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What a night!

We had a terrific benefit auction party last night. So many thanks are due to volunteer auction chair Ann Enriquez…

10 years ago

Why are we doing this to our children?

Here is child psychologist Dr. Megan Koschnick on why Early Childhood Standards of Common Core are Developmentally Inappropriate. This is her…

10 years ago

What’s wrong with this picture?

I always enjoy Valerie Strauss's Answer Sheet blog in the Washington Post. She frequently provides a platform for teacher voices…

10 years ago

When it comes to picking a school: Choose Happy

It's a miserable life. Nasty, brutish and short. And childhood means school and that means drudgery. And the sooner kids…

10 years ago

The Future of Education

Panel on the Future of Education from the NAIS Annual Conference, Boston 2015. With college presidents Rebecca Chopp, Nan Keohane,…

10 years ago

Edcamp Hudson Valley: It’s back so Save the date

Edcamp is back at Poughkeepsie Day School this August and we are delighted to be the hosts. Edcamps are just…

10 years ago

School Leadership: Working Together and Birds in Flight

Have you ever seen a ton of starlings or red-wing blackbirds swooping about in unison as if they were in…

10 years ago

Why PDS? A Lower School Parent Writes …

If you're thinking about Loving Learning and what all that emerging, integrated and experiential curriculum looks like in the real…

10 years ago

Loving Learning: Thank You Tom Little

Tom Little’s lifelong passion for progressive education emerged directly from his experience with its antithesis. I was six years old,…

10 years ago

How well are our children?

By chance I discovered this wonderful document Growing Up in Ireland with its photographs of a lush green landscape and quick…

10 years ago