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Gifts of Nature
September 18th, 2020Time in nature is not leisure time; it’s an essential investment in our children’s health (and also, by the way, in our own) ~ Richard Louv I would rather see children with a handful of compost or mud than with their hands wrapped around an iPad or telephone and staring at the screen. When I think […]
Read MoreMVM Return to School Plans
July 21st, 2020In the last two weeks, MVM has released its 2020-2021 return to school plans, Advance Action and Return to School Objective. MVM admin and faculty have been working diligently to ensure we have the appropriate protocols, strategies, and equipment in place for students and employees to safely physically return to school for the 2020-2021 school year. The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly advocates “all […]
Read MoreToo Much Stuff?
October 3rd, 2019Lost and Found There was probably a time when Lost and Found was an appropriate name for the pile of clothing, lunchboxes, socks, water bottles, and other miscellaneous items sitting at the bottom of the stairs. As I travel up and down to the Community Room, my attention is often drawn to the growing pile, […]
Read MoreTransitions
August 29th, 2019Here we go … back to school! The one thing we can always count on is change. No matter how hard we try to keep things the same, change happens. We begin, we finish, and we begin again. From birth onward, we experience continuous physical change. Mental, emotional and spiritual change occurs in tandem as […]
Read MoreThe 7 C’s
April 13th, 2018It’s Spring – or at least it is trying to be Spring! I find this is a good time of year to pull the 7 C’s out of the closet and freshen up my thinking. I started using different versions of the 7 C’s over 20 years ago when I read an article about Mihaly […]
Read MoreThe Courtesy of Connection
December 1st, 2017
Shaking hands is a wonderful way to begin and end the day! Beginning at 8:30 I shake at least 15 primary hands, 20 if you include miscellaneous parents, and if the adolescents happen to come down the sidewalk when I am greeting the primary students out on the curb, add 30 more. The toddlers don’t […]
Read MoreWe Appreciate When We Participate
November 20th, 2017
Daily life at MVM is very busy and industrious. If you haven’t been at school between 9:30 and 11:00, you should consider coming. This is when all the action takes place. Sometimes, if I am very quiet and still, I can feel the soft vibration of everyone “doing”. Whether we are working independently side by […]
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