BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…
What is more discouraging in history than the way in which, again and again, the human spirit is freed from…
Cross-posted from Josie's Blog Did you know that Poughkeepsie Day School now has a Fab Lab? It's short for fabrication…
Most Wednesday mornings the lower school assembles in the Chapman Room and parents are welcome. It’s usually a showcase for…
"So the children of a democracy learn to take their place in the world of tomorrow." The British Council has…
Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From…
Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…
Part two of: The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender: Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction…
If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then I have given up on that ideal. After all…
The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…
With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…
On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…
From the Poughkeepsie New Yorker (Over 78,000 Read-Round-the-Clock 35 Cents Weekly) December 1941 came this news item about Poughkeepsie Day…
This summer I visited the quite wonderful Hancock Shaker Village. It's where in craft and design, form meets function with…