Born to Read ushered in the month of June with back-to-back trainings in Hancock and Aroostook counties. Linda Levesque, the facilitator in Ellsworth, started her training with a handout from the Center for Nonviolent Communication to convey the variety of words to describe emotions. (The list of words is also available online.) One participant had [...]
When this blog is quiet, you can be sure that it’s because Born to Read has been busy! Since my last post, we’ve worked with three different facilitators to present workshop sessions at three day-long conferences. We were disappointed that we had to cancel our own Born to Read conference, which would have taken place [...]
Here’s a report from Denise on a training in Belfast on March 9 and 16. There were 20 people in the first session, and 16 in the next, representing 7 different programs. She notes that the group had both very talkative and very quiet members. She spoke to this at the end of the first [...]
Last month, Sharon Abair led this group of 16 from a wide range of towns (Waterville, Winslow, Mercer, Oakland, Palmyra, Newport, and Belgrade) in reflections on peaceable practice. They were inspired by the assignment to try sharing the books from the bag with the children in their care. They had great activity ideas, such as [...]
Here’s a link to a video promotion from Chronicle Books:
Duck! Rabbit!
The book reminds me of Yo! Yes? in its simplicity and its pairing of two children who don’t quite see eye to eye. It’s really all about perspective-taking, which is very relevant to Peaceable Stories.
The video is well worth watching!
