by lindanathan | Apr 7, 2023 | Creativity, Equity, Interdisciplinary Learning, Leadership Development, Praise, School Visits, Teaching and Learning
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...
by lindanathan | Apr 4, 2023 | Arts Education, Creativity, Equity, Interdisciplinary Learning, Leadership Development, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
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...
by lindanathan | Mar 31, 2023 | Books, Equity, Family/School Involvement, International, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
I had the chance to catch up with Franco over Zoom. Even through the two dimensional nature of the camera, his enthusiasm for his work is infectious. Still the realities of his country are difficult. He tells me that politically Peru has entered into a terrible...
by lindanathan | Mar 16, 2023 | Arts Education, Creativity, Equity, Interdisciplinary Learning, Literacy, Praise, School Visits, Teaching and Learning
Demetrius in front of the “HOMies” If energy can be electric and calming at the same time, that’s the feeling in Mr. Demetrius Fuller’s art classroom at the Sokolowski School in Chelsea MA. Student letter plates I walk in and observe twenty-two...
by lindanathan | Mar 3, 2023 | Equity, Family/School Involvement, International, Leadership Development, Literacy, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
Kassie Infante and Marianela Rivera In this on-going series of short posts, I catch up with some of the authors in our upcoming book Building Democratic Learning Environments: A Global Perspective, to be published by Palgrave this fall. Kassie Infante and Marianela...
by lindanathan | Feb 22, 2023 | Equity, Family/School Involvement, Interdisciplinary Learning, Leadership Development, Literacy, School Visits, Teaching and Learning
For decades, questions of assessment have polarized educators. Assessment comes from the root word assidere, or, to sit beside. Over the last forty years, assessment in schools has become synonymous with high stakes tests and the results often dictate whether a...
