2013

A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.

BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…

10 years ago

Season’s Greetings

Behind the scenes at the museum. This is magical. Watch it.

10 years ago

Design Thinking: See the Moose Through the Mist

How many designers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Does it have to be a light bulb?…

10 years ago

A School With Designs on the Future

What can you tell about a school in one visit when the kids are still on vacation? Well - quite…

10 years ago

Let the handwringing stop. The US is not number one and that’s OK.

The latest Program for International Assessment (Pisa) results are out and that means another round of handwringing, lamentation, self-flagellation, finger…

10 years ago

Nine Commitments and One New Tool

I've recently discovered Haiku Deck - a new way to create slide presentations. It's an interesting tool for finding images…

10 years ago

Necessary Heroes

"The necessary supply of heroes must be maintained at all costs." (Siegfried Sassoon 24 February. 1917, quoting Sir Edward Carson…

10 years ago

Insult and Injury

by Charley-Chartwell. Always useful to have some Shakespearean insults on hand. From - Visually.

11 years ago

Toot your Trumpet: the NAIS Inspiration Lab

So easy to toot your own horn these days. The harder thing is to cut through the cacophony and have others…

11 years ago

Notes toward a definition of leadership

Yesterday PDS faculty received an email from a colleague outlining a plan for the use, care and maintenance of one…

11 years ago

It’s a MakeSTEAM world: Design Thinking on the Move

I'm just back from a fantastic three days at the NYSAIS STEAMCamp. Twitter: #steam13 So much to think about, so…

11 years ago

Lock-step learning is not (learning)

Award winning social studies teacher Ron Maggiano is leaving his job. And this is why: Our classrooms have become intellectual…

11 years ago

Bouncing Back and the Seven C’s

Here's a book that looks useful: Building Resilience in Children and Teens Strategies to help kids from 18 months to…

11 years ago

Play again

I love these quotations from the National Institute for Play home page. "You can discover more about a person in an…

11 years ago