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Hybrid Professional Development
A post from D’Arcy resonated with an effort I am thinking of starting next year to promote the sharing of classroom technology activities among teachers from different grade levels. D’Arcy links to the...
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Reflections on Building Learning Communities 2008
I made a full week of the Building Learning Communities conference this year. I started with EduBloggerCon East, an informal gathering of local educators and technologists to discuss tech issues on...
View ArticleAll Kinds Of Minds in action
You may know the whole-brain teaching philosophy called All Kinds of Minds. A majority of our teachers attend professional development days to learn this brain-based approach to teaching students, one...
View ArticleExperience and Education
We read Dewey’s Experience and Education first in our graduate program. I recently had two experiences that reminded me of the necessity to make authentic student experience central in the design of a...
View ArticleExtending the learning community
Publication of student work on the website extends the learning community beyond the classroom to the entire school community. Key to this effort is a school website that includes a community...
View ArticleUndergrads and IT
My principal challenge in schools is to encourage thoughtful, useful adoption of technology to strategically support teaching and learning. Along the way, I encounter varying attitudes regarding...
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School Change Through Experiential Programs
Independent schools have increasingly created specialized positions to lead or facilitate new, experiential learning opportunities for their students. Do you have these positions at your school?...
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Botswana Trip Curricular Goals
Source: cordelia_persen on Flickr We leave for Botswana in two weeks. What curricular goals have we realized so far, and what remains to accomplish? Collaborations with discipline-based classes We (the...
View ArticleSo Long, Learning Profiles?
NPR reports this morning: Think You’re An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely Psychologist Dan Willingham at the University of Virginia, who studies how our brains learn, says...
View ArticleCo-curricular Innovation Council
We have launched a “Co-curricular Innovation Council” so that co-curricular program leaders can more easily consult with each other, work together on common projects, and build stronger partnerships...
View ArticleBeyond Measure Film Explores Next Generation Learning
Originally published on University Prep On February 18, University Prep hosted a public screening of the film “Beyond Measure,” which was attended by about 80 U Prep families and members of the public....
View ArticleThree Kinds of Engagement
A wonderful, new synthesis of research identifies a main reason why students do not thrive in school and provides clear directions for improvement. The study, titled “Supporting Social, Emotional, and...
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