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We need to consistently build credibility & honor the value of learning to make it purposeful, respectful, and enjoyable to students, so they’ll want to Go to School!
“I understand the value of schools operating in a businesslike manner, delivering & being held accountable to the profit margin, not only in well balanced financial statements, but in how well student learning is progressing and meeting advancing standards! Passing what I know, onward to others who will benefit, gives my life renewed meaning.”
…..Sharon Quinn
Eye Opening Experience Urges Founding of AKRNA Foundation
A Shared Journal Note from One of Our Founders, Sharon Quinn Teens Need to Know We Love & Care for Them! “I Need to Know You Care About Me…” “Several years ago, I personally sat in a room before a panel of teens that had been assembled by Oklahoma State Superintendent, Sandy Garret, and looked these disheartened and angry students in their eyes as they made heart-wrenchingly clear to all attendees, ‘We don’t feel like you care about us…Why not??’ Their compelling and brave plea lingers to this...
read moreValedictorian Graduate Speaks UP!
Erica Goldson is a valedictorian graduate from Coxsackie-Athens High School. She gives quite a speech to her audience and encourages a hard look at the state of education. She invites people to start a pedagogic movement. A.K.R.N.A’s Educational Revolution by Evolution is an answer to a growing awareness that education cannot continue as it is. I’ve personally and professionally come to understand how-to turn this tide, and keeping that info to myself seems unconscionable. So, I reach back with a nonprofit dedicated to...
read moreIt IS Time to Act!
Antakarana was founded so this child wouldn’t have to worry about his educational future any longer… We’ll teach you how to inspire meaningful purpose in students, teach for learning skills, not memorization. Skills that are essential curriculum inclusions and can no longer be left out are critical & creative thinking, mutuality of respect, communication, collaboration, self discipline, win-win relating,and inner centering, how to make learning enjoyable. To sit on the answers we have, would not be the...
read moreRapport Makes Us Feel We DO Matter
Rapport is a key skill woven into the core of all Matea training and lies at the heart of all Antakarana Co-Creation Learning Projects – A.K.R.N.A. Rapport takes on many expressions from kindness, sharing, spending time with someone, phoning someone to hear their voice, a visit to an ailing friend, collaboration, as well as a growing number of nonprofit mission statements which reflect concerns and avid dedications to their work that, essentially, are aimed at building more rapport in our world so that life will be experienced more...
read moreWhy Our Mission Advocates Systems Thinking
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series 3 Unifying Priniciples of a Successful Educational Reform Formula A.K.R.N.A Brings Unifying Principles into Educational Reform as Integral to Creating a Long Term 21st Century Solution In this article of the series, we address the 1st Principle of a successful formula for educational reform: Systems Thinking = Critical Thinking = Strategic Thinking Synthesis is a Core Component of Systems Thinking & Systems Thinking IS Strategically Focused on Results Bucky Fuller was...
read moreClassrooms Need to Be Alive Systems
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series 3 Unifying Priniciples of a Successful Educational Reform Formula We are a non-profit organization structured for impacting society & individuals to reach out of the proverbial “box” by overcoming their fear of uncertainty with change, so they can & WILL engage their full potential, on the physical, mental, emotional and Spiritual levels of their being. This speaks to the integrity and healthiness of being whole and educating from open ended, alive, & interactive...
read moreRapport Driven Education Teaches Collaboration
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series 3 Unifying Priniciples of a Successful Educational Reform Formula A.K.R.N.A Brings Unifying Principles into Educational Reform as Integral to Creating a Long Term 21st Century Solution In this article of the series we’ll addresses the 2nd Principle of a successful formula for educational reform: Non-competitive Relating in order to Birth Collaborative Living for a World Oriented Towards Peace Image by Corbis Non-Competitive Relating Honors the Heart of Our...
read moreWhat Makes A.K.R.N.A. Educational Reform Different?
What Makes Antakarana Co-creation Learning Projects Different? It’s flexible education sustainability package addressing a wholism of learning needs that range from conception to age 21, including training for parents, teachers, and students. We provide a rich platform of engaging change via a modular learning and curriculum approach in order to advance education reform capable of meeting a wider range of readiness to change. This approach allows for pacing change while nurturing confidence in solutions with recognizable learning...
read moreOur Vision is Always Green & Growing -Pt2
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Our Vision is Always Green & Growing What Our Funding Allocation Plan Looks Like… Our funding goals are set to provide facilities & teaching for training, as well as to initiate scholarships for sensitive applicants who are unable to pay for the education they need in order to transcend their economic shortages that have been keeping them anchored to the paltry shores of being unproductive in helping themselves. We’d like to provide scholarships to those seeking Matea teaching...
read moreOur Vision is Always Green & Growing -Pt1
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Our Vision is Always Green & Growing A Cut Above “Norm” We focus on creating an enlightening future, and we’ve chosen education as our platform to accomplish this never-ending goal. We are structure-function and system thinkers, much like Bucky Fuller, who realized synthesis coupled with open-ended strategies is an essential element to meet a task like this with success. Creating & teaching today, in a way capable of adjusting as the future keeps evolving, is not a dream...
read moreJOIN Our Educational Revolution by Evolution
Time to Stop the Insane Notion of Kids “Falling through the Cracks” as an Acceptable Loss! Today we avidly invite you to explore the potential of a Peaceful & Powerful Re-volution by Evolution in Education for 21st Century Prepared Grads as the answer for your child’s or grandchild’s future. >>>Evolution means gradual reform, yet, with a steady results orientation. >>>We’re talking about a healing type of educational reform that reconnects with healthy functioning >>for teaching...
read moreHow People Learn 101
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Born to Learn by Born to LearnSharing is Caring and the Web Makes that a Delight… In continuing our efforts to help people understand how people learn, I write this article and play a little relay and networking by sharing onward a neat video for you to watch. I’ve stumbled across this wonderful site and choose to share with you the essence of an article I was going to write by incorporating their little videos with big messages. I see no value in re-inventing the wheel, and I’m...
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