About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
Teacher as Transformer 
beautiful….
Yes, it was a good share from Otrazhenie. It really speaks to the situation.
Good Post.
A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wanted, would develop “entitlement mentality” and would always put himself first. He would be ignorant of his parent’s efforts.
When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him.
For this kind of people, who may be good academically, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement.
You can let your kid live in a big house, give him a Driver & Car for going around, Eat a Good Meal, learn Piano, Watch a Big Screen TV. But when you are Cutting Grass, please let them experience it. After a Meal, let them Wash their Plates and Bowls together with their Brothers and Sisters. Tell them to Travel in Public Bus, It is not because you do not have Money for Car or to Hire a Maid, but it is because you want to Love them in a right way.
You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parents are, one day their hair will Grow Grey, same as the Mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learns how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learns the ability to work with others to get things done..
You are so right.
Did you already take a look at my Graffity-in-The-Sky-Collection?
And please have a look at this:
Kind regards,
Stefan
You are a very talented person. These are great posts. Thank you for letting me know about them and inviting me to visit.
Thank you. We are just trying to filter the web a little… 😉 If you have TREE-related topics you are welcome to join us. There will be a more structured web-page coming soon. Kind regards, & keep it green!
Stefan
P.S. If you want you can have a look at the new webpage and let me know what you think about it… http://wp.mytree.ch/wordpress/
Thank you. I will be doing that.
This is a good lesson to give to children for society appears to place value on money (profit) rather than meaning.
I agree Alex. I am not sure what it takes to turn it around, but it does not appear to be our current educational systems.
What a great message and reminder! Thank you for sharing it!
Russ
You are welcome Russ.