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From the desk of Susie Fahrer
The Rainbow Seven Domains™
Director’s Welcome
Awaken!
Executive Director, Renee Owen are volunteering to present the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium at Rainbow Mountain Saturday, November 6, from 10am to 5pm. FREE! Bring a pot luck dish. Students are...
Changing the Education Paradigm
Here is a terrific lecture with animation that talks about where public education is today; how it got there, and what needs to change. Interestingly, all of the solutions are exactly what we already do...
Time Stands Still
When I dropped by our second grade classroom this morning, I was invited to stay for Centering. For a moment, I hesitated to accept the teacher's invitation, then did. Slipping off my shoes and sitting...
Great Expectations
How do we gauge how much to expect from our child?  For example, by the age of ten, my expectations of my oldest daughter were very adult-like, but every once in a while I would catch a glimpse...
I need you to……
Social and emotional intelligence is the key to successful friendships, relationships, and careers. As we learn to develop new communication habits as adults, hopefully, our children will learn from our example, and they won’t have to unlearn poor habits later on. Compassionate communication techniques help adults and children solve conflict effectively.
Does your child have ADHD?
It’s on the radio, in the news…and in the classroom. We hear about ADD and ADHD on a regular basis, and it’s a very controversial topic. Does it even exist? Is it new or has it always existed? Is it caused by media exposure? Diet? Pollution? Given the list of symptoms, one wonders if half the population or more is on the attention deficient disorder spectrum. If so many people really have it, is it even a disorder? Rainbow Mountain teacher recently spend a whole day learning how to better identify traits of ADHD and how to serve children with attention issues in the classroom.
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
A little girl from a public school was telling a little girl who attends Rainbow Mountain Children's School that she has a principal at her school. The Rainbow child boasted, "We don't have a principal...
Inspiration
The first week of school is always inspiring. Yesterday I received a wonderful note from the parent of two students at Rainbow: This evening my kids were telling me about their day in front of a...