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News Flash: The Ahimsa School is pleased to announce the The King Center's acceptance of The Ahimsa School as an affiliate program.  This relationship provides us special permission to utilize Dr. King's priceless writings and recorded voice for education.  Thank you King Center!

 

You cannot go to a doctor to ask for a pill to give you compassion. No. You can't go to a supermarket and buy it with a big check. I think that we can explain to our brothers and sisters, especially those who are young children, that there is some secret that we have, whether educated or uneducated, or rich or poor, or this race or that race, or this culture or that culture. We are human beings. We have great potential and we can try to promote in them basic human values that I call secular ethics.       full text

HH the 14th Dalai Lama

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?


 Abraham Lincoln

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.


 Ralph Waldo Emerson

 


 

The Ahimsa School   Non-violence, Ethics, Compassion
                                                           Resources for Education
(Ahimsa is Sanskrit for non-violence)

PATH Teacher Training

PATH (Personal Accountability To Happiness) Educational Initiative,
integrated ethics and academic training. Eliana Morris, Director. Contact: elianacarioca@yahoo.com

  • 1 to 2-day introductory teacher training, $750 per day, plus travel.

  • Full-school-year comprehensive professional development package with on-site training and assessment starting at $15,500 per school (up to 5 trainees, additional trainees ).

  • we train a lead teacher for your school, includes specialized training and support for a lead teacher position to provide internal ongoing coaching as a resource for your school. This includes up to  hours of in-person on-site personal professional development by a PATH trainer plus up to an additional 30 hours of phone consultation. phone consultation monthly.

Training & Consulting

  • Personal consultation with Administrator or designee.

  • Twice per year: 8-hour on-site training for up to 10 representatives (faculty, administrators, parents).

  • Twice per year: 1 hour on-site consultation with each teacher or school representative

  • Twice per year: 4 hour leadership consultation and training for lead teacher

  • additional 30 hours of phone consultation for lead teacher over the course of the school year.

  • identify and train parent coordinator

 Implementation

  • Participating classrooms employ PATH curriculum components according to training specifications.

  • Lead teacher guides group staff development once per month.

  • Lead teacher provides personal coaching and support as needed throughout the year (minimum one meeting per year per teacher).

Curriculum Components

  • "Virtue Theater", storytelling with student participation and creative movement

  • Ethics Integrated in Academics,

  • Concentration & Imagination Activities

  • Tracking Virtues, using scientific method to examine cause and effect of virtuous activities.

  • Virtue Games

  • Gardening and Food Choices, Students will study the real-life environmental, economic, and ethical impacts of food production, land usage, resource allocation, transportation, and treatment of animals as they relate directly to their own daily consumption choices.  Garden projects are strongly encouraged.

 


 

Guest Speaker Program: The Ahimsa School has guest speakers who are available for visits to your school.   Programs include classroom or school-wide talks,  workshops for teachers &  students, faculty in-service training, and leadership consulting.  This is a fundamental aspect of the Ahimsa School mission.  So, we will be very pleased to talk with you about scheduling a visit to your school or group. Contact karl@ahimsaschool.org

Please help us provide our children with fertile educational ground for peace, compassion, non-violence, academic & ethical excellence.  Support the Ahimsa School.

Karl Straub
essay on compassion

Please contact Karl Straub 917-622-5509  for more information

Thank you for your interest and support!