February 22, 2025

Quote of the Week

"What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow." - James Stephens

Stirring A Child's Imagination

How do we imagine our own imaginations, and how do we want to befriend them, honor them, bring them into relationship with other kinds of vision? How do your hands express your imagination? When are our imaginations friendly, and when do they amplify our worries in ways that are not useful? How do we feed our imaginations? What kind of metaphoric food and real music do we want to give them?

These are the kind of questions that Ruth Gendler explores with school students while nurturing their imagination. She believes that what we imagine is a kind of inner/outer seeing; it comes in before it goes out. The eye of the imagination is the eye of the heart looking into the secrets of the soul, illuminating the hidden sources of beauty, then looking out toward the edge of vision. [Read More]

Reading Corner

Title: Every Child Can - Riverside School's Design-Led Approach to Empowering Children
By: Kiran Bir Sethi, Mohan Gudipati, Apoorva Bhandari
For: Educators and Parents

Every Child CAN shares the story of Riverside School, a uniquely innovative school that places the focus of developing a child's agency and character at the heart of education.

Through a rich collection of lived experiences and case studies, the book introduces readers to how Riverside has leveraged the design process to rework and reimagine every aspect of how a school should function, from pedagogy, teacher-training, time-tabling, to parent-school relationships, school and community engagements.

The book reveals some ground-breaking ideas, tools, processes and practices based on the design process that went into building Riverside, a school that encourages confident, empowered and humane citizens with an I CAN mindset.

Be the Change

List down one aspect of your life that you'd like to change. Now, close your eyes and reimagine how your life would look like if you had made that change. Open your eyes and make a list of actions you can take that are under your control to make this change happen. Do at-least one of them, no matter how small a step it is.