"So many important learning to do skills simply fall through the cracks of traditional schools. Here are some skills, both simple and complex, that should be essential for any accredited high school curricula:
We are on a journey called "education". As we prepare for the Creator's House, I am reflecting on my own path of homeschooling. Here is the list from Clark Aldrich on the big skills. It is amazing how these list can be imparted to children, and this should be imparted to them, but how? Can these skills and qualities be learned through teaching? Can these skills be passed on or acquired and sought after? What does the environment where these skills are sought after look like? If we do some reverse engineering, the answer is in the real world. This is the quest for Creator's House to find and create community where we seek a way to do life in real and responsible ways. SO, who wants to journey on this quest with us?
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They just finished the very last qualifying tournament for Speech and Debate this year. We had a private ballot party where they signed their own encouraging messages on each other's ballot packages. The Ooi/Ooi Team is still going strong in loving each other and being one as a team. Proud of their hard pursuit and getting ready for the REGIONAL tournament at the end of April.
There is a unified marks of the ARTIST- GOD :)
The organization and order of this world inspire me. Seeking knowledge is seeking the understanding of His touches and His characters in this world. There were times when I felt my boots on this earth were too heavy. How can we live as Heavenly people? Can we root ourselves in the above and operate from Heaven? And breathe out His presence? We are waiting for His gathering of His people oxigenating or heaven-ating as His trees of righteousness.
Something I love about Acton school is the idea of nurturing good questions. Questions always lead to an answer or answers, and they are one of the most powerful vehicles for the life journey. Some questions will be answered with dismissal, but others will be tended with deep and meaningful searches which directly shape the path of our walk. A persistent pursuit for a year of active engagement to search for answers is something I would call a rare-beauty in education. It is slow but deep. Our children will learn to dig a well - the life source, but also to dig well :) I can't wait for our students to hold the question for their journey at Creator's House! Love War
If I cannot see them in ways that God looks at them, I am not ready to serve them. - Patricia King People are the only creation beholding the very image of God. Still, we come to observe to judge ... or to rank them without the eyes of God. He made them with His DNA. Some will say we are in the war of terror, and others will say we are in the war of economy ... maybe even religion. These are real and relevant, yet no war is more relevant than the love war. This war is near, and deep in us - often time it is under our skin. But we are made to win and victorious because Jesus has done it towards us that we are capable in His love. A love war without compromising the truth will lead victory. This is Joey and Rohaam's Bio by themselves...
and I totally bless them 110% :) Rohaam Ooi (13) excels in academics and strives to achieve excellence in what he does. From a young age, Rohaam loved to read his bible and he has blessed others through his desire to serve God in whatever future occupation he has. He is currently a part of a national speech and debate competition league, where he practices communicating effectively in order to glorify God through speech. He has been successful both in and outside of competition, and enjoys helping other people better their skills. Even in his free time, Rohaam chooses to learn about current and pending policies in the US, and enjoys researching endlessly. Aside from debate, Rohaam enjoys coaching students younger than him. Joey Ooi (16) hopes to be in a position to speak to world leaders about God's heart and plans for this world. She competes with her brother as a team in Team Policy debate through a national speech and debate league. She is thankful for the opportunities God has given to her to share messages through the NCFCA. With a heart to speak for people who cannot speak for themselves, Joey hopes to pursue law in the future, and she is thankful for the opportunity to practice communicating effectively. Joey is dedicated to her work and strives to raise the community around her to a higher standard. She is a natural leader and enjoys encouraging and praying for those around her. In her free time, she really likes naps and warm tea. The original napkin sketch for Epcot, circa 1966 The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) was an unfinished concept developed by Walt Disney. Its purpose was to be a "real city that would 'never cease to be a blueprint of the future,'" designed to stimulate American ideas for urban living. The city was planned to be a company town. [wikipedia] I recently heard this acronym “EPCOT” from my pastor and my heart fluttered with such excitement. This word breathes life and affirms the desire of our Creator’s House community. We dare into the future as EPCOT of education to build what is to come. It’s the blueprint that continues the journey of courageous Heroes to engage truth, goodness, and beauty to transform the earth - learning to learn, learning to do, and learning to be are celebrated as the future is actively drawn and pursued. We TRUST AND HONOR instead of fear and despair. If our future is truly in the hand of God, why should we be afraid to dream and act? It is our desire that we [parents and children alike] are to move with goodness and be the goodness to this world. The Father's heart calls us into our calling. So, we respond to the calling to do cities and nation, and world as His children. How does the Heaven on Earth look like when little yet powerful heirs say "yes" to radical love, kindness, and truth? Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton I have said yes to the journey into the Creator's House a year and a half ago and I want to thank Mike and Amy Ma and my dynamic and supporting husband David for enabling us to be where we are. Not one of arrival, but at a place of proactive dreaming. [I would not have been here today if it wasn't His invitation through you]
The journey so far has been empowering, with our base in the belief of the Hero's journey that is ordained by God the Father who loves unreservedly. We are putting the flag on our hill to call out the families of courage to adventure into a new education. Here students will find their hero's journey right in their playground of this universe granted to them by the Creator Himself. So, I call our journey blessed because of the One who called us and also because of those who are together on this journey. |
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