Facing the Future

I love the curriculum guides that help teachers of all age groups teach Global Sustainability, Biodiversity, Interconnection of All Things, Life-Size Math, Social Responsibility, and SELF-EMPOWERMENT!

I adapt a Kindergarten Curriculum guide to preschool and use the 4 lessons to theme 4 phases of our school year. It's really great for that, and I'm showing others how I do that at the Washington Association for the Education of Young Children Conference.

I also get excited when I think of how it is now that more and more children are being taught by teachers supported by these materials at least once in their school career.

Teachers are compassionately supported and the situations with testing and standards, reporting study focus and areas is fully accounted for in the materials. Avoiding testing and still being able to really accurately report what a child's understanding of the materials is is a feat. These Curriculum guides build a curriculum students love that invited them to do projects in such a way, that the teacher can easily evaluate the level of comprehension of the many learning opportunities/angles/skills offered by a single lesson. It's like putting on glasses and being able to see clearly for a particular aspect, whether a student 'gets' it, or whether they are challenged by it. And then putting on different glasses for another aspect, to focus on it. And different glasses again, enabling teachers to evaluate with precision and compassion, through asking themselves simple questions and filling in answers in the tables provided in the Curriculum guide.

There are materials to copy right out of the book, lyrics to songs and links to where to find them online for free, places to suggest to the students who are hungry for more information (they get hungry with these appetizing lessons!) and exercises that put the student central and in power in the world.

I simply can't say enough about good things about it!

http://www.facingthefuture.org