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Direct Experience in the Feeling Years --- NEW

An experience in John Orlowski's 4th-6th grade class

Taking our whole curriculum outside the classroom is one of my greatest pleasures in teaching at Ananda Living Wisdom School. Poetry, creative writing, and art projects come alive when they are experienced in the heart of nature. more...

Focusing Attention

by Hridaya Atwell

In the first newsletter I gave examples of how Living Wisdom teachers help awaken enthusiasm in students through experiences in nature. With this edition we’ll “flow into” examples of helping students focus attention.more...

Awakening Enthusiasm

by Hridaya Atwell, co-director Ananda LWS

If you want to inspire children to learn something, love it, and retain it for future use, first find a way to awaken their enthusiasm, then guide them in focusing their attention, next, give them a direct experience, and finally, allow them to share their inspiration. more...

 

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Making Living Wisdom School a Special Place to Be

Interview with Koda

Often some of the school’s best friends and supporters are the parents of the students; in this issue we would like to highlight one of our parents and neighbors, Koda Sun. His older boy Jahsa attended a number of years back; his younger son Jaiya began with us in the 2nd grade and is now in 10th grade. more...

 

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A Year on the Ice --- NEW

Nalini Snell

Of the multitude of experiences in nature throughout my entire life, my year living in Antarctica was the most impactful on many levels and by far the most extreme.  The highest, driest, coldest, most remote continent on the planet offered me an unparalleled experience of the raw power and pure pristine beauty of nature. more...

Transformation in the Wilderness --- NEW

Kai Girard

My early memories of the Ananda LWS include outdoor pursuits that were many and varied. From exploring rivers and caves, to canoe trips and making fires in the rain with Tim Tschantz and summer days at Pubble Pond, Bridgeport or Mushroom Hole, the foothills gave us the opportunity to be outside in so many ways. more...

 

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Flow Learning Inspirations --- NEW

Interview with J. Bharat Cornell

Joseph Bharat Cornell, a member of Ananda Community for 35 years, is one of the most inspiring nature educators in the world today. His first book, Sharing Nature with Children, sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education and became a classic. His six Sharing Nature Books have been translated into twenty languages more...

Making Living Wisdom School a Special Place to Be

An Interview with Brian Powers

A School could have no better friend than Brian (Bajrang) Powers. Interviewing him for this section was, for me, extremely uplifting. His enthusiasm and ability to incorporate the Education for Life principles into his projects, classes, and adventures with students is endlessly inspiring. more...