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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Staying Curious: Susan Engel’s “The Hungry Mind”
The Hungry Mind The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood That's the title of Susan Engel's new book and it's about…
The Finns Are At It Again: Redesigning Education
Not content with sweeping the international testing stakes Finland is setting about radical school design and reform - again. And given…
The Essential Capacities
I'm not sure when PDS became a member of NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) but it was a long…
Paper Cuts: Josh at the Sewing Machine
The first day of alleged spring and another day disrupted by the rituals and routines of early dismissal. By mid…
Before Endeavors Melt
It's been a cold winter here in the Hudson Valley. Poughkeepsie records only go back to 1949 but this February…
Global Studies and Math Count
Dropped by the prek-k last week and found them deep in a pattern block exercise (well it actually felt like…