Many of you have followed along on my trip around the country, and it would not have been as well articulated without the weekly video catch-ups with Bo Adams of Unboundary along the way. We did the final episode last Friday, unfortunately just as the news from Newton was coming out. But after a moment [...]
Mark Crotty is Head at St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas, another great school that I just did not have time to visit on my recently concluded national tour. He has been kind enough to follow via my blog, and over Thanksgiving posted on his own blog some of the questions that my reporting raised. [...]
As I mentioned last week. Presbyterian Day School in Memphis is doing some really interesting work with embedded technology, starting at early grade levels. They started to share it all with me in person and I got out of my depth in a hurry. Then I tried to capture and embed all of the rich [...]
The journey has been long, and I might have run out of steam before visiting the 64th and last school on this remarkable trip. But my hosts made sure that was not the case. A day at Greenhill School in Dallas was the perfect final chapter, a visit packed with that combination of exciting programs [...]
Some schools with long histories find it hard to change due to a legacy of success and the inevitably of inertia. Some schools with short histories find it easy to change but hard to build a legacy of success. Then there are the “tweeners”, small schools with a long history that make a sudden growth [...]
As a testament to the passion with which so many educators embrace the need to fundamentally change how we teach, the 60th (or thereabouts) visit of my trip was just as rich and engaging as the first, with new approaches and models that we all can share. I had not planned to visit The Hockaday [...]
I have not visited as many public schools on this trip as I would have liked, but each one has something to offer all of us, public or private. Today’s visit at Townview Center Magnet in Dallas was no exception. Innovation means different things to different organizations, but for all schools it should mean changing [...]
Thanks to Bo Adams from design thinking group Unboundary for continuing to follow and help me on my journey. Here is the video we shot today; you can see the full post, including Bo's thoughtful selection of comments regarding the search for elegance we want for our students from The Falconer on his blog, It's [...]
I spent most of my third day at Presbyterian Day School in the early childhood wing, with a reading group that could be a model for any grade level and the technology group. I also revisited the Learning Studio, the heart of what appears to be a revolutionary method of differentiated learning. Here are some [...]
St. Agnes Academy and St. Dominic School is the oldest continuously operating school in Memphis, according to 19-year President Barbara Daush. They have 915 students; boys are preK-8 and girls preK-12. When I arrived at the stunning new Veritas Research Center building, a group of girls were headed off for a morning of service at [...]