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Summer is
How does someone who made her official debut into a career centred on children and education with a summer camp in 1997 share with families today what summer needs to look like? Well, I’m that person (on the left in the photo below) and that question got me thinking… a lot. It also led me back to old photos and conversations with some of my original Fundaciones schools team members; some of…
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What's At Play?!
Before there were tablets, gaming consoles and smart phones there were yards filled with laughter, ring games sung from memory, cricket matches played with makeshift bats and children who could turn almost anything into a toy. Growing up in Jamaica was synonymous with play and everything it entailed. Play was embedded in our lives in spontaneous, independent and often unstructured ways. It was…
Guess who's back?!
Last week was #UNGA80 and while I battled a serious case of #JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out), my remedy was to connect virtually to education, climate action, and development sessions. The conversations that followed were nothing short of transformative, I fancy them my kind of modern-day Renaissance. I’ve been watching and working from the sidelines and September has been the well-needed resumption…
PERSPECTIVE
A LOOK AT OUR CHILDREN’S REALITIES AND WHAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER “What you know ‘bout stress?” “Yuh nuh have a ting fi bodda yuh.” How often have we heard these words said, maybe to us, or to the children around us? Have we uttered them, or even considered doing so? I’m pretty certain, we’ve given it thought. Before the pandemic, the average Jamaican, at least with whom I interacted, would…
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2020 - The Rebirth
2020 – The Rebirth
2020, the year of … my rebirth. Literally just in the knick of time. In November 2019, I claimed that 2020 would be synonymous to a Renaissance. It was the year I’d get my ducks in a row and despite what was happening with Fundaciones legally and internally, we would, as always, come out stronger, like the rockstars we imagined we were. It felt good, like it was en route to taking place. It felt…
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Our Jamaican Educational Conundrum.
Our Jamaican Educational Conundrum.
As the new school year draws near, policy makers, practitioners, parents and children are likely to be worried not only about the recent local spike in COVID-19 cases but also concerned about the effects of this crisis upon our educational system. Of paramount importance is the fact that the effects of this pandemic is not detrimental to only Jamaica, but have been responsible for forcing more…
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Of Innocence & Experience - Ode To The Game
Of Innocence & Experience – Ode To The Game
I’ve gotten it wrong for a long time…for a really long time.
But… I got it right initially and hopefully am getting it right again.
Innocence is bliss.
And true innocence is often tuning out the world and people that are around you. It’s living high on that emotional gratification scale, being grateful, finding joy and being very deliberate and focused only on what you see and feel directly…
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For The Thrill Of It
For The Thrill Of It
Some days I love love love what I do.
Some days I don’t know what on Earth there is to love about what I do…Ok, maybe I take that back, because there are always the hugs that I get from my big and little kids and those make you love love love what you do (even if it’s only for the duration of the hug).
I’ve been having a lot of those what am I doing, this is far from a sane, emotionally-healthy…
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Thanks Rebecca, we did the #GlobalGoals
If you know me relatively well, you’ll know that I really love and believe in education and my role in it. Thankfully I have a friend who believes in education (maybe a little bit more) and her role in it too. She’s my mentor and educational go to person in short, and her name is Rebecca Tortello. Whenever she sends me emails about education, they’re usually good. Just as we reopened school, she…
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Just A Second
Do you feel like you have a zillion things demanding your undivided attention daily? I do, and some days I feel like I need to forget the definition of multitasking and devote my time exclusively and wholeheartedly to each “thing.” And boy, does that take time (more than a second). Here’s my life in a nutshell these past weeks. Just picture: One of head school whatsapping you while the other is…
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A real Jamaican funeral
So today I attended a funeral. And what a funeral it was. It wasn’t any funeral. My nanny, since birth, was laid to rest. So it was a special type of funeral, for me at least. She was a wonderful woman who I will always remember. RIP Nana, anyways…back to the funeral. So for one, the funeral was in a community centre in the ghetto. A ghetto that looks like it was uprooted from a city in Africa…
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Baby?! No baby?!
Its 2017, 20 years since I’ve… graduated from high school and begun my adventures with children. Twenty years ago seems like yesterday, in my mind at least, but doesn’t look that way when the kids I taught then have graduated from college and are sending their children to my schools. Their children?! In 1997 I thought I’d definitely have children by now. After all, I love children. I’ve only ever…
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Hacking lesson plans: lessons not planned for but learnt anyway
The concept of iteration is so important in education. As educators in a third world country we try a concept once and it doesn’t work and we abandon it. Or better yet, we think anything new and different is just downright dirty and difficult so we play defense. We forget, or maybe we never ever really stopped to think that software developers have to “beta” test things over and over for them…
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Know that you know
Know that you know
Do you really know that you know what you know? It’s been said that you know what you need to know, when you’re ready to know it…know what I’m saying?! Is it then, that we’re afraid of knowing what we need to know; or just that we haven’t realized that we really already know what we know? Hhhmm. It’s a lot to know. Here’s to a year of knowing all you need to know; when and how you need to know…
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Team Fun Does NAEYC
Team Fun Does NAEYC
“It’s been a dream of mine to travel overseas with my teachers. To share the excitement of connecting with lots of people, who do what we do, across the world; to see all new and exciting resources available; to think of ways to strengthen children’s experiences and to just enjoy the delights of being in another space that can encourage real reflection. This totally happened! My teachers loved…
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TIA?!
Tía is Spanish for Aunt. Not ringleader nor zoo keeper. And definitely not juggler, nor tight rope walker. It’s one of the first words to greet me every morning; well Monday to Friday at least. I see “Hola Tía” on my phone by the latest 7:00 am from one of twenty three FUNdaciones related group chats and sometimes as early as 5:00 am (regrettably I never seem to be able to reply or even to find…
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Rants About A Life (in Progress)
Rants About A Life (in Progress)
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