May 8, 2023 Growing up in rural Vermont, I have had the opportunity to be a part of many different and unique education systems ranging from Waldorf and outdoor programs
April 27, 2023 In later years some further earsWere found in other forms.The more we know just goes to showThere are no real norms. –Portion of a poem by zoologist
April 6, 2023 Conceptualized and designed in 2008 as a program that would provide opportunities for students to customize a learning experience, Berwick Academy’s Innovation Center and Innovation Pursuit® (IP) program
March 27, 2023 The other day I talked with a parent who was lamenting how much time her children spend on screens at school. They are in an excellent school—the
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
February 1, 2023 The first part of this series spoke about the traditional Visual Arts Canon as a bastion of the “old white guy club.” It tackled how to embed
December 21, 2022 If you learn quickly, you are smart. If you learn slowly you are … dumb. This is the message we send to students every day in schools
September 8, 2022 Growing up in Shanghai, I learned English at four years old. After eight years of training — from alphabet games in kindergarten to after-school tutoring in middle
May 12, 2022 I ended the previous chapter with a teaser, one that I promised in this installment to explore: Can we really have learner-centered and competency-based education in our
April 22, 2022 “How do you know when you are learning?” This is a question important to answer, especially in its more nuanced form: “When you are learning, how does