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Personal Update. And Breaking News

My Wittgenstein project has entered a fallow phase but it is merely on furlough for a while and will be…

1 year ago

The School Mission: Wayward Academy or St. Etheldreda’s?

Because I wrote a piece about starting a school I began thinking about school missions. Mostly about how alike they…

4 years ago

Those School Brochures: How to stand out from the crowd

If you're in the market for an independent school - or a college for that matter - you will have…

8 years ago

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

A Work in Progress: The Secret Sauce of the PDS Value Proposition

We have a new website in the offing and I was working on some of the language for the new…

9 years ago

Educating Global Citizens

We must foster global citizenship. Education is about more than literacy and numeracy. It is also about citizenry. Education must fully assume its essential role in…

10 years ago

Outcomes and the Bloody Red Shrimp

Strategic plan outcomes can all seem rather formal and abstract until something like this leaps out and grabs your attention.…

10 years ago

Nine Commitments and One New Tool

I've recently discovered Haiku Deck - a new way to create slide presentations. It's an interesting tool for finding images…

11 years ago

Notes toward a definition of leadership

Yesterday PDS faculty received an email from a colleague outlining a plan for the use, care and maintenance of one…

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

Connecting the Dots: Innovation in the Knowledge Age

Connecting the Dots: Becoming a Knowledge Age Innovator Interesting 2009 short article by Deborah Westphal of Toffler Associates Key points…

12 years ago

Four Reasons Why Poughkeepsie Day School is Not the Real World

Poughkeepsie Day School – it’s just not the real world. Of course it’s not.  And – thank goodness for that.…

12 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

No Rhyme or Reason

Seth Godin started it and invited participation so here it is: Unreasonable It's unreasonable to get out of bed on…

14 years ago

Diversity Matters

Rather like how I'm quoted in Saturday's  Poughkeepsie Journal "Diversity is a core value embodied in the school's mission," said…

14 years ago