2007
Grandparents and Special Friends
Some came from New York City and much further - including Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Denmark. Other came from…
Heard on the Hustings
"You don't make a hog fatter by weighing it." Everyone went to school and that makes everyone an expert on…
Wintry mix
There's a good article in the local paper on the inexact science of school weather closing. Our recent spell of…
Thanksgiving Time
When the night winds whistle through the trees and blow the crisp brown leaves a-crackling down, When the autumn moon…
Stone Soup and a New Partnership
Becoming a global citizen has to begin close to home. For students it begins with how they treat each other…
Accident or design
There's a great new exhibit of student work on the walls. It emphasizes the role of accident in design. It…
Any Relevance for Education?
"We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our…
Take Another Picture
Year two of the lower school Take One Picture project* and the picture is (drumroll please): Fantasy Castle with Men…
Get out of my Face(book)
Here's an interesting (but not surprising) twist on the ubiquitous social networking and web 2.0. Students in the UK are…
Becoming Citizens of the World
NAIS is working on a PGP (Principles of Good Practice) for Global Citizenship. Here is a draft. They are seeking…
It’s the Teachers …
"It's the teachers...." I refrain from adding the usual last word to that phrase because it seems unnecessarily rude but,…
Community
Halloween and time for some fun. It's one thing to talk about the importance of school community and quite another…
Stop Praising Students
There's a good article in the latest Educational Leadership: "The Perils and Promise of Praise". It's by Carol Dweck. The…
College Information Evening
We had a well-attended college information evening for ninth and tenth grade families last week. Ninth and tenth grade is…
Kids in School
Who's zooming whom? New kids on the block received a warm welcome last week. Daisy and Clover - five months…