Step inside Where the View is Panoramic Flying 30,000 feet above the ground offers a perspective of blurred parameters, non-existent or formless boundaries, no distinctions,Read More »Step inside Where the View is Panoramic
Compassionate Presence “How May I Serve You?” Dr. Lori Desautels Marian University Education and learning are as natural to us as breathing. It simply occursRead More »Compassionate Presence/ Are we Preparing Students to Live Outside the Walls of Schools?
Research reports when educators integrate self-reflection into their instructional practices, expanded, empathetic, and enriched teaching and learning processes occur. I am so excited to shareRead More »Self-Reflections Separate Good Teaching from Superior Teaching
lori-TED Talk As I prepare for the TED X INDY presentation three weeks from now, I am overcome by a deeply felt brokenness, observing soRead More »Breaking Open and Feeling Felt!
The Neuroscience of Learning & Sustained Attentive Focus J&J_PRE_CON_Handout-2.pdfpresented by Neuroscience of Emotion and Learning & The Video Game Model for Motivation, Mindset, and MemoryRead More »Neuroscience of Learning/ Dr. Judy Willis Hand-Outs for School of Education Conference, “Thinking Beyond the Boundaries Through Social and Emotional Learning”
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A Tribute to Educators and Parents and to the Paradoxes They Meet Each Day The sun was beaming this afternoon as cumulus clouds scattered vicariouslyRead More »Cheers to Parents and Educators as We Enter into a New School Year
21st Century Minds In yesterday’s Indianapolis Star, Dr. Plucker from Indiana University did an excellent job in reporting the positive assessment trends encouraging Hoosiers to feel excitedRead More »21st Century Minds
After reading the article on the number of state and district waivers allocated over the past couple of years, I have a few thoughts, likeRead More »High School Graduation and the Use of Waivers
I love when readers from all professions, not just education, explore their thinking, their own childhoods, ask the questions allowing many perspectives and possibilities as viableRead More »A Response to “The Creativity Post’s,” The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience