to fine-tune, a question you want to explore or a dilemma you want some insight into, please let me know so we can talk briefly this weekend or early next week to plan.
If you weren't able to join us last time, the poem we used to begin our work was Where the Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore and we participated in a Consultancy Protocol about a question Deborah has been thinking about in her classroom. Copies of the handouts should have been delivered to your boxes on Friday if you've attended a meeting or are subscribed to the CFG website--please let me know if you didn't receive one and would like to.
Until Wednesday,
Kirstin
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