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Subject: $100 referral paid for each Parent/Child who enrolls to the June 2020 Online Summer Camp
Subject: $100 referral paid for each Parent/Child who enrolls to the June 2020 Online Summer Camp
$100 referral paid
for each Parent/Child who enrolls in the June 2020 Online Summer Camp
* Bloomingdale's
Online Summer Camp is a place for your child to be part of a group of 5
children for 6 hrs/week of Fun, Exploration, and Discovery
* The Summer Camp is a 4-week test pilot of our concept of a global school of schools, organized as pods of 5 students and their 5 parents around the world
* The Summer Camp is a 4-week test pilot of our concept of a global school of schools, organized as pods of 5 students and their 5 parents around the world
A Children’s Pod in
France learning “Pebble Meditation”
The Pebble
Meditation by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is commonly taught to children as an
introduction to meditation. By using four pebbles the children foraged
together, this meditation teaches the four qualities of happiness:
beauty/freshness (flower), stability/solidity (mountain), peace/tranquility
(still water), freedom/liberation (space/emptiness).
Kids need
connection. They are hard-wired for it. In this time of unprecedented change
and uncertainty, children are adapting to circumstances that no one in their
family has faced in living memory. Without connection, children feel lost and
unable to express both their deepest held feelings and their innate gifts and
talents. They cannot grow and learn from those around them in meaningful ways.
As essential
policies are implemented to protect the physical health of the classroom
community, many opportunities to foster and develop social-emotional learning
are lost. Children need these interactions to support healthy growth and
development. These fundamental skills cannot be measured by standardized tests.
In “How Will The
Coronavirus Shutdown Affect Education Next School Year And Beyond?”, founder of
Academic Business Advisors and EdChat Interactive, Mitch Weisburgh writes:
“Learning is
social, we learn best from and with each other. This will take many forms.
Schools will initiate some programs where older students will help younger
students, others where students will work in groups, and others where students
will share accomplishments and offer encouragement and feedback to other
students.”
There’s no denying
we are on the verge of a whole new way of human interaction. This is the time
to come together to imagine new possibilities. But how can we safely
bring our children together and support their learning at a crucial time
of development when it's so risky to do so in public and private places?
Ms. Merritt
Micro-Schooling is a new way of social interaction and education for the future
which focuses on building social networks between cultures and
communities. Our learning method creates engaging experiences of unified
aliveness and connection between participants of online groups.
The Ms. Merritt
Micro-School was founded in the Summer of 2019 by teachers with
years of experience teaching in the Washington, D.C. public school system,
animating Children's Programs in Europe, and facilitating different ways
of learning in Thailand. Instead of designing and developing a
better solution to online education, our teaching methods were discovered
through our direct experience of what's possible in mental performance,
well-being and the mastery of everyday living.
You know how
there's a land-rush to figure out the best 'one-sized' fits all solution
to online learning? That's not what this is. Our
curriculum is a framework of dynamic practices, processes, and
methods which are fun, engaging, and life transformative.
We have a big
vision to grow a small global school of schools. We invite you to
find out more about our June 2020 Summer School Micro-Schooling Pilot-Pod!
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