Category Archives: Dear Touchstone Community

Finding Our Voices – January 6, 2011

Dear TCS Community, On the last day before our winter break, I visited each class to read Shel Silverstein’s wise and wiseacre poem, “The Bear, The Fire, and The River.” It’s about the ironies of cycles of fear (the bear … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays – December 16, 2010

Dear TCS Community, In our community meeting last week, I asked us to name the other holidays that happen around this time of the year. We had some standard answers: Dewali, Chanukah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa. Then we had some … Continue reading

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The Learning Revolution – December 9, 2010

Dear TCS Community, Over the weekend, I watched another thought-provoking affirmation of Touchstone’s progressive education—in the form of Sir Ken Robinson’s latest TED talk, “Bring on the Learning Revolution,” filmed in February 2010 in Pasadena and posted in May 2010. … Continue reading

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