Changing the future means changing the way we look at education.
OUR MISSION
Our mission here at Raindrops is to transform the teaching/learning paradigm. Too often children are entering into adulthood afraid to fail, afraid to take risks, thinking inside the prescribed box and having too small a comfort zone. By reframing the way we look at play, our connection to nature, the parent-teacher, parent-child, teacher-child, and child- child dynamic, we can begin to imagine a world that is relationship centric and uniquely transformed to address today’s and tomorrow’s problems.
How Do We Implement Our Mission?
By identifying, recognizing and engaging inner vulnerabilities, by celebrating failure as part of the cycle of inquiry and learning, by becoming problem seekers not just problem solvers, by emphasizing the importance of sharing ideas and collaborating, and by accepting that adults in this world do not have the answers to everything but we DO have the responsibility to more mindfully guide children to discover what we have yet to.
We advocate for mindful language that facilitates children’s personal reflection and growth. We advocate for uninterrupted and uninhibited play. Play is our origin tool for engagement, experimentation, and innovation. We advocate for the realigning of parents and teachers as co-constructors and partners in the path to reimagining education. We advocate for the celebration of the messy, the problems, and the mistakes that emerge from our humanity- because here is where creativity lies and is awakened!
My colleague Shawna Thompson and I have also developed Sunbeam Consulting as a think tank for our collective ideas to partner parents as co-constructors of this venture to reframe Early Childhood Education