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The Rowland Foundation and its Fellows are very much interested in the kind of dialog you mention. An initials step are the workshops that we are offering during the current school year (found on ...
Here's another great resource from an organization that is really questioning our national obsession with testing. http://fairtest.org/k-12/authentic%20assessment
Adam...how about providing the lessons on DVDs for those that might not have computers in their homes. Or, thumbdrives for those with poor internet access.Or, QR codes for those students with more ...
Great article. I'm wondering how often teacher-coaches are used in schools. This seems like such an effective professional development tool (if done well). Anyone know of coaches working in scho...
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Hey Karen! Along these same lines I often think that schools should take advantage of the Vermont Senior Survey Part I: Planned Activities After High School that VSAC puts out.To me I wish that w...
Susan, A few years ago Moosalamoo Center at Otter Valley started the process of moving towards narrative report cards. At this same time we were moving to a more heterogeneously mixed group of stud...
I don't know of any; I would also like to see it in action.
Underscores the inverse relationship between a country's natural resources and its human ones. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html
"SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious...
Thank you!
Short (less than 4 min) talk by actor Henry Rollins about the importance of education to maintain and reinvigorate American democracy. http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/henry_rollins_pitches_educa...
http://www.aasaconnect.com/All-Success-Stories?id=28
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012201260311
The NY Times had a fantastic article on character education. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp I especially like the d...
http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ Interesting speech on the developmental importance of solitude.
Free resources for teachers, educational ideas and tips, educational topics, personal learning networks, project based learning, Google, Evernote, Discovery Education and more: http://educationalte...
For me, I believe that transformation needs to be much Less focused on programs and More focused on processes. What are the Processes that are in place to ensure student voice, rigor, relevance, ot...
VTGIN planning for the 2013 conference is in the works. They are sending out letters in August to principals about identifying teachers and students who would be good presenters at the 2013 confer...
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