Overview Central Terms Sign Language Mastery Big Picture Training

This book contains a vocabulary which keeps our daily conversations with children firmly anchored in the U School’s ideals. The Lexicon helps people understand how they can be powerful problem solvers, helps children and grown-ups communicate with less friction, and supports social-emotional development and executive function.
1. What is the U School Lexicon?
An overview of the philosophy behind the book, and an introduction to its content:
2. What are the central terms in the Lexicon?
A recitation of the semi-visual poem, “The Way of the Lexicon” (page 73):
3. Why does the Lexicon incorporate sign language?
Because it is extraordinarily useful:
4. How does one master the Lexicon?
Among other ways, through collaborative storytelling:
5. What’s the big picture?
Educating more peaceful humans, a handful of words at a time:
6. Training opportunities!
A main goal of the Lexicon is for teachers and families to work alongside each other to build a collective understanding through shared language with the children in their care. Below are some courses and workshop opportunities to support that goal offered by the U School and its sister organization, Ubuntu Communities. Click the buttons below to learn more or register.
*All courses are free for U School staff, and offered on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale for U School families.
This is a 6-hour asynchronous training for educators and families hosted on Teachable.
Workshop-style gatherings of families and educators to discuss the full range of joys, trials, successes, and challenges we face in cultivating inspiring environments and experiences for children. These conversations emphasize the U School Lexicon as a platform for productive discourse at your child’s level.
Mindful Parents & Educators (MP&E)
The same awareness powers that the Lexicon helps us discuss with children are worthy of deep study for grown-ups, as well. This 12-hour asynchronous course offers a deep dive into your own happiness and the quality of relationships you share with the children in your care. This territory is directly relevant to ways the Lexicon can inform our choices of words and actions in children’s presence: Awareness In, Choices Out!
Overview Central Terms Sign Language Mastery Big Picture Training
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