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Above: A collaborative art installation titled “Our Garden of Responsibility."
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From the Head of School
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“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” This was written by Eleanor Roosevelt in her book You Learn By Living, published in 1960.
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What does it look like to “work at peace” for a child, for a school, for us adults?
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The International Day of Peace, or World Peace Day, was established in 1981 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire.
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In 2022, hate crimes rose nationwide by 22%, in California by 20%, and in Ventura County by 11.4%. This is happening in our community. We must rely on the strength of our interconnectedness to stand up in the smaller moments of casual cruelty – moments when derogatory language is used irresponsibly or thoughtlessly, or perhaps even maliciously, by our peers. Words can be seeds of pain and violence, and they can certainly be barriers to belonging. As a school, as parents, and as decent human beings, we can, and should, shine a bright light on hate and violence in all its forms.
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The 2023 Peace Day Universal Declaration, as set forth by the UN, reads: “The International Day of Peace encourages all youth to be ambitious in their engagement as positive and constructive social agents, to join the movement to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and contribute to building sustainable peace. Together we can help to lead our world towards a greener, more equitable, just, and secure future for all.”
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At Oak Grove, we acknowledged World Peace Day with a week-long exploration into the notion of peace. Throughout campus, we celebrated Peace Week within the classroom curriculum, through the construction of a collaborative art installation titled “Our Garden of Responsibility,” culminating in an all-school assembly last Friday. Although an anti-bias curriculum is woven throughout everyday learning at Oak Grove, teachers dedicated more explicit time to anti-bias learning and exploring our shared responsibility for our world.
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It is not enough to talk about peace. We must work at it.
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Save the Date — November 4th
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OPEN HOUSE & ALL SCHOOL SHOWCASE is on Saturday, November 4th, from 1-4pm.
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Join us for a fun and informative day, including campus tours, complimentary vegetarian lunch, meeting with faculty, open classrooms with student exhibits, live entertainment, and more! RSVP or learn more at the link below.
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Currently enrolled parents will RSVP in ParentSquare
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Lizard Talk – Being Precedes Thought
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We welcomed the first speaker, Geetha Waters, to our new series of Lizard Talks for the 2023-2024 school year.
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Tap below to learn more about Geetha's presentation and connection to Krishnamurti schools.
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Our Community of Learning
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A message from Dean of Studies Will Hornblower during this year’s Back-to-School Night event.
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The Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck said: “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.”
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Our Fall camping trips are designed to bring the High School and Middle School together early in the year to orient and integrate new and returning students and teachers.
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“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
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K Quote
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“Thought is the response of memory, experience and knowledge, stored up in the brain. Thought is never new, it is always from the past. Thought, therefore, is limited. Although it has created innumerable problems yet it has also created the extraordinary world of technology – marvellous things it has done. But thought is limited because it is the outcome of the past, therefore it is time-binding. Thought pretends to conceive the immeasurable, the timeless, something beyond itself; it projects all kinds of illusory images. Can one observe the whole movement of desire without images and the pursuit of those images; without thereby becoming involved in frustration, in the hope of fulfilment and so on? Just to observe the whole movement of desire; to become aware of it.”
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Socially Speaking
A recent Instagram post —
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A brief video of the science lab overhaul.
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