Reflecting On Teacher Relationships
Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below. I stand before you heavy-hearted and tentative to let go of my second and last child who will graduate high school in just a few weeks time. Like other parents, I know that with an impending high school graduation, it is a nostalgic time charged with diverse and conflicting emotions. I feel joyful. I feel tearful. I feel...
The Global Search for Education: Campus Talk
The aim of “Campus” is to allow experts on a diverse range of topics, from neuroscience to eating disorders to cyber-bullying, to share perspectives with educators. “Campus,” an idea born in Finland (the top ranking country in education according to recent international comparisons), is an exclusive professional seminar for all New York City public school teachers that will be held this Saturday, May 4th...
The Global Search for Education: Finland — Ticks
“Laboratory reports on Lyme Borreliosis cases (based on positive serology) have doubled in 10 years.” — Jarmo Oksi Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to humans via a tick bite. The CDC (Center for Disease Control) claims that Lyme Borreliosis is the most common and fastest growing infectious illness in the United States. The disease can cause a variety of flu-like symptoms such as fever, achy...
The Global Search for Education: The Netherlands and Ticks
“If chronic or persistent Lyme disease exists, we will need more than antibiotics for treatment. Anti-inflammatory components or anti-cytokine treatment will be options.” — Dr. Leo Joosten Lyme (Borreliosis), Anaplasmosis /Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Bartonella, Tularemia, and more recently, Borrelia miyamotoi (a distant relative of Lyme Borreliosis) are recognized tick-borne...
ALICE – The Legacy
Judi Dench and Ruby Bentall in the World Premiere of Peter and Alice “So long as men can breathe and eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.” – William Shakespeare Alice Liddell Hargreaves died on November 16, 1934, but her legacy — and its inextricable link to Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland tales — refuses to die. Who was the little girl that inspired...
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