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
Learning at Last
Every time I have tea with a friend by my fire, I learn something important. Here are two examples: Susan Johnstone came to review her design for her Presentation of her research for her M.A. As we worked, I realized for the first time that immediate indicators of...
Joy is the Measure
Paulo Freire continually asked, "What is to know?" I want to add another open question: How do you know you are right on, doing what folks truly need for their learning and yours? This week I realized: Joy is the measure. I feel and realize deep joy in learning...
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...
Towards a New Consciousness
Walter Brueggemann is a scholar of the Hebrew Scriptures. He says: Moses was not engaged in a struggle to transform a regime (in Egypt ); rather his concern was with the consciousness that undergirded and made such a regime...
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.)...