Guest guest Posted September 15, 2009 Report Share Posted September 15, 2009 Sat Nam Ji, I am at Miri Piri for a few months serving as an Assistant Principal of Academics to facilitate student centered instruction at the school that Yogi Bhajan created. I am Miri Piri at a very reduced salary, room, and board until December. It is great to be on the ground here and now that I am settled in, I hope to get involved once more with the KY listserv. We have several needs and many exciting things are happening at Miri Piri. I hope to be able to share more with you as time permits. Right now we have a two needs for staff-- possibly as sevadors if any of you are interested: (1) a math teacher. Our longtime math teacher has been ill and is resigning. and (2) a mukhijethadar or residential life staff. For both of these positions, it is possible that we might be able to pay airfare and set up an arrangement for room and board similar to mine. If you are interested, please send an email to Ravi If any of you are interested in other short term ventures here please let me know. We had two individuals serving as sevadors earlier this year already. Blessings, Ravi Kaur (of Vienna, VA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Thank you Ravi Kaur, and here's to lots of emails to you from many of the 3,000 worldwide members of 3HO's international . I want everyone to know how proud I am of Ravi's bringing her vast education experience and talent to the school that exists for each of us, to train the next generation - the first real Aquarian generation - in consciousness. I want to share a bit about Miri Piri, hoping each of you plans, even for a decade from now, to get to India to offer your seva at this sanctuary, at this ideal that exists for each of us. 2004 was an avalanche of change for me. For various reasons I ended up in India, on Gurmukh's yatra in Rishikesh, and then volunteering teaching at Miri Piri Academy. I had never taught before, but I had 15 years of Washington, D.C. political experience to share, and doing so in a context of kundalini yoga was an opportunity of a lifetime. I got to go on Miri Piri's field trips, including to Goindwal, where we test our human bounds of capacity, chanting japji between 84 granite steps. A half day away lie the Himalaya, ready for our hiking and relaxing. Get there if you can, or if you WANT! Promise your soul you will make it happen, and when the time is right, you will. Having Ravi there adds gravitas to what already is an internationally qualified lower and upper school. Ravi is a PhD education trainer who got me last year into my current job - as a history teacher in an inner city charter school in Washington, D.C. When she visited me one day and I was struggling to manage my class of hyper and misbehaving kids, she quickly settled them down with a quick quiz with a rubric that contained a " behavioral " element in the grade. I used that rubric the whole year, allowing the kids to misbehave - but at the risk of sacrificing their grade. It started to have an impact. Ravi gave me countless pieces of advice, helping me avoid quitting. Now I'm in my second year teaching (after having lobbied for 20 years), and now I have the added enjoyment of seeing Ravi and Miri Piri together, to take the school to the next step of pedagogical honing. Put Miri Piri in your thoughts, please. What other school combines kundalini yoga, spirituality, sound education, athletics, contemplation and service, in a country that, along with China, holds the keys to future opportunity on Earth? P.S. Check out Miri Piri's sharp website, www.miripiriacademy.org/, and tell me you don't wish you had a chance to go there as a kid, or wouldn't be thrilled to give your child the chance to have this experience, compared to the awful prison-like time so many teenagers have in the bloated, almost-dangerous public schools of the US. Sat nam, Amar Atma Kundalini-Yoga , " ravivienna " <christine.mason4 wrote: > > Sat Nam Ji, > > I am at Miri Piri for a few months serving as an Assistant Principal of Academics to facilitate student centered instruction at the school that Yogi Bhajan created. I am Miri Piri at a very reduced salary, room, and board until December. > > It is great to be on the ground here and now that I am settled in, I hope to get involved once more with the KY listserv. > > We have several needs and many exciting things are happening at Miri Piri. I hope to be able to share more with you as time permits. > > Right now we have a two needs for staff-- possibly as sevadors if any of you are interested: (1) a math teacher. Our longtime math teacher has been ill and is resigning. and (2) a mukhijethadar or residential life staff. For both of these positions, it is possible that we might be able to pay airfare and set up an arrangement for room and board similar to mine. > > If you are interested, please send an email to Ravi > > If any of you are interested in other short term ventures here please let me know. We had two individuals serving as sevadors earlier this year already. > > Blessings, > Ravi Kaur (of Vienna, VA) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Sat Nam Amar Atma, Just a comment following your latest post--you mentioned that Ravi settled your kids down by giving them a quiz that contained a " behavioral element in the grade " . This really works well, but just to let you know that us teachers in Ontario (Canada) are prohibited to do this. Why, you may ask? Because the grade the student receives isn't an accurate reflection of their acquired knowledge, but a hodge podge of how well they behaved in class and how well they understand the material--in other words, if you give a quiz to test a math concept, are you really evaluating their knowledge in math exclusively, or also evaluating how well they behave in class? I can see advantages to both sides, and as with everything, nothing's perfect, but I just thought you'd like to know how it works elsewhere. Blessings, Nadh > Having Ravi there adds gravitas to what already is an internationally qualified lower and upper school. Ravi is a PhD education trainer who got me last year into my current job - as a history teacher in an inner city charter school in Washington, D.C. When she visited me one day and I was struggling to manage my class of hyper and misbehaving kids, she quickly settled them down with a quick quiz with a rubric that contained a " behavioral " element in the grade. I used that rubric the whole year, allowing the kids to misbehave - but at the risk of sacrificing their grade. It started to have an impact. Ravi gave me countless pieces of advice, helping me avoid quitting. Now I'm in my second year teaching (after having lobbied for 20 years), and now I have the added enjoyment of seeing Ravi and Miri Piri together, to take the school to the next step of pedagogical honing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 Sat Nam Check out www.marvinmarshall.com. He was a HS principle and has an Aquarian approach to class management for all grades in elementary and HS. GuruBandhu Kundalini-Yoga , " Yves " <terrarium44 wrote: > > Sat Nam Amar Atma, > > Just a comment following your latest post--you mentioned that Ravi settled your kids down by giving them a quiz that contained a " behavioral element in the grade " . This really works well, but just to let you know that us teachers in Ontario (Canada) are prohibited to do this. Why, you may ask? Because the grade the student receives isn't an accurate reflection of their acquired knowledge, but a hodge podge of how well they behaved in class and how well they understand the material--in other words, if you give a quiz to test a math concept, are you really evaluating their knowledge in math exclusively, or also evaluating how well they behave in class? > > I can see advantages to both sides, and as with everything, nothing's perfect, but I just thought you'd like to know how it works elsewhere. > > Blessings, > > Nadh > > > > Having Ravi there adds gravitas to what already is an internationally qualified lower and upper school. Ravi is a PhD education trainer who got me last year into my current job - as a history teacher in an inner city charter school in Washington, D.C. When she visited me one day and I was struggling to manage my class of hyper and misbehaving kids, she quickly settled them down with a quick quiz with a rubric that contained a " behavioral " element in the grade. I used that rubric the whole year, allowing the kids to misbehave - but at the risk of sacrificing their grade. It started to have an impact. Ravi gave me countless pieces of advice, helping me avoid quitting. Now I'm in my second year teaching (after having lobbied for 20 years), and now I have the added enjoyment of seeing Ravi and Miri Piri together, to take the school to the next step of pedagogical honing. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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