I don't know what started it but I found myself launching into manifesto mode! And this is what it led…
A simple Sunday night tweet from a PDS English teacher is enough to fire up the engine on the magic…
The high school Enviro Club reports that the new recycling facility has been rolled out and is ready to use…
I've been pondering Seth Godin's recent column What if you stopped? and applying it to PDS. What if Poughkeepsie Day School went…
Science teacher Jonathan Heiles sent a link to all of us about the international public campaign to name the surface…
Panel on the Future of Education from the NAIS Annual Conference, Boston 2015. With college presidents Rebecca Chopp, Nan Keohane,…
Have you ever seen a ton of starlings or red-wing blackbirds swooping about in unison as if they were in…
Tom Little’s lifelong passion for progressive education emerged directly from his experience with its antithesis. I was six years old,…
The Hungry Mind The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood That's the title of Susan Engel's new book and it's about…
Not content with sweeping the international testing stakes Finland is setting about radical school design and reform - again. And given…
I'm not sure when PDS became a member of NAIS (National Association of Independent Schools) but it was a long…
The first day of alleged spring and another day disrupted by the rituals and routines of early dismissal. By mid…
It's been a cold winter here in the Hudson Valley. Poughkeepsie records only go back to 1949 but this February…
Dropped by the prek-k last week and found them deep in a pattern block exercise (well it actually felt like…