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Failure in Learning: Personal S-curves

October 15, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Play of the Mind

September 24, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Active Learning

September 6, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. e. e. cummings

August 30, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

“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 […]

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A week in…

August 30, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

…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 […]

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Reading

August 30, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment
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Hello world!

August 19, 2012by joanoneill7 Leave a comment

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 […]

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