To prepare for its 33rd academic year, numerous Rainbow Mountain faculty members attended the following workshops during their 2009 summer break: Orton Gillingham Reading Techniques; The Responsive Classroom; Waldorf Intensives; The Life of the Inner Child; and the Passageworks Institute. RMCS executive director, Renee Owen, feels strongly about providing professional development for her faculty and has scheduled early release days for students during 2009-2010 so the entire faculty will have adequate time for additional training days as well as collaborative curriculum planning periods with their fellow teachers.
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Faculty Training
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Spirituality in the Classroom
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Spirituality in the Classroom
In this day and age, it is sometimes easy to find ourselves tip-toeing around the subject of spirituality, particularly when it relates to the classroom. After all, we reside in a country founded by many who fled religious persecution, who passionately believed in spiritual freedom and whose ideals, since, have been maintained by a strict adherence to separation of church and state. So, taking into context our country’s history and a world that is still, today – feverishly, and relentlessly – waging wars over religious differences, it is not surprising that spirituality can sometimes be a difficult subject to broach.
