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Some days are like that …

Some days are like that - busy. Last Friday for example which - in addition to all the usual activity…

10 years ago

Look who came to MakerFaire 2014

It's not every day that you get to paint with an internationally renowned artist. But that was just one of…

10 years ago

Season’s Greetings

Behind the scenes at the museum. This is magical. Watch it.

11 years ago

A Modern Village School: Christmas 1944

Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From…

13 years ago

Everyone is cranky

A school in May is like a two year old deprived of a nap.  That's how my colleague Liz describes…

14 years ago

The Extra Mile

The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…

15 years ago

Music and Arts lag. Can poetry be far behind?

This week in the NYTimes – news of a rather discouraging report about music and arts education across the US.…

15 years ago

The Lower School chooses Joan Miro

If you're going to MoMA for the Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night - good luck. It's a…

16 years ago

Human capital, stars aligned and the wise owls

On the way home tonight I heard Robert Reich on NPR’s Marketplace. The topic was Human Capital. The one sentence…

16 years ago

Iconic Images

Student art work: Iconic images from Kenyon House. Click the pic for a bigger view.

16 years ago

Kids Know Things

Solar panels, wind turbines, solid waste fuel, electronic generators and all manner of imaginative and greener ways to power cars,…

16 years ago

How To Be Creative: Look Sideways

Some attributes of creativity: Challenge assumptions Be receptive to new ideas Recognize similarities or differences Make unlikely connections Take risks…

16 years ago

Multiple Perspectives

Still Life with Fruit Basket - Paul Cezanne Think globally with awareness and understanding of complexity and multiple perspectives Predators…

16 years ago

Color

Seeing red, going green, in a purple haze , once in a blue moon. Pictures from the first and second…

16 years ago

The pH rises … Science Symposium 08

The pH rises and the bubbles stream out; pop, From the misty stream. The water running and the fish swimming…

16 years ago