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Positively Disrupt Yourself / #art #storydance #movementtherapy #NYC #positivedisruption

Positively Disrupt Yourself / #art #storydance #movementtherapy #NYC #positivedisruption

Don't Keep Calm and Carry On / #criticalthinking #parenting #teachers

Do we so easily sacrifice our morality at the altar of entertainment?  What does it profit us as a community if our children practice immorality as they develop their minds? In America, it is accepted that our children can revel blindly in the crossroads of adrenaline, liberty and an immorality unheard of even twenty years ago.  How does empathy die? How is empathy’s development stunted? How do our smart children go wayward with their ā€˜teeth set on edge?’ In an era mass shootings can we separate what and how we invest our energy and fathom not that our investments bear fruit into and that which becomes our society? The number one selling video game of all time has reportedly made over a billion dollars in its first day of sales, and in its latest installment, the graphic circumstances of mayhem unrestricted are released with such visual technicolor and geographic exactitude as never seen before. Though it has been in circulation for almost twenty years, ...

Clinical Teachers: Armies of One / #edchat #criticalthinking #education

I t is not the responsibility of empty vessels to create the motivation to learn, but rather, the prerogative to teach, the very responsibility of it, must be entrusted to the teacher. It can be so, that according to a child’s social-economic status, an affluent upbringing can be infused with a ā€˜comfort space’ of human development not generally experienced in the life of the child who hails from a low-income community.  This juxtaposition in the human development and daily experiences of the affluent child and the child who lives at or near the poverty line bring a different array of positive and negative forces which impact their general well-being. As these two general sets of children age, the difference becomes more contrasted and is clearly evident at the time both reach middle school years. One need only look at children who receive private schooling as opposed to those who receive public school education in low-income neighborhoods. A child who attends private scho...

The Golden Rule & The Duty of Critical Thinkers / #socialresponsibility #edchat #TeamUSA

updated 2:24 pm est 11/10/17 The idea of cultivating critical thinkers is easily a lofty ideal purported to be achieved throughout academia and espoused as the hallmark of journalistic integrity.  Achieving the critical thinking mind requires a certain bravery, wherein, once our ability to tap into our own knowledge of content matter is done, we must require it upon ourself to contrast our assessment and infer from an ā€˜outsiders’ point of view what is true and right and what is inaccurate and, even possibly, the propagandization of a special interest. . For the critical thinker, the affinity to discern is attached to our decision to look at the hard truth and favor this over our viewpoints, our political inclinations, and our stance on any given subject. This is hard to do. . In the following essay, I ask what exercise in democracy is achieved if political forces practice varying levels of indoctrination, in effect swaying public interest towards their ā€˜camp,’ rather...

#ServantLeadership and #CriticalThinking Saves Our Country’s Health / #edchat #TeamUSA

Through what means is a community best built? Where can the societal ingredients be found that can serve as the foundational bedrock for a nation as large as the United States of America? Through what means is a community best built? Where can the societal ingredients be found that can serve as the foundational bedrock for a nation as large as the United States of America? How do we move forward to better ourselves as a collective whole and still hearken to perfecting values that have upheld this American quilt for over two hundred and fifty years? Why do we apparently continue to have a union of American states after so much civil turmoil has beset us since the foundation of our country? Can America become stronger even as internal forces are poised to rip us apart? I learned Einstein’s scientific formula from my high school math teacher that force equals mass times the speed of acceleration. This theory can be somewhat extrapolated beyond its originals application in ph...

Can You Say Shibboleth? - A Process of Awakening / #socialresponsibility #positivedisruption #USA

After the election of President Trump in 2017, I thought of the integrity in being a part of the solution to bring America together again. An idealistic notion it is to dream that this was possible in the current environment. It is not. With the Democrats focused on obstructionism and resistance, the active use of propaganda through means of media and entertainment, all in unison with the objective of seeking a coupe on the Presidency is evident. It is evident as well, that they cannot be brought into the fold as it is. The people, like a stormy sea, seem to be whipped up into a froth with calls to stop and impede the forward momentum of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. As it stands, the story on Russian collusion that was created and attempted to be placed on the President has flipped and landed squarely on the leaders of the Democratic Party, singling out a former Secretary of State and First Lady, the FBI and even, charismatic former President Barac...

One Nation Under Ideology: Thinking Critically and Independently is The Way / #thisAmericanQuilt #TeamUSA #socialresponsibility #positivedisruption

After the election, it became increasingly evident that the news media, the entertainment industry and the administrations of the social media platforms we enjoy were brazenly leftist in ideological social values and openly campaigning for a coupe of the incoming presidential administration. They call it the ā€˜resistance.’ Many celebrity faces called for the assassination of the President Trump and issued a general call to obstruct, misinform and counter the governance of the president and openly target his supporters through indirect means of thought influence and sometimes quite directly through violent and intolerant action as shown to be by the social democratic group known as ā€˜Antifa,’ short for anti-fascists.  It is apparent that established American news media is overwhelmingly leftist in ideology and this puts forth the question of how they are respecting the American populace at large. Is it not a tenant of journalism to put forth the ā€˜news’ in an objective manne...