Lorrie Jackson recently interviewed me via email on the topic of heads of school and their use of social media.…
The NYSAIS heads conference is always valuable and 2010 was no exception. I usually hear NAIS president Pat Bassett in…
Bullying, violence, discrimination and the ethical climate of high school. Charles Blow wrote about what he termed the Private School…
Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…
Prior to the industrialization of education, the education model was centered around a single-room school house consisting of one teacher…
This is the second post reporting on the results of the survey we administered at PDS last spring: The High…
We asked....They told. The High School Survey of Student Engagement (known as the Hessie) is a highly regarded survey measuring…
A colleague from a neighboring school has sent the following link from the New York Times. It's a cautionary tale…
A PATH TO COLLEGE, CAREER AND CIVIC SUCCESS Talents, when revealed, need to be celebrated. Challenges, when discovered, need to…
Some days just stand out. And this was one of them. First there was breakfast in the new dining room…
The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the Paris salons of Modernism - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…
First day of the new food service and a great lesson from the lower school lunch line. "I don't eat…
Ever wonder what happens in an all-school assembly when all students and faculty pre-k through 12th grade gather in the…
...what children want to learn to do." Take a look at this from Sugata Mitra. There are some really important lessons…
The PDS faculty took The Marshmallow Challenge this morning. Using 20 pieces of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard…