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Children deserve to be welcomed into the world of knowledge. There is no reason why rigorous study cannot be laced with fun. I imagine schools of the future as circular rather than hierarchical, community-nourished rather than individualistic. We can reimagine teaching and learning from art forms that have been regenerated through community process. For example, the art of Capoeira happens in a roda, or in the round. It is knit together through intergenerational relationships and performed through movement and call and response singing. Capoeiristas learn the history and geography from improvising in a ritual structure. Our bodies skim the floor and become airborne through spins and inversions, all this during healthful teaching and learning.
ComptonCaliforniaUnited-statesKoreatownSouth-carolinaMckinley-elementary-schoolBrazilLos-angelesSpainCaliforniansAmericaSpanishwe deal with our teachers an ensure that the highest performers are actually recognized and rewarded in the proper way, then we're never going to get more great people into the profession. >> one of the things he said last night strikes me as being very similar to what we heard in "waiting for "superman"". >> we need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the super bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair. >> how do we transform our society, our culture to make it cool to be, you know, a nerd, someone who studies hard, someone who reads rather than just the most popular athlete. >> yeah, well if you look at the way that our school cultures are set up. on a friday night when there's a football game, you get hundreds and hundreds of people coming to watch those particular students and perform. but when we have a spelling bee or we have a science fair, we
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