April 11, 2023 Our third year of operation at UP Academy was 2020-2021. If you are an educator you may have just gotten goosebumps thinking about that year. It was
April 10, 2023 How can the science of emotion empower us as school leaders? “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
April 5, 2023 Before Seth Godin’s famous marketing book, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, hit the market, we were first treated to the concept of the purple
March 17, 2023 This article was originally posted on the Miss Porter’s School website. Have you ever read a novel in which the historical context was of no importance? Do
March 15, 2023 Of all the claims that schools make, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the assertion that “our students learn to take risks.” Risk-taking is meant to suggest that
March 9, 2023 When I first launched my school we wanted to create programs that were accessible to more students than just our own. The reasoning for this was multi-faceted.
March 8, 2023 When I was in college, I had a colleague who was several years older, widely read, and was ready to provide an authoritative answer to any question
February 22, 2023 The world couldn’t be more different in early 2023 than anyone could have planned for. As such, many of the “strategic plans” hatched in 2018 or 2019
February 16, 2023 Expectations of teachers grow. Expectations of schools grow. How we learn, and how we deliver what we want to teach have evolved in the past couple of
February 9, 2023 (This article is republished from ET Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2) The mention of technology and the classroom evokes pandemic-era remote learning, disengaged human interaction and unequal