Paul Orfalea

Joining Twitter to share some of my favorite sayings and quotations. Here's one: People rise to the level of trust you give them.

Nutritious, scratch-cooked school food is the new normal. twitter.com/Orfalea/status…

Regrets? I wish I'd said "thank you" more.

"No person is born great; great people become great when others are sleeping." - African Proverb

People rise to the level of trust - and opportunity - you give them. noozhawk.com/noozhawk/artic…

In the quantities our kids consume it, sugar is poison. youtu.be/mYZD6EeZ5RQ

Early Childhood Education is the key to #WholeChild #WholeAdult #WholeCommunity youtu.be/jhQUd1lRoC0

The whole child comes to school; not just the parts that take tests. #WholeChild keyt.com/news/school-lu…

Let us attend to the needs of the #WholeChild at school. keyt.com/news/school-lu…

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company." - Charles Evans Hughes

"Success will take you where character cannot sustain you."

A child separated from nature will never understand his or her own nature. orfaleafoundation.org/what-we-learne…

Boomers went to public schools that taught art, music, swimming, drivers ed, wood shop, metal shop, and home economics. And now? #WholeChild

From Dean Z: "At Kinko's we had T-shirts for everything, but before there were t-shirts, there was knowledge." #CelebrateLearning

A child's body is not merely a conveyance for his or her brain. Swim! Ride a bike! Run! Play! #WholeChild #BodiesGoToSchoolToo

Santa Barbara is an island, tenuously connected to the rest of CA by fragile highways. Be ready. awareprepare.org

Dozens of Adams Elementary Schoolers Gain Water Safety Skills Through Santa Barbara Family YMCA noozhawk.com/article/dozens…

We learned from our mistakes in school food reform. You can learn from our mistakes too. orfaleafoundation.org/food-on-the-pl… …

Before they know how to calculate the area of a circle, kids should know how to swim and how to ride a bicycle. #WholeChild

A mudslide 117 miles away gridlocked traffic through Santa Barbara. How prepared are we for El Nino?

Churchill: “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”