Follow the journey to place the creativity back into education.

Sunday 21 June 2015

A coach in every school



A 3P Coach in every school…mental health for all.

A coach in every school for children and youth to aspire and achieve...to hold their dreams and try them out
I work in schools across the North of England and I constantly hear of concerns for children's well being. Sometimes families are stretched to capacity or are cash poor, employment stark and really struggling. Where school could fill that gap, schools now have to juggle test results with providing family support to enable children to succeed. In those families with intense needs, specialist professions and their service provision are in short supply. IMAGINE... a child in need of someone to notice their dreams, no matter how small a spark...
I want to know how passionate you are … about helping children
I want to know if and why you are … 

I want to know what drew you to this dream –to have a coach in every school.

For me, it is laughter in every heart, sharing an understanding of the way we stay in great shape mentally. An understanding of our thinking and the way we can create our lives- the infinite possibilities of childhood , a child's right to understand that they can access mental well being at any time at all and that this is already within them.



True BUZZ Coaching for Children & Youth is like a stem cell, embryonic, the beginning of an idea pointing to truth, to wisdom in the heart of all schools. It symbolises an opportunity to the synergy of life and the place of infinite possibility. It is a’ moving toward’ motion … moving toward a different way of being in the classroom, in learning and exploring. An understanding of the inside out nature of the way we are

It is a place to explore, get down, dive deep, and be as curious as ANY child or student can be with a greater awareness of this understanding. A place and time where mistakes are signposts towards growth. It is an infinite invitation to touch the essence of humanity from the earliest school days to the last.  It is a redefining of school and of education from a tiny spark of possibility towards sublime freedom to learn. To truly learn about our being and invite an understanding of our mind.

HOW? As 3P facilitators and coaches we need to grab the narrow spotlight beam focusing only on one part of a child's education and swing it completely full circle, a full 360 degrees worth… lighting young lives and expanding all the way across the globe.  Would you like to know more?
Please contact me through my web page www.annipoole.com

A young teenager Ardora (http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak#t-9693) says it is:

“…imperative to create opportunities for children so they can blow us away”

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A young teenager Ardora (http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak#t-9693) says it is:

“…imperative to create opportunities for children so they can blow us away”

Monday 9 February 2015

#HER A Graceful Revolution in Education is Rising!


I want to create a revolution!

 


An education revolution!

An inspiring education revolution.

What does to educate mean to you? What was your experience of e d u c a t i o n?

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I love to learn - to explore and investigate. I am naturally inquisitive as we all are.

 I grew up in a local education system where girls were not allowed to learn physics. We did needlework and I was so furious at this ban that I took it out on my sewing abilities and I won a prize! I later taught myself physics because I had a Dad who supported me from his own knowledge and a Mum who took me to the library. This was my education at home. I became a teacher because I am passionate about learning and discovering. 

This isn't a rant or rail against the whole of our education 'system' each and every one of us could do that. Whether you are a parent, teacher, leader, governor, or policy maker, or pupil...each of us could list negative aspects of what went wrong and is still wrong. I have friends who educate their children at home; friends whose children do not match the current model of their peers and are labelled or diagnosed. I am a teacher. I find this imposed conformity to a politically set agenda like quick sand. Dangerous, particularly with the incoming tide.

This is not a war cry. It is a call to create T B E S I T W

 


 The Best Education System in the Whole Wide World, for our kids today.

HOW?

We could start by gathering together. Sharing our hopes. Supporting this cause.

We already know what we don't want (we don't want to continue with this outdated industrial revolution mechanical system or a politically compliant system- jumping through inspection hoops; nor do we applaud the current heavily focused  test driven system, teaching pass or fail.) We want to allow our professionals in the classroom the space to explore with kids.

What we do want is a creative open WORLD CLASS system where individuality is encouraged; where learning  EXPLORES, INVESTIGATES, CREATES great thinking, CREATES great world class kids ...AND... invites only WORLD CLASS TEACHERS who love their job and are allowed to get on with exploring in the classroom.

In the words of Sir John Jones we are at the threshold of great change WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE 'Threshold Adventurers'. In the UK we have a new curriculum allowing us to be more creative. A new curriculum almost set up to fail because the political focus remains firmly on tests. Such tests narrow down our curriculum lending higher importance to 3 core subjects. I love science- it's my passion. I might scrape through this narrow testing and it would prove statistically well for the government. What about my passion, my aptitude. Would I have become a headteacher had the curriculum been so narrow in my primary school? I wanted to be an astronaut then. When I was ten, I had dreams not test scores

We need to rally together with our positivity- our mind sets of possibility through you as great parents; your great kids and through visionary professionals; together we can raise the volume and transform this educational straight jacket into creative freedom. We need a radical new focus upon the things that matter most, creativity, individualism and the best possible opportunities for learning. Together we can be the one energy to shift the focus to a new more organic paradigm

I love the work of Sir Ken Robinson, a true visionary, delivering a clear message of the need for a revolutionary movement in education TODAY.

We want to be able to personalise our curriculum for the children we teach and for the leaders who inspire. WE have such diversity of talent in our places of learning; we have different aptitudes and passions to ignite our spirit. These are becoming lost in a world of testing and a focus on results. Testing must be diagnostic and not a way to divide our children into pass or fail. "A three year old is not half a six year old!" Quoted Sir Ken. Teachers chose this as a creative vocation- they are stifled or tired. Do we want our teachers to be under par in the classroom?

  Every school is unique; every school is creative. Children deserve to have room for their hope and dreams. Let's rally together online and create one voice-calling for a new educational paradigm- a different focus than just testing.

 

It is time to allow professionals to truly run their schools as the nurseries of great talent and for Ofsted to support and challenge this creativity championing the child not just the data. It's time to turn on the faucet and see the return of a full flow. The flow of passion for learning professionally supported not politically straight jacketed.

Sir Ken talks of us changing metaphor...

...From an industrial manufacturing model based on conformity and linearity, to an organic approach (like farming). Where children and young people can flourish because schools can create the right conditions for growth.

Let's start the organic revolution in education. We can take this to our politicians and tell them we want to have a change of paradigm, a radical shift in educational thinking.

Are you in?


#HER (help education rise) if you agree

 

Sunday 25 January 2015

Parlour Post #the cycle of love

Point zero is a place of none existence. An omnipotent reference perhaps? Is this where that greater intelligence exists, or is existence already beyond the point?


Children have a love that is wholly unconditional. Their point zero. They are pure love... until we take this love and mould it within our belief. We change it little by little as a sculptor would with their creation, the child is also becoming our creation and not their true self.

It is in misunderstanding how much we affect that small life as parents, teachers, doctors, bus drivers, that we create such an impact...when was the last time you smiled at a child for no reason?

When we search into the azure blue of a winter sky, striped and dashed with vapour trails, what do we see? Do we see the beauty, the gift of atmosphere, the wonder of flight-or just sky? Every morning I wake and throw open my bedroom window to remind myself of the world of miracles. Everyday 'ordinary miracles' as Michael Neill names them. The miracle of light and bird song; the miracle of trees, birds, the movement and feel of air. Just in that moment I am the sculptor, the creator of my day. The point zero. And I am grateful to have reached a moment to see this beauty and to feel the excitement of its opportunity.

Children experience the miracle of every second from this place. They wonder. They investigate. They explore with an open heart and eyes like saucers. They receive the most views when posted online because of their innocence and unconditional love.

Later they are seasoned, taught duality; taught conditionally; taught to fear. All in the name of love and safety. Can we teach from conditional love?

How?

When was the last time you smiled at a child for no reason?

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A quote from www.theboothbyinstitute.com.
If this were the last second you had any guarantee of, what would you be doing?
Why aren't you doing that?
This is the only second we have.
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Please remember you are loved without condition!