Aloha Kākou, thank you for visiting TeachingWithAloha.org,

We’re in a time of transition here as you might have guessed, seeing that our last postings were done during December of 2009.

Dean Boyer, who previously had been our Mea Ho‘okipa here, had received one of those fabulous offers too good to refuse, and I sincerely wished him well, immensely happy about his well-deserved good fortune. Unfortunately, I was not able to continue with this site within its intended focus on education and the teaching profession without Dean’s active involvement.

Therefore, here’s what’s happening as the “constants and changes” I refer to in my post title:

Teaching with Aloha™ is being brought into the fold of my Workplace Aloha School and Managing with Aloha University — at least for now. You can read more about those teaching entities over at Say Leadership Coaching via this link.

Though we will not be updating this blog for the time being, Teaching with Aloha™ will continue with “bringing our Universal Values of Aloha to the Art and Heart of Teaching” as our tagline says above in the blog banner, for it is the only way we aspire to teach in my Managing with Aloha family of companies. In doing so, we will no longer focus on education and academia as an industry, but on teaching as a more inclusive and far-reaching verb: “Teaching with Aloha™” will refer to what all teaching is: the sharing we can do as we impart our skills and knowledge to others, helping them grow as they thrill to the learning experience. Our ‘classroom setting’ will remain the nineteen values of the Managing with Aloha philosophy.

If you have a subscription I hope you’ll hang onto it as the best way to receive future updates. There may be a day in our future where TeachingwithAloha.org returns as a newly independent entity, and when it does, you’ll then be among the first to know about it!

Meanwhile, you might consider a subscription to my blog as well: Joining the Ho‘ohana Community over on TalkingStory.org remains the best way to keep up with me. I’ve just posted an update of sorts today which will get you caught up there:

A Ho‘ohana Talk Story: April 2010

These links (all at Talking Story) may also be of interest:
You will see how passionate we can be there about learning!

  1. About Talking Story and The Care and Feeding of your Talking Story Subscription
  2. Learning Managing with Aloha: 9 Key Concepts
  3. Values are the Bedrock of Hard Reality
  4. We Learn Best from Other People
  5. When Learning Gets Overwhelming

Mahalo nui loa. Thank you so much for being part of the TeachingWithAloha.org community. I look forward to seeing you over at Talking Story where we Ho‘ohana together, Kākou, in our learning and co-teaching.

With much aloha,
Rosa

Workplace Aloha Coach and Author

Workplace Aloha Coach and Author Rosa Say

Our Language of Intention

TWA Glossary Entries:
Learning: A human superpower
Teaching: Enabling and growing the learning superpower
Teaching Ho‘ohana: A teacher’s value-driven intention with learning the art and heart of teaching

Source: Why Choose Aloha Values?

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Found this posting over at the Leading Blog, a gem written by Michael McKinney (spend some time there one weekend morning with your coffee, he will get you to think about several teaching / leading connections): He begins:

Education Makes a Difference in How We Treat Each Other

Much of what we do everyday involves some kind of teaching—conveying information to others. We can be enlightened by the discussions from the educational arena on what it means to teach and how people learn. Teaching done right is really a labor of love. It’s having a mind oriented toward the future; seeing a bigger picture beyond what is actually being taught in the present.

Do click over and read the rest. Another quick quote:

“… the faculty at the Laboratory Schools are carefully chosen not just for their expertise but “because of their character and because they believe that education can make a difference in how human beings treat each other.”

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Teacher, thou art a Santa Elf

December 5, 2009

This is the first Christmas my children are no longer in school, for they both graduated from college this past May, at the conclusion of the Spring Semester. It has given me this curiosity about what they will give me this Christmas, and not because I need any gift in particular, but because I know [...]

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Tacit approval in the classroom

November 29, 2009

In a recent article entitled Tacit Approval: Don’t you dare give it! Rosa wrote the following (I have taken the liberty to edit into a classroom setting): Tacit approval happens when: a) a student does something wrong b) you become aware of it c) that student and/or others within your classroom are aware of both [...]

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Following and leading

November 22, 2009

Bottom line, we underestimate the power of a good influence.

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Step by step

November 9, 2009

A little reminder…teaching students is a step-by-step process. Days will come when we stumble, fall down, but other days will be filled with the freedom of an unhindered walk! Enjoy each day, each step. After all, teaching with aloha is about process more than product!

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With a good-by in mind

November 2, 2009

Aloha is also a word of parting. In our well-ordered structures, we plan our year and know when things are going to happen. It’s the nature of being a teacher. However, life does not always fit into our plans. Today, several teachers’ plans radically and permanently changed. Across the street from my office is our [...]

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The Beautifully Giving 5 Minute Conversation

November 1, 2009

Have you tried the Daily 5 Minutes? The Daily 5 Minutes is a new conversation you give to someone else as a gift – a listening gift from you. When you offer to “Take 5″ with someone, and they’ve been let in on what that D5M invitation means, you are saying, “For the next 5 [...]

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Reordering through simplifying

October 29, 2009

Everything around us works against reordering and simplifying. Advertisements have one goal – to make us discontent, dissatisfied with who we are and what we have. Enough is never enough! This attitude can creep into our teaching and to students through their teachers. Life’s Greatest Stresses (1990′s) Crowds Noise Pace of Life According to Time Magazine, [...]

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From Schoolyard to Workplace – Successfully

October 19, 2009

Aloha, it’s Rosa. I am writing for Teaching with Aloha today, to ask you to enroll in a critically important goal with me. I ask you to get involved in whatever way you can within your own circle of influence, even if that ‘circle’ is as small and tight as the realistic coaching conversation between [...]

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