Aug 15, 2010 
Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons — she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with unexpected results.
Do yourself and the world a favor: align your life with your passion
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No Comments In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.
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THE HOBART SHAKESPEAREANS is a delightful profile of one phenomenal teacher and his eager students who together touchingly demonstrate the power of education.
On the Right Track Early
Sir Ian McKellan visits the Hobart Shakespeareans
Ian McKellan visits a Hobart Elementary School class and shares his love of Shakespeare with the children. The actor and preteens exchange dramatic verses of Hamlet in the following scene from THE HOBART SHAKESPEAREANS, a charming portrayal of an exceptional teacher and his eager students who together, touchingly demonstrate the power of education. With genuine passion, Rafe Esquith turns underprivileged and at risk youth of central Los Angeles on to the wonders of Shakespeare.
Five Dangerous Things
by Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School
The Tinkering School is a summer program that teaches kids to build things. How to raise kids to be creative, competent, and in control of the environment around them.
What kind of danger, real or wildly overestimated, were you exposed to as a kid?
Was it worth the risk?
Dave Eggers is an author, publisher, and education activist.
In 1998 Dave launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States. He has extended his advocacy of students by supporting their educators, instituting a monthly grant for exceptional Bay Area teachers.
For more information on Dave’s program and to find out how you can creatively support local public schools, visit http://onceuponaschool.org/
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