• Hualalai Academy: Practical Guide for Developing 21st Century Learning Communities

    March 1, 2012

    Today’s (2/28/2012) afternoon workshop at NAIS 2012 was presented by educators at Hualalai Academy on Kailua-Kona, HI.  Their presentation was titled, Practical Guide for Developing 21st Century Learning Communities.  Their workshop was a hands-on, three-hour experience using the tools they have implemented and practiced with their faculty as they went through change in leadership and…

  • Effectiveness of gender-based pedagogical strategies to improve learning in an all-girls classoom

    February 29, 2012

    [Guest Blog by Shetal Shah, a teacher from Atlanta Girls School, Atlanta, Ga.  Shetal is a member of the Edward E. Ford Fellowship Program.  She participates in a yearlong cohort of Atlanta Public School and independent school teachers studying what we know about teaching and learning from a neuroscience perspective.] I think I just completed…

  • Dreaming with an IPad

    February 29, 2012

    Shilo Shiv Suleman, Using Technology to Enable Dreaming, is a wonderful TED talk about how she uses an IPad to make dreams come true.  Watch her inspiring talk and demonstration. Ms. Shiv Suleman says: Technology should enable magic not kill it. As a book illustrator for many years, she creates an interactive IPad storytelling platform.  …

  • What schools can do to encourage innovation?

    February 26, 2012

    In a recent edition of Forbes, Holly Green wrote a piece, Anti-Innovation: 10 Proven Ways Not to Innovate.  I stumbled across the piece from a tweet by Guy Kawasaki at (click here).  Following his tweets leads me to a wealth of resources (@GuyKawasaki). I really liked what I read in her piece and it got…

  • Who was your best teacher and why?

    February 24, 2012

    What qualities do good teachers possess?  Can we settle on a set of qualities that all teachers should possess and can they be taught?  There are a plethora of articles, commentaries, and books written on what goes into making a good teacher.  I would advocate that contained in these pieces are the framework for what…

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