JeanneSimons

The state of education in America

This is a FYI post of a slightly dated PowerPoint presented at the Massachusetts STEM II (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Summit in 2005 by Katie Haycock. It provides a pretty self explanatory view of education, particularly in mathematics in America. It provides an... Read More

New Year's Prayers

I think it would be beautiful to have a place to enter public prayers for the New Year. Maybe somehow together we can bring about positive change in this world. Please share your prayers for our world with all of us.... I hope you all have the most wonderful and fulfilling of New... Read More

Integral sometimes seems to make problem solving more difficult

As I work within the integral perspective in my day to day work in urban school reform at a district and state level, I have come to find that although my integral perspective allows me to see the world much more clearly and in its entirety, it also makes wrapping my mind around a... Read More

Always Different?

I am, at least to some extent, participating in this forum because I crave others who think as I do about they same things I like to think about. By no means do I mean that they should agree with me, but that we would be able to have wonderful, deep, intellectual conversations. I have... Read More

The Effect of a Diagnosis on Patient Quality of Life

 ... Modern medicine relies on a compartmentalized approach to diagnosing and treating patients. Although this approach varies from the more "whole patient" approach commonly observed in eastern medical theories where establishing and maintaining health is the priority, it... Read More