Teacher as Transformer

Posted on February 25, 2013 by ivonprefontaine

This is one of those common sense lists we run across. I said to myself, “I knew this.” It is one thing to know and another to be these things. It is one of those lists worth sharing, printing, and letting touch me each day.

Simple Tom

12 Things Happy People Do Differently

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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

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Wildflower Women | February 25, 2013 at 2:47 pm

Lovely, thanks for sharing.
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- ivonprefontaine | March 1, 2013 at 12:46 am
  
  You are welcome.
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Pride in Photos Photography | February 25, 2013 at 2:51 pm

There is nothing wrong with being reminded of the important things in life…we sometimes let them slip away from us.
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- ivonprefontaine | March 1, 2013 at 12:46 am
  
  I agree. They just slip out of sight for a moment and we realize we missed them briefly only after the fact.
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mimijk | February 25, 2013 at 4:22 pm

This is a great list to keep nearby Ivon..the best reminders are like this..
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- ivonprefontaine | March 1, 2013 at 12:45 am
  
  They are great touchstones and need to be close at hand or at heart.
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Alex Jones | February 25, 2013 at 4:56 pm

Some good points there.
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 2:08 am
  
  Yes, there are. It is one of those lists that makes sense.
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lenwilliamscarver | February 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm

Very good advice Ivon, reblogging!
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 2:07 am
  
  Thank you Len.
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lenwilliamscarver | February 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm

Reblogged this on myownheart.me.
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petit4chocolatier | February 25, 2013 at 11:23 pm

Excellent!! Very true 🙂
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silentlyheardonce | February 26, 2013 at 12:24 am

I can see how working on this list will help us to be happy.
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 2:03 am
  
  It does take an effort.
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fgassette | February 26, 2013 at 1:04 am

Thanks for the reminders.

BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 2:03 am
  
  You are welcome.
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valeriedavies | February 26, 2013 at 4:12 am

Thank you, one can be be reminded often enough!!!
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 2:01 am
  
  It is always good to be reminded to be happy.
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Wendell A. Brown | February 27, 2013 at 9:28 am

IA wonderful post, these thoughts are like nuggets of wisdom, proverbs for living. When I read the book of proverbs in the bible each day as i have done over the years, no matter how many times i read them it is never enough, because it always seems like the first time again, and i find myself always thanking God for the reminder. I see your post that way…it will always be a healthy and valuable reminder! Thanks Ivon!
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- ivonprefontaine | February 27, 2013 at 2:47 pm
  
  You are so right Wendell. There are readings or visual elements of our lives when we look at them anew we see them anew. It is reminiscent of Proust’s quote of seeing new horizons with fresh eyes.
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Rebecca | February 28, 2013 at 1:26 am

I loved this!! I shared it in twitter!
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- ivonprefontaine | February 28, 2013 at 1:42 am
  
  Thank you Rebecca.
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