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Monday #28: The Real Deal

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Last week I attended the third, annual event, The Creative Path Arts in Healing Coalition Conference in Montclair, NJ sponsored by the Healing Arts department of the Morristown Medical Center. This is truly an amazing organization that is doing really important work, … Continue reading →

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Monday #46: What Would You Do?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

This weekend I met Madelyn Kane. She is the aunt of a close friend of mine and we visited her yesterday at her Poconos home. Madelyn, or “Aunt Maddi,” splits her time between the Poconos, Brooklyn and Del Ray Beach … Continue reading →

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Monday #33: Raise Your Hand

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Last week, the NY Times ran an article about the introduction of electronic “clickers” in groups and classrooms, as a replacement for the traditional raising of hands. The article was actually more about how the usage of clickers can be useful … Continue reading →

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Monday #27: Listen Up!

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

Last week I met a friend in New York City for a day of walking and talking in the Big Apple. We hadn’t seen each other in almost a decade and so our day was full of lively conversation as … Continue reading →

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Monday #23: A Journey, Not A Race

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

I saw the independent film, Race To Nowhere, last week.  This film puts our country’s current educational philosophy and practices under a microscope and starkly shows the stressful and joyless results, manifested in children as young as six-years-old, that our … Continue reading →

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Monday #12: Ain’t Misbehavin’

Posted on November 15, 2010 by

These days we spend a lot of time, in our lives and in our schools, trying to figure out how to focus.  From what I can tell, we seem to be very worried that our multi-tasking and multi-media are going … Continue reading →

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