Education

Lock-step learning is not (learning)

Award winning social studies teacher Ron Maggiano is leaving his job. And this is why: Our classrooms have become intellectual…

12 years ago

The Edge: A sudden unplanned flight of fancy

         Come to the Edge We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO…

12 years ago

Bouncing Back and the Seven C’s

Here's a book that looks useful: Building Resilience in Children and Teens Strategies to help kids from 18 months to…

12 years ago

Getting to Somewhere: The Changes They Made

Did you see the film Race to Nowhere? The film challenged the obsession with competition and evaluation in our education…

12 years ago

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

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