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How to grow your brain
Carol Dweck researches “growth mindset” — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve…
The Christmas Truce: “A Day of Perfect Peace”
This well outfitted German trench has a lighted Christmas tree and soldiers celebrating with music and sausages! It's true -…
Winter Festival 2014 and 1941
Here's the Flickr album of photos from WinterFest 14 - last day of school before winter break. And a gallery of…
Educating Global Citizens
We must foster global citizenship. Education is about more than literacy and numeracy. It is also about citizenry. Education must fully assume its essential role in…
Digging Deeper with The Five Whys
I first tried "The Five Whys" in a faculty meeting. It was an attempt to try something new in tackling…
Outcomes and the Bloody Red Shrimp
Strategic plan outcomes can all seem rather formal and abstract until something like this leaps out and grabs your attention.…
Some of the Fun of the (Maker)Faire
I've been thinking a lot about the MakerFaire and the connections with the "learning by doing" legacy of our school.…
Look who came to MakerFaire 2014
It's not every day that you get to paint with an internationally renowned artist. But that was just one of…