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April 2022: Global Harvests that Harmonize Hearts

“Let them stare. Let them see. We will show the world harmony,” sang school children from the Osun State of Nigeria to immigrant children in Los Angeles County, in response to a recent Full-Circle Learning wisdom exchange. 

Earlier in the school year, Tarzana Elementary School’s Habits-of-Heart students set out to plant seeds of kindness. Their teacher helped them integrate academic and arts projects and send a wisdom exchange package, including hand-made gifts of tie-dyed shirts, to classmates across the ocean. Each child penned a list of inquiries to their new brothers and sisters, sharing their own upcoming plans to grow real seeds of kindness in a community garden. 

They sent their package at a time when shipping delays plagued the US Postal Service. (For a time, we wondered whether the large box would ever get as far as Lagos, let alone to the village.) After many calls to the customs office, the Nigerian wisdom exchange liaison finally reported its arrival.  Her delighted students wrote replies about their own farming projects and their process of making dye from vegetables. Their Unity Class (grades 2-3) had grown local plants as gifts for teachers. Their Patience Class (Preschoolers) had grown maize and cassava to feed the community. Their first-grade Cooperation Class had honored local orphanage founders for kindness. 

Cherishing the letters and wearing the shirts, the Nigerian children sang the Harmony song and videotaped it for their faraway family in the town of Tarzana. Meanwhile, Tarzana’s principal shared the story with joyous parents, many of them immigrants themselves. The Full-Circle Learners enjoyed knowing they could sow seeds of kindness abroad and watch them sprout. 

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Full-Circle Learning has provided teacher training or direct student-service programs at each of these 43 learning institutions in the United States between 1992 and 2020 (photo essay attached):

Arizona

  1. Professional Development, Nurtured Heart School, Tucson

‍California

(40 Programs)

Southern California

  1. Alumni Clubs
  2. Chapman University Course Materials (Social Justice Education)
  3. Children’s Enrichment Summer School and After-School programs
  4. Huntington Hotel FCL School
  5. Encino Elementary After-School Programs; Encino ProfessionalDevelopment Training
  6. Full-Circle Learning Alumni Club
  7. Cleveland Elementary School, Pasadena
  8. Full-Circle Learning Academy (inner-city charter school)
  9. King Elementary: FCL-Integrated Science Program
  10. Oak Park High Full-Circle Learning Club
  11. Phenomenex: Full-Circle Learning and Leadership and LifeSkills workshops
  12. Piru Full-Circle Learning Preschool
  13. Rancho Sespe/Piru Summer school and year-round enrichment program
  14. SANAD Cultural Preservation School
  15. Santa Ana School District professional development
  16. Spurgeon School FCL Program
  17. Tarzana Elementary: School wide Professional Development and Habits-of-Heart Club
  18. Topanga Elementary project
  19. Topanga Global Professional Development Workshops

Northern California

  1. Climate Change Agents Camp, Nevada County
  2. Community Education Initiative (CEI) Summer School – El Cerritos
  3. Diabetes Awareness Camp (co-hosted)

Professional Development Workshops in:

  1. Plumas County: Teacher Training, Quincy - multiple schools, hosted by local Plumas Audubon Society
  2. Oakland – Kaiser Corp. Building – Leadership and Life Skills
  3. San Leandro – Public Library – Full-Circle Learning
  4. San Francisco – California Community Foundation Building
  5. San Rafael – Global Wisdom Exchange Training
  6. Nevada County School District Office – Full-Circle Learning
  7. Grass Valley (Education as Transformation statewide training)
  8. Professional Development: Wisdom Exchange: Nevada City
  9. Professional Development: Service-Learning, Nevada City
  10. Zeum Museum: Joint Project for Global Schools

Florida

  1. Gainesville: Regional training workshop
  2. Hidden Oak reading program
  3. Prairie View in-school program school
  4. Jackson: Venus School professional development
  5. Rawlings Elementary professional development/in-school program

New Mexico

  1. Albuquerque Professional Development
  2. Anthony New Mexico/Anthony Texas Professional Development
  3. Professional Development, Ganado

New Jersey

  1. Newark School District Professional Development

New York

  1. New York City School District Professional Development
  2. Paul Robeson Middle School

Rhode Island

  1. Children’s Theatre Company

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