Interconnected Diversity

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✨ Free Community Gathering | Downtown Bend ✨

You’re warmly invited to Sufi Circle: The Silence Between Hearts, a free, heart-centered gathering in downtown Bend.

🗓 Sunday, February 8, 2026
🕠 5:30 PM
📍 Encore Room, The Tower Theatre (835 NW Wall Street)

This is not a performance. It’s a participatory circle of music, silence, rhythm, chant, and spontaneous poetry - a shared space for presence and connection.

✨ Come as you are. Bring your open heart.
🎟 No cost. No tickets. Just a gathering of kindred spirits.

If this resonates, feel free to pass it along to others who might be glad they came.

Documentary Film Screening with COCC Early Childhood Education and Deschutes Public Library. Learning resources will be present in the lobby for conversations and connection. A panel presentation will take place after the film with local learning specialists and advocates.

The inspiring story of a group of determined moms who band together to found the first public school for students with dyslexia in New York City - the largest school district in America.

January 15, 2026 • 6:00 pm
General admission, doors open at 5:00 PM
RESERVE NOW: https://shorturl.at/nikIC

Tickets are free of charge for this event thanks to a partnership with the Central Oregon Community College Early Childhood Education program.

Woot! Brainzzzz and bodies and changing the paradigms into ones that actually fit.

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Yep. Why are we (still) judging individuals based on a platform of problematic, heavily biased and harmful understanding of people.

I'm hearing so much talk about "grade level".

So many kids aren't at "grade level".

Grade level is a man-made concept.

For example, kids are learning letters and learning how to hold a pencil in Kindergarten. But, in today's schools, the expectation is to write an opinion about a story they just heard. We keep raising the expectations, and then complaining that kids aren't able to keep up. And then we complain about behavior when kids are telling us, and showing us, that they're having a hard time!

Make it make sense!

Kids do well IF THEY CAN!

If there's so much focus on how kids aren't working at 'grade level', maybe it's time to look at what 'grade level' is, instead of blaming kids and teachers.

Thoughts?

I'll be in the comment section with 🍿

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Wasting Time I found a pair three-year-olds holed up under our loft, surrounded by stuffed animals, cracking one another up with rhymes. ...