Reflections of the week and moving forward in commitment as a Montessori ABAR (Anti Bias Anti Racism) Multiage Early Education School:
Our Klahanie School daily practices will remain focused on building daily, as a collective group: Respect, Equity, Justice, Peace & Collaboration to Harmony and Love. This week we decided as a staff to begin a Gratitude Sharing when friends go beyond what is asked of them to help and support another in school and environment, and when that is reported and/or observed, a note will be created for our “kindness mailbox” we will read at the end of the day during our daily gratitude round, and send home with friends who can share with family about their Kindness Shared.
The habitat of kindness we create here at Klahanie School is our commitment to our daily work-practice, one step at a precious time to showcase the kindness, explorations of the past, cultures locally, nationally and globally and ancestors, the thoughtfulness of observations and movements to celebrate when a person sensory intakes and thinks about the larger group to share, to collaborate, to find joy and fun together into innovations and independent society co-created in the classroom and hopefully imprinted neurological pathway to utilize further down the learning road. We build a better world in each simple and tiny footed, hand held stepping forward practice towards respect, accountability, ability to sit in the discomforts of resolutions, and reflection on how to do things differently next time or repeated results. We are our own lab for peace building one sensory, learning moment and movement at a time.
We as a school celebrate you all and the love you share with your children and the community we collectively tend together, and are here to shore up in times of angst or uncertainties. Our school commitment is to have consistency and presence of kindness, empathy, availability and warmth. The focus is on the now and on the youth of all age scope we love so dearly and a consistent commitment to serve and support. Our kindness ship will support and anchor us safely during the larger, rougher waters. We got this, together in held hands.
To the light we all shine on each other, great respect and kindnesses shown to all,
Klahanie School teachers
Some quotes that might soothe:
The culture wants you to be apathetic and not to be engaged. So I encourage anybody who feels angry to not let that have you check out, but have you invest and be a part of this conversation. Again, our phones are not a reproduction of real life…. If you show up in that courtroom in the middle of the day during boring times, things can change. There’s still so much of this country that is based on the boring parts of governance that the people who show up and speak out can affect. Outside of that, I think ‘touch grass’ is not terrible advice. If you’ve got a kid, talk to your child. … I even feel myself just getting into this loop — this anger loop, this binary loop, this political loop — that really is hard to break your head from. It doesn’t mean you disengage, but it means you understand the wider world outside. Those have been my recipes for finding a little bit of sanity in this chaotic time. ~Jordan Klepper
Dr. Maria Montessori quotes:
Education is the best weapon for peace.
Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.
The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction.
Our care of the children should be governed not by the desire to ‘make them learn things’, but by the endeavour always to keep burning within them the light which is called intelligence.
Children are so responsive that if you treat your child with kindness and consideration he too will be kind. If you let him pursue his own little affairs and interests undisturbed, you will find that he will be less inclined to disturb yours.
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