The Thriving Tree – Canon Exploratory Compass Communication
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Skip to content School Culture by Kelly Albrecht, Principal “But when a child is doing something that she is passionately interested in, she grows like a tree—in all directions. This is how children learn, how children grow. They send down a taproot like a tree in dry soil. The tree may be stunted but it sends out these roots, and suddenly one of these little taproots grows down and strikes a source of water. And the whole tree grows.” This quote by John Holt from his book “Learning All the Time” speaks to me because of what it says about how we learn and what the role of our schools…
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