Education

The School of Now, the Future of Work: Learning by Doing

The strategic planning process to date has primarily been one of listening and paying attention. When we look at the…

11 years ago

Connecting the Dots: Innovation in the Knowledge Age

Connecting the Dots: Becoming a Knowledge Age Innovator Interesting 2009 short article by Deborah Westphal of Toffler Associates Key points…

11 years ago

Confronting Stereotypes

“Messy, raucous, democratic India is growing fast, and now may partner up with the world's richest democracy—America.” - Fareed Zakaria…

11 years ago

“We are not teaching our children … what they need to know.”

The world is moving at a tremendous rate; no one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the…

11 years ago

An Age of Marvels

If there’s any doubt that we are living in an age of marvels just read these accounts of what happened…

11 years ago

Why School? Why PDS?

We are at the beginning of a period of focused strategic thinking at school and the Board of Trustees has…

12 years ago

Beneath the Surface: The Hokey-Pokey and Jump Jim Joe

Most Wednesday mornings the lower school assembles in the Chapman Room and parents are welcome.  It’s usually a showcase for…

12 years ago

Child Education Magazine – a window on the past

On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…

12 years ago

Change hits Welcome Back to School

This cartoon is making the rounds this morning:  Reminds me of those words often claimed to be either a Chinese…

12 years ago

The One Cool Thing

I had the privilege last week of working with a great bunch of educators at the NYSAIS Think Tank at…

12 years ago