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1. Current Issue # 9 September 23, 2000
"TEACHING FROM OUR HEARTS...
being and building caring for teachers and those
we relate to"
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Welcome ....
to our first newsletter since the end of May. This summer we
took a hiatus, sent you some updates and have done some planning.
In this issue of our newsletter, we are sharing additional areas
that have been put on our website to help in understanding and building
caring. Wheras our website had 10 categories of areas to look at
on our homepage ... we now have enough to fill the alphabet. We
invite you to explore and discover what we are sharing with you
with the hope that much will be of use and there will be times that
you will want to share back with us and others who learn about our
updates to the website.
In addition to the ongoing help and support of Diane Lightbody,
our contributing editor, I want to thank Walter Smith - our "web
carer" and Darin Scheff "our web caring host provider."
You may wish to visit our homepage and explore on
your own ... or
take advantage of the table of contents below. Our newsletter this
month introduces the expanded site and brings many "caring"
works that we are appreciative to share with you.
Kind regards,
Marty Kirschen
1) The 3 W’s of Caring
A. The
Why of caring... Why is it important to ask these questions...
1. Introduction
2. Why is caring important to education?
3. Why is it important to "be" and "instruct"
caring?
3. Why is it importartant to define what caring is?
B. What
... Attitude and action
1. Individuals define caring (updated December
2000)
2. Meaning in Caring - Milton Mayeroff
3. The Heart of Caring - Nel Noddings
4. Social and Emotional Learning - Elias, Weissberg, Cohen
C. The Want
of Caring Building the inclination to care...
1. Introduction
2. Excerpts by Milton Mayeroff
3. Connections beyond the classroom - listening building caring
2) Caring in Context
D.Commonality...
Similarities in examples...
1. The commonality of caring ... a start
E.
Caring and Character...The relation of caring to ethics
1. Learning and living a life of caring involves all other values
2. Caring is the heart of ethics
3. Caring in context, caring out of context
4. an afterthought
F.
Caring Dictionary...The abc's of caring...
1. Introduction
2. "A"
3. "B"
4. "C"
3) Caring in Class
G.
Caring Ways...Teachers being caring...
1. Introduction
2. Table of contents of "caring ways" Items
3. Main contents
H.
Caring Lessons ...Teaching lessons
1. Partnering: an experience in caring - from Harriet Heath, Phd.
2. Have you tried classroom meetings? - from Mark Broder
I.
Caring and the Arts ...To start... an article, a poem and a song
1. Using puppets to reach and teach children - Penelope Torribio
2. "May the Children in my Care" - poem by Genie Graveline
3. "Let's all be kind in class" - song lyrics by Marty
Kirschen
4. Four resources using poetry to teach caring (new
December 2000)
4) Caring Beyond the Classroom
J.
Caring Parents...The home connection
1. 10 Back to School Tips by Lucy Jo Palladino, Phd.
K.
Caring in the community...
The community connection ... our first example ...
1. What is Service Learning?
L.
Other School People...
Outside the classroom are very important people
1. Introducing Pat Krushen, she sees the fuller picture at school
2. Regarding custodians
3. Please share about a caring bus driver, aide, etc.
4. Developing schoolwide "caring" discipline -
Chip Wood (New - December 2000)
5) Links
M.
Web Links ... Web Sites and E-mails
1. Web Links
2. Individual E-Mail Links
3. Some Featured Sites
N. Other Links...
Books, articles and more... Please share with us.
1. Nine books containing aspects of caring
O. Calendar...
Conferences, talks, webevents of interest to a caring teacher
1. Dates of caring gatherings through August 2001 (New
- December 2000)
2. Alphabetical listings of organizations providing trainings (New
- December 2000)
6) Outreach
P.
Newsletter...
1. Current Issue #9
2. Index of prior issues (issues numbers 1-8)
3. Contacting us to Subscribe, unsubscribe or change address
4. Contacting the editors (Letters, comments, request issues, etc...)
Q. Self
Help Approaches ...
1. Quaker clearness committee approach August 1999
2. Caring that goes around comes around September 1999
3. Finding and getting on 'their good side' October 1999
4. Recovery, Inc. helps us deal with anxiety January 2000
R.
Caring campaign(s)...Calls to action...
1. Dare to care by Marty Kirschen
2. Call to action by Kurt Krueger
3. Fostering Courage, Strength, and Compassion in
Adolescent Girls: The First Step By Susan Fitzell
4. Regarding the value of standardized testing.
7) Further Expression
S.
From children...
1. What I've Learned So Far from Chicken Soup for the Kid's
Soul
2. How do students define a caring teacher?
3. Why do kids love School? from Carl Rogers & Jerome Freiberg
(New - December 2000)
T.
Deeper Meanings... Questions,
connections ...
1. Talking to children about violence - a guide
2. Writing memoirs - lessons for elementary school children
3. The Soul of Education - Rachael Kessler's book reviewed by John
Terry
4. Holistic Influences of Ron Miller (New -
December 2000)
U.
Sadness and anger... This issue we examine bullying
1. Helping children deal with bullies - the works of Kathy
Noll
2. Bully online
3. Teasing and bullying
4. The work of Ron Bril) on emotional honesty
8) Information Section
V.
Mission and policies...
What are we hoping to do and how we aim to do it...
W.
About Us...
Our editors Marty Kirschen and Diane Lightbody
and our web carer Walter Smith
X.
Writing to us... Expressions from you hearts ...
We welcome your letters
Y.
Receive e-mail "updates"...
regarding our "almost" monthly newsletter and other updates...
Let us know if you would like to receive e-mail updates
Z. our Site hosting
by 1 Hour Hosting Darin Scheff
Marty Kirschen, Editor marty
Diane Lightbody, Contributing Editor diane
General Comments comments
Mailing address
1613 Raymond Hill Road #2 . South Pasadena, CA
91030
Tel.
Our current subscriber mailing list is 750
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2. Index of Prior Issues
Issue # 1 August 8, 1999
1 \\ INTRODUCTION //
~ The purpose of and inspiration for the newsletter
2 \\ OUR THEME FOR THIS MONTH //
~ "What is caring and why is it important?
- to think about"
3 \\ RESOURCES - FAR AND NEAR //
3A ~ RESOURCES GLOBAL - Web sites with a strong emphasis on
caring
3B ~ RESOURCES NEAR - "Ripples in my pond" - resources
near you
4 \\ WAYS OF BEING AND BUILDING CARING //
4A ~ CARING SELF HELP - helping ourselves and each other
4B ~ CARING WAYS - being caring reinforces and builds caring
4C ~ CARING LESSONS - building emotional and social skills
4D ~ CARING ABOUT SADNESS - the emotionally wounded child
4E ~ CARING CONNECTIONS - parents, community and more
4F ~ CARING IN CONTEXT - curriculum, sports, the arts and
more
5 \\ CARING KEEPERS //
~ ASPECTS OF CARING - that we want to look at each
month
6 \\ LETTERS AND COMMENTS //
~ Your questions and comments... caring expressions
7 \\ TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS //
7A ~ For communicating to "Teaching from our Hearts" by
email
7B ~ Some operating guide lines.
7C ~ A logistical question I have for you.
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Issue # 2 September 9, 1999
1/ INTRODUCTION... About our featured theme, survey ...
FEATURED THEME... CARING - WHAT, WHY AND HOW
2/ MEANING IN CARING... The words of Milton Mayeroff
"On Caring"
WAYS OF BEING AND BUILDING CARING
3/ CARING WAYS... Survey results..."Being caring
builds caring"
(Summarized in the newsletter and in its entirety in the addendum)
4/ SELF HELP... "Caring that goes around comes
around" - a tool
5/ LESSONS... Class rules, student dreams... per
Rachael Kessler
6/ SADNESS... We can hurt or help a sad child
- a story forwarded
7/ CONNECTIONS... to parents and care providers
at school's start
8/ CARING IN CONTEXT... a poem by a teacher -
Genie Graveline
NEWS AND INFORMATION
9/ RESOURCES... some web sites and books to be
aware of
10/ CALENDAR... events coming up
11/ LETTERS... Comments, questions
12/ REQUESTS... for submissions
13/ NEWS... or newsworthy
14/ COMING UP... in next months
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Issue #3 October
20, 1999
1/ INTRODUCTION... About our featured theme
FEATURED THEME... CARING - WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT
2/ THE HEART OF CARING - LOVE ... The work of Nel Noddings
WAYS OF BEING AND BUILDING CARING
3/ CARING WAYS ... Peter McLaren's loving ways in Inner
City Toronto
4/ CONNECTIONS ... Beyond the classroom Carl Rogers,
Martin Buber...
5/ SELF HELP... Bob Strachota shows us how to get "On
Their Side"
6/ CARING IN CONTEXT ... Looking at caring 'out of context'
can help.
7/ CARING AND THE ARTS ... Sure to touch your HEARTDRIVE.CALM
NEWS AND INFORMATION
8/ RESOURCES... Some words about our addendum
(see the links portion of
our website)
9/ CALENDAR... Events Coming Up - Character
Counts Week and more!
10/ LETTERS... Comments, Questions
11/ COMING UP... In the next months
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Issue 4 December 12, 1999
Our Featured Theme - CARING WAYS ...
How by "being caring," we "build caring"
- a list
CONTENTS
. Introduction
. Reference "index" of the list of caring ways
. List of caring ways with examples
Please note that this issue can be found in its entirety
in the "Examples of Caring," portion of our site.
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Issue 5 January 10,
2000
1/ INTRODUCTION...
About this issue, and ...
introducing Diane Lightbody - our co-editor
2/ FEATURED ARTICLE ... "Boy and Girls -
Getting Along"
by Karen Davis Brown regarding the works
of Riane Eisler
3/ CARING WAYS ... Morning Meetings ... Planting Flowers
of Peace
inspired by the works of Ruth Charney and Jean
Gibbs
4/ CONNECTIONS ... Older kids helping younger kids -
Creating an intense caring community by Ray Hartjen
5/ SELF HELP... Recovery, Inc. helps us deal with fear
and anger
The wise ways of Dr. Abraham Low can work for
teachers
6/ CARING IN CONTEXT ... Social & Emotional Learning
- the words of
educators Roger Weissberg, Maurice Elias
and Jonathan Cohen
7/ CARING AND THE ARTS ... The song "Let's all
be kind in class"
from the Unity Church song "Let there
be peace on earth"
NEWS AND INFORMATION
8/ NEWS ... Some get togethers during the holidays
9/ LETTERS... A reader writes ...
11/ COMING UP... In the next issue
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Issue #6 April 8, 2000
1/ Introduction ...
This is the first issue of our newsletter that
is connected
to our new web site, Caringteachers.com.
{www.}
2/ Our mission ...
This is a draft of a mission statement for our
web site.
{www./mission.html}
3/ Calendar of events ...
An update of events through the end of the year.
{www./calendar.html}
4/ Caring campaign(s)
Here, we share ideas on how we can all help each
other spread
the word to do the deeds of caring.
{/campaigns.html}
5/ Coming up future newsletter / web site offerings
Such themes as caring for self, the cycle of
caring, examples
of caring, caring beyond the classroom.
Issue
# 7 April 26, 2000
1/ INTRODUCTION ... Our theme this month - "Caring
for myself"
2/ A MEDITATION ... a portion of 'Loving Kindness
Meditation,'
from "Embracing the Beloved," by Stephen
and Ondrea Levine
3/ CARING WAYS ...
"Rejuvenating mind, body, and spirit"
... first of a series
of three articles provided by Dr. Melody Lark
4/ ASPECTS OF CARING ...drawn from from Milton Mayeroff,
Thomas Moore, Parker Palmer and Peter
McLaren
5/ SELF HELP ... on using reflection and more - while
at school,
from "Time to Teach, Time to Learn,"
by Chip Wood
6/ CARING LIVES ... poignant personal reflections from
Victoria Satta and Anna Quindlan
7/ CARING AND THE ARTS ... The poem "Slow Dance"
submitted anonymously
8/ A CARING SPACE ... Creating a place for objects, ritual
and
reflection - from the words and works of Oralee
Stiles
Our current subscriber mailing list is 680
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Issue # 8 May 29, 2000
1/
INTRODUCTION ... Helping ourselves and others,
finding the positive, smiling, webcasts and more
...
Caring Ways
2/ NURTURING SELF: Balancing Nurturing Self With
Nurturing Others, by Melody Lark
3/ THE HEART OF EDUCATION edited by Steven Glazer,
reviewed by Linda Babin
Being on the Sunny Side of the Street
4/ POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - Excerpts and links to
works of Martin Seligman and his colleagues
5/ INVITATIONAL EDUCATION - Excerpts and links to
works of William Purkey and many kindred spirits
6/ THE POSITIVE EMOTION OF ELEVATION - a link to
an article by Jon Haidt
Resources and Calendar
7/ REACHING INDIVIDUAL HEARTS AND MINDS ... a list of
listservs,
mailrings, bulletin boards ... in our Resources
section of our website
8/ SUMMER CARING HAPPENINGS ... Updating our Website
Calendar
section for conferences, workshops, talks this
summer
9/ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT - "WEBCAST" An invitation
to two 'live'
video / audio - internet webcasts on social and
emotional learning.
Our current subscriber mailing list is 730
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