2009

Snow! “Now don’t eat it, Scout, you’re wasting it”

With the chance of a snow day looming and with the news of snow across much of Alabama my mind…

16 years ago

Like a good debate?

Interested in education? Like a good debate? Then Bridging Differences is for you. It's an ongoing debate between two of…

16 years ago

10 Tips for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience

Can design help children learn? That's the cover story of in the February Metropolis Magazine lent to me last week…

16 years ago

What matters most? Tough choices for tough times

At a recent conference a speaker suggested that choosing a school was akin to choosing a cell phone* - as…

16 years ago

Academic Earth

A wave of the future: College lectures available online for free. Academic Earth: Free access to thousands of world class…

16 years ago

Electricity Trade Show

The American Flashlight, Game Boards, Quiz Shows, a Climbing Tree, Cop Car, Electric Robot and more. All at the Electricity…

16 years ago

World Markets

Here are just a few pictures from the display of dioramas of markets from around the world. I will add…

16 years ago

Do you Twitter?

We are experimenting with an additional way to help people keep in touch with what's going on at PDS. If…

16 years ago

What is school for?

Seth Godin is a marketeer and prolific generator of ideas.  His blog often has interesting  nuggets about education. The purpose…

16 years ago

Kids need recess

School recess improves behavior - from the NYTimes. Anyone surprised?

16 years ago

New semester in motion

It's day one of the second semester in the high school. That means the  start of new high school courses. …

16 years ago

Saving the Children from Science

There's another of those scary science stories in today's NYTimes: Split Outcome in Texas Battle in Teaching Evolution. The real…

16 years ago

The frozen Hudson River

Last year I bought some of those ice grippers you can velcro onto your boots. This year I put them…

16 years ago

New Furniture

As if on cue, the moving truck with the new furniture or Kenyon House arrived  right as the Peacemakers Assembly…

16 years ago

“Stony the road we trod” The inauguration of President Barak Obama

PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday.  Entitled "Stony the road we trod" the event began with…

16 years ago