Thursday, June 5, 2008

Mentors

Men • tors – trusted counselors or guides


“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. “
E. M. Forster



Mentor Books:

When Children Love to Learn – edited by Elaine Cooper
Redemptive Teaching – Donovan Graham
For the Children’s Sake – Susan Schaeffer McCauley
Educating for Life – Nicholas Wolterstorff
Brain Based Learning – Eric Jensen

There are No Children Here –Alex Kotlowitz
And You Call Yourself a Christian: Towards Responsible Charity – Robert Lupton

Reaching Out – Nouwen
The Mentored Life – James Houston
Will our Children Have Faith? – John Westerhoff
Offering the Gospel to Children – Gretchen Wolff Pritchard


Mentor Schools:

Perimeter Schools including Parkview, Perimeter, and Intown/ Atlanta, GA
Ambleside School/ Fredericksburg, TX
Redeemer School/Winston Salem, North Carolina

Carraway Center for Teaching and Learning, LLC (http://www.carrawaycenter.com/aboutus.html) located in Nashville, TN educational consultant dedicated to helping educators/parents understand how learning occurs.


We are grateful for the mentor books and schools listed above. These authors and schools counsel, guide and shape us. They are our friends.

It is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.” Helen Keller