Bullying, violence, discrimination and the ethical climate of high school. Charles Blow wrote about what he termed the Private School…
Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…
I rewrote Seth Godin's blog entry for today: Organizing for joy. I hope he doesn't mind. The word "joy" made…
Prior to the industrialization of education, the education model was centered around a single-room school house consisting of one teacher…
100% of PDS high school students agreed with all of these statements on the HSSSE : I feel safe in…
This is the second post reporting on the results of the survey we administered at PDS last spring: The High…
A colleague from a neighboring school has sent the following link from the New York Times. It's a cautionary tale…
We need a broader vision of success. We believe that real success results from attention to the basic developmental needs…
A PATH TO COLLEGE, CAREER AND CIVIC SUCCESS Talents, when revealed, need to be celebrated. Challenges, when discovered, need to…
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…