by lindanathan | May 13, 2023 | Books, Equity, Family/School Involvement, Interdisciplinary Learning, International, Leadership Development, Literacy, online learning, Praise, Professional Development, School Visits, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
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...
by lindanathan | May 13, 2023 | Boston Arts Academy, Creativity, Equity, Family/School Involvement, Interdisciplinary Learning, International, Leadership Development, Literacy, online learning, Praise, Professional Development, School Visits, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
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...
by lindanathan | Apr 25, 2023 | Creativity, Equity, Interdisciplinary Learning, International, Leadership Development, Outdoor Education, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning
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...
by lindanathan | Mar 31, 2023 | Books, Equity, Family/School Involvement, International, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
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 3, 2023 | Equity, Family/School Involvement, International, Leadership Development, Literacy, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
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 7, 2023 | Books, International, Leadership Development, Professional Development, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized
In the mid-1980s, before Pilot schools and Charter schools were mainstream, I opened a middle school for the arts that had more autonomy than traditional district schools. Although we had no special governance status, the fact that we were a bilingual school for the...
