What We Know
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

What We Know

It would be so lovely to move closer and hang on each word. We know that each word is like a jewel and this shared moment is cluster of diamonds. Their ideas have depth and insight, but mostly they have joy, and we can't even hear them! 

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Legacies
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

Legacies

Each year, the outgoing Tracks class rallies and gifts something to the school. These are usually gifts that are inspired by the play and interests of the children or things that we as parents and teachers have learned over the course of a year scaffolding the children. 

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From this, future stewards grow.
Lesley Romanoff Lesley Romanoff

From this, future stewards grow.

The idea that children will wreck things is very much part of the adult-world view (not all adults, of course, but many). This is something that trails us when we visit the adult-world of art museums and it also follows us into the forest.

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Transformation
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Transformation

Walk towards challenges rather than away and there will be creative growth. That sounds so easy when written here, but we all know that living IN the friction is no easy task. It wears you down, it tires you out, and even worse, it distracts and detracts from seeing successes and observing that yellow spot transforming into the greater thing that is the Sun.

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What I Learned in Kindergarten
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What I Learned in Kindergarten

I remember sitting at the edge of my teacher’s desk watching her eat an apple. Not watching, staring, I am sure of it now. Mrs. Madsen ate the whole apple. The whole apple! Except for the seeds. She held out these seeds in the palm of her hand and said, “Now, these will be for more apples."

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