April 26, 2023, and July 11, 2024 I feel like I need to preface this post with a disclaimer (which I encourage students — especially girls — never to do).
October 26, 2023 Bullying in schools can put tremendous pressure on students to conform. Social conformity has been described as “…a type of social influence involving a change in belief
October 24, 2023 Newsflash: Getting into college shouldn’t be any child’s central goal. Or so says Ana Homayoun in her new book, Erasing the Finish Line. I emphatically agree with
September 5, 2023 Publication is scheduled for early October 2023. For updates on the publication of this book, click here. This is the first of two excerpts from Stephen’s new
August 15, 2023 Here is Alice, lost in Wonderland and seeking direction from the Cheshire Cat: “Would you tell me, please, which way to go from here?” “That depends a
Summer Series 4: Volumes have been written about the PBL approach to student learning over the past 25 years. What you will read here is not more of the same,
Summer Series 3: In the spirit of meaning-making, let’s revise the meaning of failure. June 29, 2023 It’s trendy in educational circles to talk about “embracing the learning experience of
June 28, 2023 In Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, 11-year-old Margaret learns a chant and exercise from her friend Nancy, the queen bee of 6th grade,
May 10, 2023 This may be an unpopular opinion, but the pandemic year was awesome for our school. We had families who were grateful for school and for our teachers.
May 9, 2023 “If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate