Why "Wind Rose Homeschool Academy"?
Names matter. Names are important. They communicate our values and hopes. They are a choice. They are how we say, "This is what this thing is and what it means to us and what we hope it means to you." The weight of choosing the right words carries into all of our work with our children. In his book Choice Words , Peter Johnston shows the power the language teachers use have in the way children learn and think about themselves. He writes, "Teachers play a critical role in arranging the discursive histories from which these children speak. Talk is the central tool of their trade. With it, they mediate children's activity and experience, and help them make sense of learning, literacy, life, and themselves." Naming our group was a responsibility of much consequence; we were naming ourselves and our children, setting our roles in place. Thus, we weren't going to take the naming of our homsechool group lightly. A wind rose is very simila...