Kaleidoscope
From the desk of Susie Fahrer
The Rainbow Seven Domains™
Director’s Welcome
What matters now
This is the question we, as educators and parents, have to ask ourselves over and over, "What qualities will our children need in order to be prepared for the future?" Gary Hamel, author of What Matters...
Learn to Play; Play to Learn
"The old ways of learning are unable to keep up with our rapidly changing world,"is one of the premises of A New Culture of Learning, by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. We know that when children...
Olympics for Geeks
Did you know Rainbow Mountain has an Odyssey of the Mind team? Odyssey of the Mind has been described as "Olympics for Geeks" (Geek being an affectionate term these days.) Kids form teams and...
Tell All Your Friends
Rainbow Mountain Children's School has grown slowly and steadily since 2007, my first year as director. However, I have never seen anything like what we have been experiencing over the last few months....
The word of the day is “home.”
City Councilman, Gordon Smith, centered with the fifth/sixth grade class this morning. After lighting the candle and opening with three breaths, the seven directions, and greeting one another with...
Do you remember how to fly?
The highlight of my week is leading fourth grade centering every Friday. Nine and ten year olds are teetering between the imaginal realms of childhood and the rational existence the grown-up world has...
Changing consciousness
Why do human beings have a desire to change their consciousness? This is one of the questions explored in our middle school substance prevention class today. Drugs are one method of changing...
Rainbow is home.
Yesterday I returned from a trip back to my hometown of "Lake Wobegone" in Minnesota. Besides visiting my folks, I saw Garrison Keillor perform Prairie Home Companion live. After spending four days in...
All I See Is Part of Me
Teachers' new role is to help children feel a part of nature. Here is how one Rainbow Mountain teacher does it: http://theclassroomnaturalist.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/all-i-see-is-part-of-me/