We've added some new personal reflections from our founder, Jane Vella, during the pandemic. We're still celebrating Jane's upcoming 90th birthday. Join us with these words from the back porch on vulnerability, biology and oranges! Learning -- It's Biology, Baby...
More from Jane’s back porch!
This week's reflections from Jane include a new word from the wordsmith in Twogether and an imperative to create an experience! Check them out and more reflections on Our Founder page.
More Personal Reflections from Jane
Read the latest musings from the back porch of our beloved founder, Dr. Jane Vella. In this week's collection, Jane creates a new word in Disappointment vs. Dis-attention. She reflects on the quote - hope is a memory of the future in It Takes a Village. In Tears of...
New Personal Reflections from Jane
Check out some new personal reflections from GLP Founder, Jane Vella. Jane continues to share learnings and affirmations about "the ecology of Dialogue Education" with insights from physical therapy and the gift of evolution. Evolution One Small Step at a Time
Whence Depth?
My newest passion about adult learning is depth. Whence depth? How can we be sure we are inviting and challenging learners to go deep! I want learners to not only learn the surface facts and figures, but to imagine implications, to reconstruct a concept to fit a...
Tuesdays with Jane: Week #13
(Tuesdays with Jane is a virtual learning series for those wishing to read or re-read Jane's books and immediately apply their new learning to their workplace. In preparation for this task, read Chapter 12 of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach.)...
Tuesdays with Jane: Week #14
(Tuesdays with Jane is a virtual learning series for those wishing to read or re-read Jane's books and immediately apply their new learning to their workplace. In preparation for this task, read Chapter 13 of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach.) Teamwork:...
Tuesdays with Jane: Week #15
(Tuesdays with Jane is a virtual learning series for those wishing to read or re-read Jane's books and immediately apply their new learning to their workplace. In preparation for this task, read Chapter 14 of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach.)...
Tuesdays with Jane: Week #16
(Tuesdays with Jane is a virtual learning series for those wishing to read or re-read Jane's books and immediately apply their new learning to their workplace. In preparation for this task, read Chapter 15 of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach.)...
Tuesdays with Jane: Week #17
(Tuesdays with Jane is a virtual learning series for those wishing to read or re-read Jane's books and immediately apply their new learning to their workplace. In preparation for this task, read Chapter 16 of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach.) Reviewing...
Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor: The True, the Good and the Beautiful
Not in that order: but do you see the connection? I was stunned, reading William Isaacs’ 1999 book Dialogue: And the Art of Thinking Together to discover the correlation between our well-tested axiom “learning is always cognitive, affective and psychomotor” and the...
School of the 80s: Learning from Leisure, Experience, and Vulnerability
I’ve been in school, one way or the other, on both sides of the desk for the past eighty years. I have never been in a school where my learning was so delightful, my appetite for it so voracious, my joy in it so deep – as this “School of the 80s.” As I tried to...