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Here is an interesting piece on an elementary school in Arizona, Mesquite Elementary School. It went from an average school to an excelling school after adopting a program called, Reteach and Enrich. Below is a video describing the school and what it did to generate high levels of success. Here is a summary of their…
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“Can you take these pieces of pasta, some tape, and a glue gun and build a bridge across the water that a car can go over and a boat can go under?” This was the challenge presented to pre-first students at The Westminster Schools today during their Design Thinking lab (aka Skunkworks Lab). Every student…
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Today was the perfect day for a walk with clear skies and a refreshing breeze. Today, I had the opportunity to accompany approximately 120 3rd grade students from Drew Charter School as they toured the East Lake Community Learning Garden and Farm. The Learning Garden was established in 2010 in Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood. Not only is the garden a…
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Schools have some significant challenges ahead if they are going to embrace and reconcile the opposites of the “rational” versus the “emotional” individual. For the purposes of this post, consider the rational individual to embody the qualities of the intellectual, the scientist or the literary critic. While the emotional individual manifests the qualities of the…
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Lisa Kristine’s images of slavery around the world break my heart. I look into the eyes of these people and can only wonder: why do we treat each other with such cruelty? Is it only about the 13 billion dollars of profit generated through the slave industry? If so, we should be ashamed of our…
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