by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Arts Education, Boston Arts Academy
Last Friday, I traveled to Connecticut with BAA theatre teacher Juanita Rodrigues and five of our theatre students for the Educational Disparity and Minority Youth symposium, presented by Quinnipiac University School of Law and Yale Law School. I was invited to speak...
by admin | Sep 12, 2011 | Literacy
Beacon Press (the publisher of my book, The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test) put together a great blog that compiles the summer reading lists of education authors. Click here to see what books I enjoyed this summer (many of which are from Boston Arts...
by admin | Jun 22, 2011 | Arts Education
How can we prevent districts and school systems from reverting to the status quo? How can we encourage schools and school systems to truly innovate and to withstand the pressure of being sucked back to a laissez-faire time? How can we be unionized and have the...
by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Arts Education, Boston Arts Academy, Teaching and Learning
An important milestone in the life of a Boston Arts Academy dancer unfolded last week as 17 seniors presented their 2011 Senior Dance Concert (SDC). How significantly this embodies RICO, our habits of the graduate. Students work for months on invention and revision....
by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | Boston Arts Academy, Creativity
Some of you may know that the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Education Resource Center (BSOERC) is housed in the BAA/Fenway High School Library. The BAA/Fenway Library and BSOERC won the 2004 American Association of School Librarians National School Library Media...
