Emerging Latine Leaders
Exciting news! Today, we awarded three members of the Perrone Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership Carmen M. Torres Scholarship for Emerging Latine Leaders. Congratulations to Melissa Alvarez, from Revere, and Nancy Uribe, and Christine Brito from Somerville. Their...
Learning about Leadership and Schools in Spain
I first met Nieves Segovia in my HGSE class: Schools in Action. Her comments and questions about the schools we visited were always insightful. After one visit, I asked, “How is that you notice so much in every school we visit?” “I’ve spent a lot of time in...
Passion, Practice, Time and Expert Knowledge
View of my lodging from the school I’ve just returned from a two week immersive pottery course in the Tuscan hills of Italy. I’m still overwhelmed by the beauty of the natural surroundings– waking up every morning to the mist dangling over the olive groves and then...
Spotlight on Siamack Zahedi – One Study at a Time: Research in the Indian Context
Recently, I caught up with Siamack Zahedi, one of our chapter authors for our upcoming book, Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments: A Global Perspective. I wanted to better understand how Sia (as he is often called) came to be so passionate...
Democratic Schools in Action
A few weeks ago, I proudly stood in the midst of my HGSE classroom, vastly expanded without the dividing expandable wall, and watched my graduate students from my Building Democratic Schools course preparing for their final exhibitions. Twelve weeks ago I had assured...
Everyone has a story; you just need to tell it: Chelsea Opportunity Academy
Adam Aronson Chelsea Opportunity Academy (COA) sits in a far wing of Chelsea High School in Chelsea MA. I have been visiting this high school since the mid-80s in its various iterations and changes. I always leave energized by the students and faculty I meet. Adam, a...
Lydia Cochrane: Home of the Catamounts
It’s a straight shot from Boston to St. Johnsbury School, also known as home of the Catamounts, a large wild cat or panther. I have known Lydia Cochrane, co-principal here, for a decade. She was part of my inaugural cohort of Perrone Sizer Institute for...
Manami Okuda Wada: Explorer and Learner
Manami has spent the last year studying deeper learning at HGSE. Before HGSE, she worked with middle/high school students as an after-school program manager, where students were compared by test scores too many times. As a result, they lacked intrinsic motivation to...
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...