Multi-faceted Refractions

This morning, Scott McLeod tweeted about Seth Godin's blog post, The coming melt-down in higher education (as seen by a marketer). As the parent of one student who will soon be leaving high school and trying to determine the next step and a student just about to enter high school, I found this post provocative, [...]

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The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 21st Century Curriculum and Technology Task Force released  a document, Online Learning: A Continuum of Opportunity, Critical Questions for Leaders (http://4dmo.com/blogs/nais/).  The committee began to create the scaffolding and framework for its constituents, Independent Schools, to guide them through determining their position on Online Learning. This document will [...]

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For the past 27 years, we are fortunate to invite a rising artist at our Morning Ex, and all school assembly that is held every Monday and Wednesday. The name derives from Morning Exercise and used to meet every day, where there were calisthenics and other chances for our founding headmaster, Perry Dunlap Smith, to teach and [...]

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On Saturday, March 6th, I had pleasure of attending TEDxNYEd, an independently organized and run TED conference. The organizers and team decided to run an event with an educational focus. During the course of the day, 14 live speakers and thinkers challenged the participants to rethink our assumptions and imagine new ways to think about [...]

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I hope that you had a chance to wander over to the Middle School yesterday. If not, I think it would be worth a 10-15 minute walk through to interact with the Middle School students who are participating in the Middle School theme week on sustainability. Reflecting on this last night, this unit designed by [...]

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