by lindanathan | Apr 26, 2023 | Equity, Family/School Involvement, Leadership Development, Outdoor Education, Praise, School Visits, Teaching and Learning
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...
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 | 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 6, 2023 | Books, Leadership Development, Literacy, School Visits, Teaching and Learning
Nora Hassan Haddadi is an alumna of Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership (PSi-5). Her Capstone Project focused on the design and implementation of progressive reform of inequitable instructional practices and systems that have historically underserved...
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...
