Education
Learning by Doing: Think*Make*Improve
I've been playing with a new graphics tool - easel.ly - and this is my first effort. I took the slogan Think*Make*Improve…
Born to Explore: Nine things we need to know about the brain
In his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolino applies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom. And here are his head (!) lines excerpted…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Play again
I love these quotations from the National Institute for Play home page. "You can discover more about a person in an…
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…
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…
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:…