This article is the third in a series of educator commentaries on the independent school accreditation process. The first article was Sanje Ratnavale’s “Will Accreditation Survive COVID-19 and Racism?” The
As Abraham Lincoln made abundantly clear: we not only need to think anew but, equally important, we need to act anew. There has been plenty of “thinking” about new directions
For my first 19 years as a teacher I was a committed lecturer and probably spent 60% of my class time doing whole group “teaching.” I honed my craft. I
OESIS Network President Sanje Ratnavale is delighted to announce that Deborah Farmer Kris has agreed to join our prestigious team of national thought leaders as senior parenting columnist for Intrepid
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One morning last spring, my youngest child announced that he was going to ride a bike without training wheels. He hopped on with confidence, but after about 10 minutes of
We have spent much of the last year listening to reports that online learning is failing students. The story goes something like this: Covid put an end to in-person education,
Words matter. At the risk of stating the obvious, the source of the words also matters. While I am appalled at the anti-Asian behavior of what I hope is an
New rule: Whenever we talk about learning, we should distinguish between learning in the real world and learning IN SCHOOL. For example, the work of John Hattie is cited daily
In the previous segments of this series, we framed the challenges for a systemic approach to DEI considering the visible & invisible parts of this work. The goal is a
As a teenager growing up in a small-town in the foothills of Northern California, I remember being shocked watching the beating of Rodney King. I was even more astonished when