Jane Eyre Sisterhood

Friday night's "Supper on the Green" launches Palladio International's very first multi-level initiative to enlighten our future young women of the world ... our Tweens!  Charlotte Bronte's extraordinary tale of personal awakening, societal navigation, and discerning authentic love... that quality meriting life-generating marriage (vs. stagnation, suffocation, or simply subsisting) ... will be experienced for this entire summer upcoming!

How many women today -struggling through poorly pieced-together marriages (or worse consigned for life, or restabilizing senses from the bleaklands of divorce) could possibly suspect that a young woman author from a cultural period more than one hundred and fifty years ago, could educate us fully today.  Through Jand Eyre's character and consciousness (of internal and external experience) multiplied across her profound capacity for explicit articulation,  Charlotte lays out the territory for every woman alive today.

For the casualties of non-true love, these questions crossed the threshold of your young inexperienced mind: "Is this true love?" Does he really love me, or am I simply useful to him?" "If I settle for less than, what are the costs to me and my children afterwards?"


Ladies, these questions cross all female minds. Many of us, in this planetary culture right here and now, have internalized the demands of our cultural training thus we do not value our innocence and altrusim  sufficiently to  make the time and space and gain freedom from fear of naught to find real true answers to these typical questions of the female heart and soul.

Our younger readiest-to-learn sisters,  our tweens,  at the latest (unfortunately research notes that children are gender-acculturated by age five through cultural osmosis!) still have time to re-educate, re-inform, revise their concepts of who they are, what talents inform them, what they want for themselves and their children to come (if they choose to devote body, mind, and emotions to cultivating offspring.)

"Still have time" - that is, if we support them through our messages and "metal" at home, in school, with media and in marketplace! And at Palladio International we do.  This is why our high school girls are "sistering" our middle school girls.  AND OUR GLOBAL PARENTS MENTOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS (and their Guardians), and our Community Consortiums and Councils guide our global parents (and all Guardians),  and our research teams are deconstructing longitudinal results and feeding our networks and developing retreat workshops!

Calling All Upper (AKA Middle) School Students...opportunity for a Contribution of Great Merit project!

Dear Stakeholders!

Our school community is accepting applications now for membership on the R&D Council.  Mail applications to sb2822@columbia.edu.  Parameters for the MICROLAB follow in a letter to Friends: 

Friends,

I commend your leadership team for writing a clear and specific set of recommendations that seem well-linked to the data (I did not read the original report, nor of course seen the actual data, nor been privy to how the data was gathered). What I recommend to you is a most effective model that fosters collaborative on-going research and clinical practice by all stakeholders (faculty, administration, parents, and students):

1. request a team assembled of all stakeholders (students, parents, teachers, administrators: only those intimately engaged with classroom learning and instruction)
2. this team sets up a Clinic Classroom (CC) designed to model positive/cooperative practices by each population of the stakeholders
3. the content of the classroom might be a course in study skills (pertinent to any content course)
4. any teacher or administrator can use CC to model pedagogy (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK") 
5. any student can offer to participate in the planning, design, learning experience (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
6. any parent, community adult, student, or teacher can observe CC practices (preceded by a brief written proposal/interview with team's "OK")
7. CC would also provide any stakeholder an opportunity to gather students, design curriculum, and select pedagogy to experimentation/revision/instructional learning on an on-going basis.
8. CC can begin small and grow organically as needed (i.e. take place during he lunch period times to allow for the greatest number of teachers and students to participate/create the CC climate and content 
9. CC becomes then a kind of MICROLAB for collaborative study of all stakeholders by all the stakeholders ...thus fostering unity, on-going research, and the truth about education:a collaborative process among all the stakeholders, rather than a "hierarchy" public education must acknowledge the essential interdependence among each stakeholder population, and that any human endeavor improves only overtime with concerted efforts that design-deliver-disassemble-design to deliver again!  
10. Education is all about learning and updating.  The human climate must welcome risk-taking, respect for each, on-going dialogue and development of all stakeholders. It must be free of bureaucratic controls.