Philosophic Systems Institude

The Love of Wisdom project is morphing into the umbrella project for all curricula for the institute and developing the curriculum as a symbiotic triad of: curriculum development through our virtual portal, training and coaching of teachers, and consulting with educational partnering agencies. The goal is to create an effective system that aids and amplifies current systems of education in positive and enriching ways

General psi meeting tonight December 12 @ Glasbox 6 pm. We will discuss the year's developments and future plans. Come and join us!

Welcome Amit! Let me know if you need more information about the project for you discussions back home!

Here is the press release for our Inaugural event. I hope that you can make it!

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/11/04/opinion/100000002534565/the-animated-life-of-a-r-wallace.html?smid=pl-share

The power of narrative as art in science

Check out Tim Holt's review of our project :)

http://holtthink.tumblr.com/post/65615736423

I can't find pictures of either the Mineral collection at Carnagie Mellon or the tables from the exhibits at Papalote Museo del Niño. However, below is a picture of the minerals and a link to the museums.

http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibitions/default.aspx?id=8167 https://papalote.org.mx/zonas-del-museo

Thanks Miriam.

Sorry for the delay, here are the notes from the "design" meeting:

Logic in reference to the sequoia: -Recognition of patterns -Natural information present in the tree -History: *going back and forth between Kronos and Earth (quantum jump)-History of Texas in reference to the rings, history of the planet, geological history, history of the universe.

Fossil: -connection to history -time: carbon dating

Exciting news! EPISD approved the deal at Insights. I hope that you are ready for the ride! It will be an awesome one.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/latestnews/ci_24305948/episd-discuss-leasing-alamo-school-building-insights-museum

Insights is on the news, which means we are on the news...just in the shadows :)

Thanks for the photos Joe. Starting next Tuesday we will relocate our curriculum meetings and work sessions at Insights to implement our Love of Wisdom program for the Insights Center at Alamo. At a town hall meeting at the Segundo Barrio last night (October9), we got a standing ovation once we announced our plans for Alamo!

future site

Planning stage

Insights board meeting tomorrow at noon. We will present on the new advances on the curriculum Logic team project coming soon

psi+SEMAA training Sept 17 & 18 @ Putnam ES 4-7:30 pm. See attached schedule

Something to think about! These are the Next Generation Science Standards: http://www.nextgenscience.org/

Regarding the MSC (modular science center) for water, Sarah suggested checking out project WET

http://store.projectwet.org/index.php/water-activities-water-lesson-plans-educators-curriculum-guide-2-0.html

For those of you inclined to investigate how our curriculum matches/should match check out the TEA TEKS link

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/index.html

Sharing the flyer

Hello to all the folks here @ Glasbox meeting about the Curriculum and new development