Baxter Academy for Science and Technology: A Glimpse at a Democratic School in Portland Maine

Our student guides, faculty dean and Juan Boat builders Surfers Engineers Shoe designers Scientists What is common amongst this group of adults? They all love teaching and learning at Baxter Academy in Portland,  Maine.  I just spent a day with my colleague...

Educator as Facilitator of Transformation: Deeper Learning Redux

We gathered in the fall of 2022 to think about some of the ideas from a small but hopefully growing consortium called Deeper Learning. Perhaps,  it’s a flawed name (deeper than what? shallow learning? who wants that!), but for the sake of movement building, we...