RattleBag and Rhubarb

Play again

I love these quotations from the National Institute for Play home page. "You can discover more about a person in an…

12 years ago

The Perils of EdSpeak: Play in Danger

As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play.  My chief concern…

12 years ago

Darkness and Light

What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…

12 years ago

Alfie Kohn is coming to Poughkeepsie Day School

Alfie Kohn is coming on April 25th. Just look at the great header Christina Powers created to herald the news:…

12 years ago

The Perils of Education

What is more discouraging in history than the way in which, again and again, the human spirit is freed from…

12 years ago

Elephants are People Too

We know that empathy - that ability to walk around in another's shoes - matters. We know that developing empathy…

12 years ago

The School of Now, the Future of Work: Learning by Doing

The strategic planning process to date has primarily been one of listening and paying attention. When we look at the…

12 years ago

Connecting the Dots: Innovation in the Knowledge Age

Connecting the Dots: Becoming a Knowledge Age Innovator Interesting 2009 short article by Deborah Westphal of Toffler Associates Key points…

12 years ago

Confronting Stereotypes

“Messy, raucous, democratic India is growing fast, and now may partner up with the world's richest democracy—America.” - Fareed Zakaria…

12 years ago

“We are not teaching our children … what they need to know.”

The world is moving at a tremendous rate; no one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the…

12 years ago