choice

Learning and Social Media: Option, Opportunity and Obligation

If you're reading this online then you are engaged in social media. You are consuming. I've been thinking about education…

9 years ago

When it comes to picking a school: Choose Happy

It's a miserable life. Nasty, brutish and short. And childhood means school and that means drudgery. And the sooner kids…

10 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

A Children’s Manifesto for Creativity

Question: What do you need to be creative and succeed in the future? Point number one: We want less formality…

16 years ago

Give Joy a Chance: An 11-Step Program

It's the 21st century. So what happens when we shut children down and disconnect them from wonder, creativity, curiosity and…

16 years ago

Off and Running

We added Cross Country to the athletic choices this fall and the team is off and running and doing very…

17 years ago

Voice activated pencils: “The school we’d like”

A school in a giant submarine with waterproof maps of the underwater  world. Private helicopters to fly children to France…

17 years ago

School Choice: Hogwarts or Diffendoofer?

The best parts about the Harry Potter books are all the reminders of the traditional British school story and a…

17 years ago

Plus ça change, c’est la même chose – only faster

The one thing about which all educators are in agreement is that yesterday's education no longer suffices for today. The…

18 years ago

Choice

Would you rather have supper in a castle, breakfast in a balloon, or tea on the river? John Burningham We…

18 years ago