Month: March 2018

Be the Change

Work and play are both words that our educational institutions should embrace. A lot of time is spent working but there is not enough time for play. Play is integral to many things in our development. Having to work too much with little time for play affects how our brains develop. Making the time for both work and play would have such a positive effect on the developing minds of our students. Opening the amazing doors of intelligence is a lot of dedication and hard work that must be done with care.
Being the recipient of an education that was far beneath my intelligence makes me more aware of the great discrepancies that are not being tackled in our schools. Working to change this is my goal in this life.
I have many thoughts on how to stop making our schools the boring places they are for many. Life is too short to not make the most of it. First, educators that want to supervise and babysit must stay at home. Second, the teachers who earnestly want to educate must be honest and must be hard to break down into too many pieces. Teachers that ignite the beautiful passion for learning in their students are the teachers we must fight for.
 
Can we try to find the energy we need to fight for change in our schools? Be the change that makes love for learning grow!
 

Try to Make Waves

 

I think it is about time to stop defaming the sometimes hard to believe intelligence of many non-speaking autistics. Because many cannot communicate in a lot of common ways, people think they are having less intelligence. However, this is not accurate and needs to be made into the misnomer that it is!

Challenging the ideas that are having a lot of weight in education is a complicated thing to do. I need to ask for your help to have my ideas be heard by a lot of people who need to hear them. I have to ask you to start being the needed voice that I do not have.

Start making waves that many people will feel. Be loud and clear about the fact that non-speaking does not mean non-intelligent too. It is shameful that many non-speaking autistics have not been going to school for the education they are capable of but have not been getting. This must be changed now!

Without Love There is Nothing

 

Graciela was able to spend some quality time with her Canadian friend, Jordyn, while he was in town for the Innovations in Education conference. They decided to collaborate on this blog post by writing alternating lines, starting with Graciela’s “There is love in the air.” 

*Please take the time to learn more about Jordyn at https://jordynsrockyjourney.wordpress.com/about/home/

There is love in the air.
Just don’t be a thinker; be a feeler.
When we think, we stop feeling things as they are meant to be felt.
We get in the way of our heart being fulfilled by others and we almost surely dampen our joy.
Love is available to all of us, but some choose not to let it into their hearts.
Can you imagine living your life so closed to others?
When we close ourselves off we stop making the effort to really own our gifts we are supposed to share with others.
Being vulnerable is sometimes scary but we don’t get to always experience the joy if we don’t take the risk.
Risks must be the stepping stone to sure and lovely love that is beautiful.
No great reward ever is because a person believed they were unworthy.
Worthiness is self identified and must be the number one quality on your many lists.
You are worthy. Believe it. Now go be vulnerable with the one you want in your life because the payoff is magical.