Hawthorne 2 Bilingual Alternative

Hawthorne 2 Bilingual Alternative

Welcome to the Hawthorne II (deux) Bilingual Alternative Primary School website, where the students, staff, and parents get to tell it like it is to the whole wide world (WWW :).

Learning FROM nature, not just ABOUT nature · [1 comment] · 2008-10-24 14:15 [more]

A mind-opening talk about how we can learn from Nature’s ways to evolve sustainable systems. So, instead of trying to invent new technologies with little regard for their long-term impacts, maybe we could copy Nature’s “inventions” so the stuff we build actually lasts longer and doesn’t break our world.

TED talk by Michael Pollan · [1 comment] · 2008-02-12 17:11 [more]

He’s the author of several books on our relationship to the environment and food.

More TED talks on education · 2008-01-21 17:56 [more]

The vast majority of talks at TED.COM are mind-blowing. Here’s a sampling focused on education…

Do schools kill creativity? · 2007-09-28 09:59 [more]

Sir Ken Robinson speaks eloquently about the importance of creativity in evolution and education. This Does Schools kill creativity? movie is a terrific 20-minute talk.