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
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
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