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15 October 2014 by thaliakr
Even if you’re little you can do a lot, you Mustn’t let a little thing like ‘little’ stop you – …
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Category: activism, child marriage, culture, developing world, disability, eco, fairtrade, home, kids, kids and spirituality, money, parenting, school, social exclusion, social justice, spirituality
| Tags: Blog Action Day, Book Bench, child sponsorship, Community Fruit Harvesting, conscious consumer, fruit picking, inequality, injustice, JM Barrie, kindness, landfill, Laura Giddey, Lulastic and the Hippyshake, Matilda the Musical, Peter Pan, pocket money, recycling, rubbish, The Little White Bird, The Story of Stuff, Tim Minchin, Trade Aid, volunteering, waste, World Vision
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11 September 2014 by thaliakr
Remember Susan Cain? You may have seen her fabulous TED talk that I posted a while ago, based on her book, Quiet: …
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Category: communication, education, introversion and extraversion, school, teachers
| Tags: classroom design, Education and Schooling, introversion, overstimulation, Quiet, Susan Cain, TED, TED talks
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14 March 2014 by thaliakr
This is an all-in-one post for Week 2 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background, start here. …
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Category: arts, communicating with kids, kids, kids and spirituality, language, movies, parenting, photography, school, social exclusion, social justice, spirituality
| Tags: bravery, Cityside Baptist Church, Glennon Doyle Melton, Jesus and disciples, Lent with kids, Malcolm Guite, praying with kids, Raphael, Sister Joan Chittister, Transfiguration, wisdom
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1 March 2014 by thaliakr
This is the first proper weekly post of our Lent with Kids series. If you’re reading this after the first …
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Category: Bible, church calendar, fasting, food, home, kids, kids and spirituality, Lent, school, spiritual practices, spirituality
| Tags: Jesus' temptation, Lent 2014, Lent candles, Lent with kids, Luke 4, wisdom
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4 December 2013 by thaliakr
A warm welcome to Rochelle Gribble, here with an insightful analysis of the recently-introduced, highly controversial ‘National Standards‘ that New …
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Category: education, education policy, kids, media, news, radio, rant, school, science, social justice, teachers
| Tags: Dominion Post, Education and Schooling, Fiona Ell, Hekia Parata, Kiwi Families, National Standards, New Zealand, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Programme for International Student Assessment, Rochelle Gribble, teacher training
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20 August 2013 by thaliakr
Set in 1930s Mississippi, in the year that Cassie realises being black can be a liability, Roll of Thunder, Hear …
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Category: books, culture, kids, mentors, money, parenting, racism, school, social justice, violence, working mothers
| Tags: American South, civil rights, gambling, Great Depression, land, marbles, Mildred D Taylor, Mississippi, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, segregation, sharecropping
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7 August 2013 by thaliakr
Hands up if you had a favourite teacher. You can read about some of mine in an earlier post in …
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Category: education, kids, school, teachers, video
| Tags: Education and Schooling, Rita Pierson, TED talks
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