||| TIES has offered me a privileged window through which to witness some of the most personally integrated expressions of study, practice and reflection I have witnessed in education. What is it about TIES that nurtures such authenticity, vulnerability and full...
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Reflection on Adolescent Symposium
For two weeks in late November, a “Symposium” – a gathering of learned scholars, assembled around the relatively contemporary phenomenon of adolescence. Skillfully and heartfully guided by TIES faculty Steven Arnold and Julie Haagenson, two hundred registered...
Listening to Adolescents
We approach adolescents in a different way, for our benefit and theirs. It is not that we, the adults, should invite adolescents to the table, and share our plan of the future with them. It is that we should hang out in their space, and hope to be invited to watch...
Adolescents as Guides
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching’s great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience...
Seasonal Transitions
Seasonal Transitions By Marc Cobb, TIES Alumni The changing of seasons has long been a reliable marker of time. Early humans used the unwavering journey of the sun to track the hours into days — and then the days to track the sometimes subtle, often blatant...
A Traveling Montessori Workshop
Montessori: The Essence A traveling workshop with Dr. Gang. Dr. Philip Snow Gang, TIES' founder and director is journeying to Europe where he is facilitating his workshop Montessori: The Essence in Prague and Oslo. This workshop is participatory and dialogue based. In...
To Educate Eco-sapiens
Through story, Philip Snow Gang relates the personal to the universal, with cosmic stories that pull viewers in, calling on our shared experience of being human in a very large universe.To Educate Eco-Sapiens engages the deep questions that follow us through life and...
Meetings with Remarkable Educators Podcast – Steven Arnold
Listen in Integrative Learning Seminars The core material and course work is presented through a series of on-line seminars where students and faculty post responses to an assigned reading (or viewing). Subsequent to the initial posting, participants comment...
Meetings with Remarkable Educators Podcast – Philip Snow Gang
Philip Snow Gang shares some of the golden threads from his lifelong journey as a teacher and philosopher. Integrative Learning Seminars The core material and course work is presented through a series of on-line seminars where students and faculty post responses to...