Tom DrummondJun 7, 2024
https://tomdrummond.com/thinking-politically/foundation-15/ #earlychildhoodeducation #education #childcare #childadvocates #youngchildren #valuesweshare
Treating Children Compassionately - Tom Drummond

Treating Children Compassionately A question to consider: how would you like to be treated if you were a child in your program? The answers may guide our care. I realize I forget to treat children compassionately. I can easily tune out the experience each child is having right now. Lots of other stuff fills my

Tom Drummond - Resources & Writings
Show threadTom DrummondFeb 26, 2023
@esheninger Democracy can be defined by having a voice in the organizations that affect your life. Why do we not start our meetings with that blessing? #democracy #education #educators #edutooters #ethics #valuesweshare
Show threadTom DrummondFeb 2, 2023
@ricardoharvin @Penguinflight Id like to see these word spoken at the end of every newscast and every school assembly and included in the masthead of every major news publication. #wordstoliveby #journalism #society #valuesweshare
Show threadTom DrummondJan 24, 2023
Enterprise Talk; Children’s Conversations; Call Out Coercion; Treating Children Compassionately. #earlyed #racism #WhiteSupremacy #adultsupremacy #childhood #valuesweshare #education articles at tomdrummond.com
Show threadTom DrummondDec 31, 2022
@BushinskiSusan @MichiganCJ @jeffmoore without a community. So many people have been traumatized by school. “Repair our world” #valuesweshare @edutooters @edutooter
Show threadTom DrummondDec 30, 2022
@jeffmoore @edutooters @edutooter Values, when discussed, tweaked, and agreed upon can offer a referent to the meaning of democracy and a renewal of courage in times of confusion. #diligence in a word. Here is a proposal for a beginning. Seven valuesweshare. #valuesweshare #edutooter #education #democracy
Show threadTom DrummondDec 21, 2022
@dunkindona #valuesweshare could be the guides for democracy #democracy
Tom DrummondDec 19, 2022
#introduction retired college instructor in Seattle in early childhood education. A direct descendant of John Dewey’s students, I grew up when education was a valued public investment. I work to sustain Dewey’s lineage with young children and college students (before and after K-12 years of relative imprisonment). I have put online resources to carry on the work. It’s all free and unlike anything you have seen. tomdrummond.com #highered #sotl #earlychildhood #pedagogy #valuesweshare #democracy
Tom DrummondDec 16, 2022
TRUST
We listen carefully to discover the ways of being of others as we stay truthful ourselves.
What others choose to do is how they are being in this here and now; it says nothing of the future.
We maintain our faith and love, unconditionally.
We listen.
Responsibility emerges through trust.
When trust is a value, we remain aware of the fundamental goodness that comes with being human.
#valuesweshare #trust #democracy
Tom DrummondDec 16, 2022
WHOLENESS
We appreciate others, young and old, as whole, competent, capable human beings, connected to other children and adults.
Humans are an indefinite, integrated complexity — with bodies, minds, emotions, creativity, history, cultures and identity.
Children are not bearing needs, nor are they incomplete.
Children, parents and members of the community are competent.
When wholeness is a value, we remain aware of the fundamental goodness of being human. #valuesweshare #democracy #joy