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Chennai, INDIA

What happens when you combine music, motion, emotion and fun into the learning process? Watch 3 1/2 year old Palak’s hands, eyes and smile as she is tested after seven weeks of RICH Learning.

This is Varshini teaching her friend how to spell after four weeks (Ant, Bee, Cat, Dog) with the RICH Learning Methods. In “The Quality School” Bill Glasser’s philosophy is: “In the Quality School, everyone is the teacher.” The faster you ask kids to teach something, they more attention and retention they will have + a love of the material.

Shashemene, ETHIOPIA

What happens when you add music to motion to emotion to learning in Ethiopia? A won-won-wonderful, fun-fun-funderful, thun-thun-thunderful experience for all the kids.

In the RICH Learning Method, we learn in six week units, and the seventh week we rehearse and put on a show. How will that work in the RICH Metaverse? Kids will get points as they sing and dance in practice each lesson, but on the seventh lesson they’ll double their points if the put on a show for their parents, grandparents and friends.

STILLWATER, MN

RICH Learning Theory was born on a one-year sabbatical and a seven-week preschool incubator with 10 children in a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Dr. Rich took the year to study brain-scans of children engaged in music, dance, art and theater. He interviewed neurologists and experts from Harvard (ADD/ADHD), Tufts (Dyslexia) and the Neurosciences Institute (Music and the Brain) to build the origional framework for a scientifically sound method of teaching with the arts at the core. He hosted three retreats in Aspen, Puerto Rico and German Lake, MN, to create the scope and sequence of the curriculum to be tested as an optimal early learning environment. He then hired 38 musicians to write the first 300 of 500 songs embedding what was to be taught (Spelling, Math, Science, Health, Virtue, Art). As the methods, models and materials evolved, he then invested a summer singing, dancing, laughing, learning and rolling on the floor with 10 preschoolers. They had a blast in this initial pilot and learned a lot about embedding education in music, dance, art and theater. (And Dr. Rich lost 15 lbs.!) Below is a short documentary on what was learned over the summer and how parents and grandparents reacted.