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Art, Wellness and "Learning Abilities"

Drawing Connections - A Pre-School to 1st Grade look at "Developmentally Appropriate", "Arts-Based" Language Development and Motivation.

Semiotics - How "Arts-Based" learning relates to Neuro-Linguistics:  pre-K - 12, in all Subjects and how Everyteacher can enlist. 

Drawing People - How and Why "Story-Telling" supports Language Development, and Motivation.

I can help improve Everychild’s ability and joy for literacy.

HOW

During my 30+ years as a Public School Teacher and Researcher, I have created a New Paradigm that can improve Everychild’s ability to become literate. This paradigm has expanded literacy to include Visual as well as Verbal literacy. The Public Schools are a "Living Laboratory" where I have researched and experienced Practical Methods that change lives. SUCCESS breeds SUCCESS.

The Relaxation Response

When Dr. Herbert Benson introduced this simple, effective, approach to relieve stress in The Relaxation Response twenty-five years ago, the book became an instant national bestseller. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret of the relaxation response--without high-priced lectures, drugs, or prescription medicine. The tremendous success of this approach has turned The Relaxation Response into the classic reference recommended by most health care professionals and authorities to treat the harmful effects of stress. This revitalizing, therapeutic approach was discovered by Dr. Benson and his colleagues in the laboratories of Harvard Medical School and its teaching hospitals.

Relaxation Training could be better than Ritalin

The Hundredth Monkey

by Ken Keyes, jr.

 The Japanese monkey, Macaca  fuscata, had  been observed in the wild for a period of over  30  years.

 In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists  were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes  dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the  taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they  found  the dirt unpleasant.

 An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve
 the problem by washing the  potatoes in a nearby stream.
 She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also
 learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by
various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.

Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.

Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain numberof Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known.

Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes.

Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey
learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.

The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice.

A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea --

Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon meansthat when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness,a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

(from the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, jr.
The book is not copyrighted and the material may be reproduced in whole or in part.