change

The Future of Schools: The Third Revolution and The Great Disruption

"The Great Disruption: Technology and the Future of Schools" The latest issue of Independent School magazine is out and it's…

11 years ago

The Edge: A sudden unplanned flight of fancy

         Come to the Edge We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO…

12 years ago

“We are not teaching our children … what they need to know.”

The world is moving at a tremendous rate; no one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the…

12 years ago

The IBM Selectric Typewriter and Kenyon House: “You must have been drunk!”

Cross-posted from Josie's Blog Did you know that Poughkeepsie Day School now has a Fab Lab? It's short for fabrication…

12 years ago

Why School? Why PDS?

We are at the beginning of a period of focused strategic thinking at school and the Board of Trustees has…

12 years ago

Middle School Learning Community

How we took four classrooms and a corridor and created a contemporary learning space for the middle school in the…

12 years ago

Child Education Magazine – a window on the past

On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…

12 years ago

Design for Learning and Living

Take a look at the plans for the Athletic fields and for the creation of the Middle School Learning Community…

13 years ago

What if…?

We had seven Poughkeepsie Day School attendees at #Educon 2012 in January and they brought back a wealth of ideas.…

13 years ago

All this change ….

For adults like me who work in schools September means being confronted with a world of change.  There are new…

13 years ago

Transformation

We have a new lobby in one of our buildings - the Elizabeth C. Gilkeson Center - and  as you…

13 years ago

Google-doogle-do

Taking control of our learning and our work isn’t really a revolution. It’s more like a reset to the proper…

13 years ago

How Change Happens: The Leopards Break Into The Temple

If you’ve ever been confronted by a dose of TTWWHADI (that’s the way we have always done it) or been…

13 years ago

The 21st Century Learner

This video from the MacArthur Foundation shows a variety of key and influential people discussing some of the new possibilities…

14 years ago