Failure in Learning: Personal S-curves
Failure is a habit we should be cultivating in schools. Unless we as teachers and administrators occasionally risk failure and unless we encourage our students to pursue crazy ideas now […]
Play of the Mind
The best learning, perhaps that is the only learning that sticks, is play. Play adds an element of the unexpected, a heightened attention, and willingness to take a risk. Play […]
Active Learning
I have been thinking a lot lately about how to engage high school students’ attention, and the connection between active learning and physical activity. This is because, as Rick Hanson […]
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. e. e. cummings
“Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who should be continually reborn, a human being; somebody who […]
A week in…
…school and I am still busy with the fretwork of calendars and class schedules and launching new learning teams. “So much depends / upon / a red notebook / glazed […]
Reading
Hello world!
Teachers and students arrived at SHC last week eager to begin the 2012-13 school year, especially the incoming frosh. Surrounded by so many inventive and caring colleagues, and in the […]
