Professional Development
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By illuminating the natural connections between Nature, Academics, the Arts, and SEL, we guide educators to access and develop their own inner power and unique approach to create
healthier learning environments and increase intrinsic motivation within their students. Through our unifying approach, our professional development workshops empower educators with frameworks for designing their own whole-child-centered, integrative lessons by exploring the ways that academic concepts have personal meaning and relevance to their students. |
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"The teacher is a facilitator in the process of connecting the mind, the will, and the heart of the child with what is true, good and beautiful, so that when [they] become a teenager or adult, [they] will eventually be able to identify and discover [truth, goodness, and beauty for themselves]."Dr. Catherine L'Ecuyer
The Wonder Approach |
Like every point on the planet is one intersection of a more extensive, integrative system, every academic topic is one intersection of a constellation of other physical, emotional, relational, cultural, creative, intellectual, and spiritual inroads to the same concept. One major problem is that we are so busy "driving" down one particular road most of the time, we forget to pause at the intersection to examine the constellated connections. Learn more about integrative academics.
In almost all traditional educational settings, the focus on teaching "the unit" preempts situating that unit properly within the youth's minds and hearts. Unifying the child within the lesson means to locate their natural connection to the material. A much more doable feat if we, as adults, can perceive the natural connections at that particular intersection. This holistic and integrative view represents a subtle but powerful shift of our mindset: Academics are the Arts, SEL, and Nature inherently. It is our separation and compartmentalization that is flawed.
In almost all traditional educational settings, the focus on teaching "the unit" preempts situating that unit properly within the youth's minds and hearts. Unifying the child within the lesson means to locate their natural connection to the material. A much more doable feat if we, as adults, can perceive the natural connections at that particular intersection. This holistic and integrative view represents a subtle but powerful shift of our mindset: Academics are the Arts, SEL, and Nature inherently. It is our separation and compartmentalization that is flawed.