The child's heart awakens

and is  a Gold Fountain

Spilling forth rainbows

and silver dreams

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let us tenderly water each delicate leaf

each song each climb

each dance each drawing

each jump each smile

each word each wing

that lifts into our hearts 

asking for light

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let us as teachers

glow for them too

like the Sun

raying forth story and song

the love of a life lived long

so their imaginations 

may take flight

into flower and blossom 

within a forest lush and singing and kind

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I am an artist-teacher. Co-creation, collaboration, experimentation, improvisation: each of these mentalities describes my approach to teaching as an art form. The teacher, child, parent and environment are not separate, but linked like interwoven colors of a rainbow tapestry.

 

A rich and abundant life arises out of the harmonious co-creation of the Sun, heavens and Earth. So too, does a rich space radiating with the love of experimentation, play and learning depend upon the strength of our collaborations as children, teachers, parents and communities.

 

As an artist, I desire to facilitate a warm, creative space that inspires and nurtures each child both inwardly and outwardly. The sense of light, the intentional preparation of materials, sounds and music, colors and texture, an attitude of wonder and inquiry, an atmosphere of love and support; a rich and nurturing environment is essential to life-filled learning.  And as a process-driven artist myself, I enjoy cultivating space for children to meander down long and unpredictable paths of their own making, without any attachment to product. 

 

As a teacher, I desire not to direct the child/student, but to provide the supports necessary for the child/student to come to her own meaning.  Each child holds within them their own universe of knowing; at birth, each child's unique destiny spreads forth like a vast rainbow ocean, incapable of replication. Thus, as teachers we are simply guides, breathing in and breathing out, stepping in and stepping out, giving and receiving, cultivating the symmetry of relationship; learner and teacher are one.

 

 

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