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- October 24: How we started to design the Longhouse Outdoors oven
- October 14. Expanding the Perimeter Forest. Do I love Longhouse Kids!
- Cast of Characters
- October 12: Daisaku Ikeda is at Moscow State University and talks to a group of professors about correspondence programs there. Junior reflects on the similarities between correspondence courses and the way he and some of his friends are studying.
- October 11. Sukhomlynsky, Lori, and Me: School As a Friendly Family
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(From r/LoHeidiLita) I am including this post because Junior’s comments about his school resonate with our Longhouse Project. Junior is a tenth grader who has an academic scholarship to attend a very distinguished private school. FYI, Junior, along with many of the key people at Longhouse Elem are members of the Nichiren Buddhist group, “Soka…
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In the interest of post a lot of previously written articles, drawn primarily from two Reddit sources (r/LoHeidiLita and r/SGIWhistleblowersMITA), I am going to post in reverse chronological order. When available, I will also post the date written or an estimate. I don’t know whether it’s possible on WordPress, but at one point I will…
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by Lolita My college mentor has my running permission to read and comment on my posts at the Longhouseschool.blog. I also email her additional short essays that explain our work more fully. In turn, she has given me permission to quote her emails to me as well as to paraphrase the one-on-one conversations we have.…
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From Heidi The highlight for my day yesterday was talking to Lolita (AKA “My Love”) last night about her teaching, her students, and Longhouse Elem. Early in the morning she started sending me WhatsApp videos showing 24—kids (!!!), yes, the entire school, running around the track and finally swimming. “Did you notice this? Did you…
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Written by Heidi on Reddit. This is a simplified version of a post that I put up last week. From Heidi The highlight of my day yesterday was talking to Lolita about her teaching, the kids, and Longhouse Elem. Earlier in the morning she sent me WhatsApp videos showing 24 1st and 2nd graders, yes,…
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(From Julie. What do I mean Lolita’s my “GF-Plus”? We actually are married. But this happened in a country that recognizes both same-sex and 16-year-old marriages. Of course, our marriage is not recognized here. But we are almost 18 and soon we will be wife and wife instead of GF-pluses! In the meanwhile, I’m her…
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(Lolita, here. All of my posts have been trending TLDR but today it’s TTLLDDRR! But this is such a seminal post I hope people can take the time to read it. Especially significant is “The Longhouse Constitution” developed by our Second Graders!) Starting backwards, this morning we finished the second of our sessions with our…
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(Lolita, in Oliver. BTW, “Oliver” is the name Kitten and I gave to the small previously owned “all-seasons” RV manufactured by the Oliver Travel Trailers that we had bought. Oh, and Kitten is my pet name for Heidi! Benita and Percy Maracle are Lori’s parents and my next door neighbors. They invited me over for…
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Lolita, 9:30am, in Oliver. The Maracles invited me over for brunch at 10. Heading over soon. My day off! I have so much coursework to finish. I love being an ethnographer (in training). There are so many stories to document about Longhouse Elem. I don’t want to forget any of them! At any rate, I got up…
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