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How a child's brain develops through early experiences

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Learning Stories: Documentation Project - Pedagogical Narration in Saanich Elementary Schools

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Here are eight Learning Stories for you to download, discuss, and offer to others in order to spread ever more widely the practice of pedagogical narration following Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee's exemplars of Learning Stories.

These examples use the convention I adopted to craft the final product. In this form, the story teller spins a tale of an event from a novelist's perspective (with maybe a bit of loving bias sprinkled in). The afterwards sections include (1) an attentive and compassionate discussion of meaning from the educator's experience, told directly to the child(ren), and (2) possibilities in the child(ren)'s future and for the school, voiced to these communities.

If you want to see the ultimate, much more nuanced source, I invite you to go to Kei Tua o Pae at the Ministry of Education of New Zealand / Aotearoa.
Each can be downloaded by clicking the link under the player.
Josie's Drip

Josie's drip was recorded on videotape. The camera was pointed at the entire table of children, so images were taken from the video, cropped and enlarged to focus only on her. Here is Pre-K Science for those of you who are politically enamored of STEM for children under age 6, who, by the way, are naturally scientists.
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Priyankaa Draws

Priyankaa Draws, told by Sunita Bhandri, is an example of a story about a younger child photographed with a digital camera.

Fragile People Play

The Fragile People Play, told by Sarah Gese at Giddens School, shows all six Passages of The Learning Frame in one story of a group of girls creating a performance from their play with dolls. I invite you to read this and see if you don't agree that moving through all six passages is transformation. Those children are changed forever by this experience. They now view themselves as storytellers and playwrights.
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Riley and Mateo

Riley Visits Mateo is a story of a playdate told by Mom, Birgit Laurent, an early childhood educator. I include it to give you a glimpse into my educational program for teachers called Connecting to Children an entirely constructivist, locally conducted, year-long investigation into how one behaves with children at the most fundamental level. Mastery of each module is demonstrated to everyone in a Performance of Understanding, proving your own learning. In the final module, D4, the performance is to create a Learning Story that begins with children's initiative and uses narrative documentation to tell a story specifically about either cooperation or perseverance, which were two of the three concepts studied. The third basic disposition studied was initiative.
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Henry's Bus

Henry's first day of moving up to the older toddler classroom becomes a Welcoming Story, told by Rob Nessly. Wendy Lee clued me into the challenge of creating a Learning Story in the first two weeks of a child's enrollment. It is always possible to take at least one photo of each child that shows engagement, the second passage.

Joy with the Marble Run

Joy with the Marble Run, in English, or Alegría con la ejecución de Mármol , in Español, highlights cooperative action, the kind of story when retold to the class helps develop a cooperative democratic cooperativa y democrática culture in the school, one of the topics covered elsewhere here. Stories of altruism or cooperation can be used in group times to create a shared mythological playbox ( Joseph Campbell Foundation).

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Sascha and the Mirror

Here is an example of how a Learning Story is created from raw documentation-the reality of the traces of an event that happened one morning in play with the pattern blocks with Sascha, the five-year-old protagonist, as gathered by Emilly Hillsten Kays. Before showing you the final Learning Story, I review the options we have in using the raw traces in ways that are NOT a Learning Story, which challenges our view of best pedagogical practice. When we use facts we have gathered to retell the event from the point of view of the observer, with specific reflection pieces added, we have a Learning Story.

The Sascha story also highlights how play materials are an expressive language in which the child can represent experience. With experience over time a language can step deeper into the discovery of ideas and relationships. Oral language (English, here) does not communicate as well as the materials do themselves. Geometric shapes not only represent the known, Rafiki, but also step beyond to offer the discovery of ideas and meanings beyond what we see.

The basic documentation, images and transcribed speech, are facts-traces of a physical reality at one moment in time. What do we do with these traces?

Shall we keep them in a computer file?
Shall we show them casually to someone?
Shall we put them in a file or notebook as evidence for licensing?
Shall we send the pictures home?
Or shall we take the time to write a Learning Story?

Sascha Pattern Blocks

Jolene Brushes Paint

Below are three resources for people to write their own learning story of Jolene at the easel. After watching the video multiple times, people can write on pages that have printed images of Jolene. They can compare their versions and possibly work together in teams to pull the best ideas together to make a cooperative story, which can then be shared with others. After! that sharing people can read the Learning Story Tom and Holly wrote that Jolene took home to her family.

1′ 42″ Video of Jolene painting (below) which you can download from VIMEO,

Link to a PDF file to use with the video, JoleneBlank (four pictures per page without text), for workshop participants to try their hand at writing a Learning Story after watching the video over and over again.

Learning Story which you can also download Jolene Brushes Paint, provides the "answers" to the JoleneBlank exercise, which aren't really answers. The Learning Story Holly and I created together is what we sent home with the child. It represents as completely as possible our perspectives from years of experience with tempera, knowing Jolene, and knowing her family. This is a unique story at a unique time by unique people, which could never be replicated by anyone else. Jolene, by the way, loves squirrels.

We all get to write from our unique perspectives; when combined with the perspectives of others, we become more careful observers and more capable authors.

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Examples of Learning Stories - Tom Drummond

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Examples of Learning Stories Here are eight Learning Stories for you to download, discuss, and offer to others in order to spread ever more widely the practice of pedagogical narration following Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee's exemplars of Learning Stories. These examples use the convention I adopted to craft the final product.

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When we think of Pride Month, the first image that typically comes to mind is the classic rainbow flag. However, many people don't realize that along with the Rainbow Pride Flag, there are an array of different identifiers that represent the diverse queer community. While many in the LGBTQIA+ community identify with the all-encompassing rainbow flag, each group has its own flag to represent its unique contributions and stories within the community. Here's a rundown of the different flags and what they represent.

The Gilbert Baker Pride Flag

The original rainbow pride flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 at the request of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California. Gilbert chose the rainbow as it represents a symbol of hope.

Original flag colors and meaning:

Pink: sex; Red: life; Orange: healing; Yellow: sunlight; Green: nature; Turquoise: magic; Blue: harmony; Violet: spirit.

Rainbow Pride Flag

This is the iteration of the Pride Flag that we all know today, used to symbolize the overall LGBTQIA+ community. In this version, the pink and turquoise were excluded from the flag so it would be easier to mass-produce.

Queer People of Color Flag

While the designer is unknown, the flag represents the crossings of the Black and queer communities in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Philadelphia's People of Color Inclusive Flag

Created in 2017, this version adds black and brown to the rainbow flag to represent the unique challenges faced by Black and brown people in the LGBTQIA+ community.

Transgender Flag

Created in 1999 by Monica Helms, according to , an online publication dedicated to queer pop culture and entertainment, the pattern on the flag was created in a way that no matter how you fly the flag, it will always be correct.

Flag colors and meaning:

Blue represents boys; Pink represents girls; White represents those who are transitioning, have no gender, or are gender-neutral.

"Progress" Pride Flag

Designed by Daniel Quasar, this flag adds the colors and stripes from Philadelphia's pride flag (black and brown) and the ones of the transgender pride flag (pink, blue, and white) to the original pride flag. Many now use this as the symbol of Pride Month.

Bisexual Flag

Since bisexuality comes in many forms, the colors on this flag are meant to symbolize the different types of attraction that exist. According to , Michael Page, the flag creator, wanted to create something bisexual people feel a connection to.

Flag colors and meaning:

Magenta: same-sex attraction; Royal blue: opposite-sex attraction; Lavender: attraction to both sexes.

Lesbian Flag

Designed by Emily Gwen, this flag initially had a red lipstick kiss mark on it; however, over time, this version was phased out, and a new iteration was introduced with orange stripes to represent those that are gender-nonconforming.

Flag colors and meaning:

Dark orange: gender nonconformity; Mid orange: independence; Light orange: community; White: unique relationships to womanhood; Light pink: serenity and peace; Middle pink: love and sex; Dark pink: femininity.

Intersex Flag

Intersex is defined as those whose bodies do not align with the gender binaries of males or females. This includes those with both genitals or other differences. The flag's colors of yellow and purple were chosen as they are typically seen as nonbinary colors.

Asexual Flag

Asexuality.org defines the term asexual as having a lack of sexual attraction. Those who identify as asexual feel sexual attraction infrequently, in certain scenarios, or only if there is a strong emotional connection.

Flag colors and meaning:

Black: represents asexuality as a whole; Gray: represents gray asexuality and demisexuality; White: represents sexuality; Purple: represents community.

Nonbinary Flag

Created in 2014 by Kye Rowan, the nonbinary flag represents those who are nonbinary and identify as neither male nor female.

Flag colors and meaning:

Yellow: represents genders outside of the gender binary; White: represents people who identify with many or all genders; Purple: represents genders that are a combination of male and female; Black: represents people who are agender.

Pansexual Flag

According to the Human Rights Campaign, the Pansexual Pride Flag emerged in approximately 2010 with the aim of raising awareness within the community. Its creation sought to provide a distinct symbol for pansexuality, differentiating it from bisexuality.

Flag colors and meaning:

Hot pink: Represents attraction to women; Yellow: Represents nonbinary attraction; Blue: Represents attraction to men.

Straight Ally Flag

The combination of the rainbow with black and white stripes represents allies' support of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Here's What the Different LGBTQIA+ Flags Represent

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While many in the LGBTQIA+ community identify with the all-encompassing rainbow flag, each group has its own flag. Here's a rundown.

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How the body keeps the score on trauma | Bessel van der Kolk for Big Think+

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Fetal Development 3D Animation - Infuse Medical

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Harms from exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy

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The Impact of Drinking Alcohol at Difference Times During Pregnancy

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How Alcohol affects the Fetal Brain - Dr. Bruce Perry

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CECE Early Childhood Videos at Eastern CT State U.

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