3 small ideas
No big ideas spring to mind here. It's as though setting this up has instantly resulted in writer's block, crazy given how busy my head is nearly every second of the day.
While I was sitting doing my ten minutes meditation with Tara Brach tonight, trying to focus on her voice and what she was saying in an attempt to be in the moment, and as always having trouble with this because I seem to have trouble breathing when someone tells me to think about it, in one of the seconds where I drifted off I thought about writing this.
Ok to books, seems like a more likely source of ideas. I've just finished The Luminaries and lent it to Rachel. Yesterday she told me Kea had chewed it and the last page had come out and blown off in the wind. Today she sent me a text saying she'd found the page in amongst the seedlings last night all wet and soggy, looking as though it had been up the Hokitika River in some diggers pocket.
There are a few kids in my senior histroy class who should be heading to university next year. The school I teach in is a decile 2 and very few students go to university, and in particular very few Maori students. Two of the students I teach that I think should be at university are Maori, both of them will be the first in their families to go to university. They will qualify for a number of scholarships and I believe they do have the ability to achieve at university however I'm not sure they're going to get there. There are just so many obstacles. First, neither of them have enough credits from approved subjects yet, I think they can get these with one on one attention between now and the end of the year and I believe we should do this. I am convinced we need to focus on helping these two get the qualifications they need because I'm also convinced that getting these two girls to university, especially Waikato University, will have an enormous effect on other Maori girls following them.
As well as helping them gain the credits they need they also need to be guided through every step of the way in getting to Hamilton. For families that don't do this it's a unique experience. We all go to university, we get what you do, how it works, but if noone in your family has ever been to university and it isn't something you understand I think it may be a foreign landscape. I sort of feel that if we can get them there there will be enough other young people like them, that the university will know how to mentor and coach them through the early days and months. Well, that's what I'm hoping.
I've been teaching these girls for three years now, and many of the staff feel as I do, a vested interest in helping them get there. Because this is a small school where we know all the students many staff members are taking an interest in getting these girls to Waikato. It's interesting, we treat them almost as public property. We want them to achive for all of us. It's yet another illustration of the way this school is a community, a family. The school believes and lives it's philosophy, kia manawanui; be of a courageous and compassionate heart.
While I was sitting doing my ten minutes meditation with Tara Brach tonight, trying to focus on her voice and what she was saying in an attempt to be in the moment, and as always having trouble with this because I seem to have trouble breathing when someone tells me to think about it, in one of the seconds where I drifted off I thought about writing this.
Ok to books, seems like a more likely source of ideas. I've just finished The Luminaries and lent it to Rachel. Yesterday she told me Kea had chewed it and the last page had come out and blown off in the wind. Today she sent me a text saying she'd found the page in amongst the seedlings last night all wet and soggy, looking as though it had been up the Hokitika River in some diggers pocket.
There are a few kids in my senior histroy class who should be heading to university next year. The school I teach in is a decile 2 and very few students go to university, and in particular very few Maori students. Two of the students I teach that I think should be at university are Maori, both of them will be the first in their families to go to university. They will qualify for a number of scholarships and I believe they do have the ability to achieve at university however I'm not sure they're going to get there. There are just so many obstacles. First, neither of them have enough credits from approved subjects yet, I think they can get these with one on one attention between now and the end of the year and I believe we should do this. I am convinced we need to focus on helping these two get the qualifications they need because I'm also convinced that getting these two girls to university, especially Waikato University, will have an enormous effect on other Maori girls following them.
As well as helping them gain the credits they need they also need to be guided through every step of the way in getting to Hamilton. For families that don't do this it's a unique experience. We all go to university, we get what you do, how it works, but if noone in your family has ever been to university and it isn't something you understand I think it may be a foreign landscape. I sort of feel that if we can get them there there will be enough other young people like them, that the university will know how to mentor and coach them through the early days and months. Well, that's what I'm hoping.
I've been teaching these girls for three years now, and many of the staff feel as I do, a vested interest in helping them get there. Because this is a small school where we know all the students many staff members are taking an interest in getting these girls to Waikato. It's interesting, we treat them almost as public property. We want them to achive for all of us. It's yet another illustration of the way this school is a community, a family. The school believes and lives it's philosophy, kia manawanui; be of a courageous and compassionate heart.
Hi, this is beautiful, and inspirational. I love it. Just keep on posting and these ideas will keep flowing. Wonderful ideas and views and such an important topic.
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