A - autonomy - (where every child can be their authentic self together with others), authentic, active, adventurous, awareness,
B - brain, balance, being, becoming, brave, bloom, belonging
C - curiosity, care, complexity, collective, choice, change, creative, community, compassion, collaboration
D - democratic, dialogue, daring, dynamic
E - empower, empathy, equity, engaging, enchantment,
F - facilitation, fair, flow, flexibility, fulfillment
G - gratitude, genuine, generous
H - holistic, hopeful, healthy
I - Imagination, Interaction, inclusion, Indigenous, interconnectedness, intrinsic, intuitive, inspiration, inquisitive
J - joy, justice
K - knowledge, kind
L - listening, Love, learning, loose parts, look closely, listen deeply,
M - meaningful, messing-about, mwe (me and we), mindful, motivating
N - nature, noticing, nurturing
O -observation, optimistic, open, opportunities
P - play, play-responsive, playwork, phronesis, play-ecosystem, positive, proactive, possibilities, permission
Q - questions (rather than seeking just answers - we seek great questions)
R - reflection, risk, reciprocity, relationships, respect, rhyzomatic, responsible, response-able
S - self-regulation, sensory, social justice, storytelling, sensitive, sustainable, slow down, self-esteem,
T - time, teaching, third-teacher, togetherness, trust, tradition, thoughtful
U - understanding, unhurried, upstanding, unbiased
V - visibly invisible, valued (equally), vulnerable, versatile
W - wonder, well-being, welcoming
X - xenial (means warm and welcoming)
Y - yes (this is something I want to try)
Z - zingy
Maybe I will spend some coming posts exploring some of these words… and maybe adding more to the list over time.
do you have any words that you associate with the Original Learning Approach?
W...whole (whole child)
This could be a fun group activity in the workshop. Maybe I'll find some interesting words from the new Beetlejuice film. Going tonight to watch it