What We Can Do
To Help Children Step Firmly
Onto the Path of Enlightened Education

by Creative Educational Systems

• Create classroom environments that are psychologically and physically safe, stimulating, challenging and nurturing.
  
  
• Teach every child the realities of living in the 21st Century:
  
  
  • Math—informed consumerism, checking and savings accounts, budgets, taxes, profit and loss, the principles of business, financial planning.
    
    
  • Science—natural processes, how cycles and systems work, what’s healthy and what isn’t, ecology, genetics, environment, patterns of human behavior.
    
    
  • Social Studies—the importance of food, water, climate and landforms in the development of any culture; how people live in different areas of the world and how it affects their lives, how the world got to be the way it is because of the choices people made; who did what, what did they have to go through to do it, and what difference did it make in the world; issues of food growth, distribution and consumption; housing, clothing, transportation, wealth and poverty.
    
    
  • Language Arts—visions, concepts and ideas, imagination and alternative realities, communication (verbal, visual, musical, physical, behavioral, private and public).
    
    
• Teach every child according to his or her uniqueness.
  
  
• Actively give all children acknowledgement, support, structure and discipline.
  
  
• Seek out and find "best practices"—strategies that produce the desired results—and then use them.
  
  
• Share resources and solutions with others who are striving toward the goals of an enlightened education for all children… Network.
  
  
• Make ongoing professional development for those who work with children the highest of priorities.
  
  
• Encourage children to know what’s going on in the world and to regularly express their thoughts and feelings about it.
  
  
• Promote active service to one another by the children—at school, in their homes and in their community.