Practices

Gardeners of Human Potential

How do we create Practices that expose and leverage student capacity so it is transferred into cognition, passion, and learning? What Practices cause students to feel their brains differently so they can effectively respond to the Climate Crisis? How do teachers from across the disciplines "climatize" their curriculum, so that their Practices more effectively respond to the Climate Crisis?

A core pillar in TEA is Practices. By Practices we mean tilting our attitude towards our own teaching in the same way that we might practice Yoga, for example. TEA trains faculty to think of Practices a mindset, a mental playground, a pathway through the brambles, even rituals to rewire the brain. 

TEA works with teachers to find new angles in the classroom. Every teacher may love her course content, but the students’ relationship to the content is paramount—so how do we design around relationship? What are the practices that grow relationship? Relationship between student and teacher, between student and the aggrieved planet.