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A Basic Education It
is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy and creative expression
and knowledge. Everyone agrees that: teachers are an important
presence in our culture. Pick a community activity of import, a
cause of societal and often global impact, and you're bound to find
a teacher or educator at the core. Educators, as a group, are concerned
with fundamental human issues and have an impact in our culture
that goes beyond their current students. If we are to have peace,
we must teach our children in the spirit of peaceful interaction
and the many possibilities before them. Candace Hanley, Executive
Director of the Foundation, and the Trustees selected teachers as
the group which might best impact their communities and have a powerful
'ripple effect' toward peace. As such, Lifespring devoted a series of its
foundation trainings to be available specifically for teachers.
The Foundation opened its doors to those educators wishing to explore
the possibilities available in their role as teachers, and celebrate
their commitment to a world of possibilities. What impact has their experience had
on them as individuals, as teachers with their students, in their
families, and in their professional development? We asked graduates
of the Lifespring Educators Basic from around the country what they
found valuable in their experience of the Training. What we took
away from these conversations was a sense of committed aliveness
and real enthusiasm for what they learned and what they now have
to offer their students and others in their lives. |
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