Education
Gym—and meditation—can be both about what we do and how we make sense of what we do.
Kids Say the Dharmdest Things, Part II
The second installment of koans collected by a Montessori gym teacher
Ideas (Meta)Physical Education
The Value of Mindfulness in the Classroom
An elementary gym teacher and Zen practitioner asks mindfulness expert Sandra Delaney if mindfulness is doing children more harm than good.
(Meta)Physical Education: Playing with Time
What can adults learn from how kids relate to time?
Meditation (Meta)Physical Education
How to Resist the Comfort of Repetition
What a Buddhist gym teacher learned from his students about moving beyond the familiar.
Personal Reflections (Meta)Physical Education
Being Wrong Until You Get It Right
What a physical education teacher and Zen practitioner learned about not knowing while teaching English in Vietnam.
Meditation (Meta)Physical Education
(Meta)Physical Education: A Bucking Brontosaurus
Children can remind us of how bright and mysterious our lives can be. But should we strive to emulate their minds?
Meditation (Meta)Physical Education
(Meta)Physical Education: Cry, Baby
A Montessori teacher's students remind him that vulnerability is not a weakness, but a strength.
Personal Reflections (Meta)Physical Education
(Meta)Physical Education: Kids Say the Dharmdest Things
A collection of koans that a Montessori teacher gathered over eight years.
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