Learning to Fly
Further to my post about The Impacts of Rural School Consolidation, I wanted to share some impressive solutions rural schools have developed – often in partnership – to add value for their students … and for their community-at-large.
The Royal Tyrell Museum has collaborated to deliver videoconferencing education – with a paleontology angle – to students in Canada, the United States [...]
Living Backwards
Are you a heyoka?
The Lakota tradition of the heyoka – a contrarian or ’sacred clown’ – fits in well with the concept of community-building, as heyokas were those in the tribe charged with challenging people’s thinking and shaking up the status quo.
At a sundance, a heyoka might dance backwards around the young men, or sashay [...]
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