Come to the Edge We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO…
What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…
We know that empathy - that ability to walk around in another's shoes - matters. We know that developing empathy…
In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…
Cross posted from Josie's Blog It was the spider started it. A noiseless, patient, useful spider had spun a tremendous…
T.S.Eliot worked for Faber and now they have published an app for The Wasteland. Is this the future of English…
Children: How will they ever know who they are? The question is the last line of "The Things we Steal…
Wisdom and inspiration from Emily Dickinson: The gleam of an heroic Act Such strange illumination The Possible's slow fuse is…
On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…
We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, so terrifying, and…
Every year at the annual Eagle Society poetry reading a lower school student demonstrates that s/he has spent homework time…
This week in the NYTimes – news of a rather discouraging report about music and arts education across the US.…
What's the difference between a metaphor and lying? With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it's…
PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…
Suddenly there’s Poughkeepsie what a hard time the Hudson River has had trying to get to the sea it seemed…