Our UpperSchool ("US") June graduate (2010), Harmony Brook, hasn't stopped contributing to the improvement of ElderLife. Despite her move onto the campus of Palladio High Academy, Harmony wends her way past The Dairy to our campus each Tuesday at ClubTime. Harmony has recruited and leads a large group of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd "US" Years committed to furthering ElderFair initiatives voted upon last May.
The first decision the group made was to name themselves, ElderFaeries ... magically making good things happen behind the scenes for all the elders in our lives around the world. In fact, ElderFaeries are now in search of a new meeting room that better accomodates thirty to fifty active middle school students. Spacious rooms on our affiliate Columbia campus promise not only roomier surroundings, but also ongoing support from last fall's recruits into Columbia's TeacherIntern Program.
Harmony hopes for an adult/student ratio of 1/4. Great ongoing results accrue from last summer's workshop series (Cooperative Group Model, by the extraordinary Patterns for Thinking trainer, Robyn Fogarty). Each group is now using a different strategy to to conduct their project research and construct their action goals. All teams would benefit though from Debriefing during the last fifteen minutes so that "loose ends" get resolved, and a steady pace resumes in the week following. Despite crowded conditions in our current location, Harmony expects ElderFaeries to double next spring's outreach results!
"The culture of our elders' world is rapidly advancing in quality because BabyBoomers are an informed generation, and because our world is finally realizing the great value of elders common to the Great Indian Nation (my geneology and personal legacy) and because as an international campus we benefit from incoorporating the thinking and ways of "Elder-Rich" cultural traditions of Eastern Nations. I especially thank my peers who have taught their ways with me, Nadja, Kim, and Raj." (Interview with Harmony Brook, by Weston Scott Davis -3rdYear, on Tuesday 11/2/10.)
To begin exploring facets of the elderworld, visit...
http://www.eldercarelink.com/Go/Nursing-Homes/Investigating-the-Culture-Change-in-Nursing-Home-Care.htm
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