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At the Center for Teaching, we promote (design and implement) professional development programs for teachers at Drew Charter School and The Westminster Schools. We rely on the expertise of teachers in our school communities to offer their time, knowledge, and experience to teach colleagues. Our faculty cohort program, a group of five Drew Charter and…
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If you have 19 minutes of time, please watch this fabulous TED talk by Naomi Klein that she gave at the TEDWomen in December 2010. Once you are finished, come back to my post for some reflections on how her ideas pertain to education. Here are some questions that came to my mind after I…
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There is a very good series of articles in Education Week on rethinking evaluation and the future of teaching. I highly recommend reading these series for public and independent school teachers and administrators. Many interesting ideas and provocative questions come out of this series that hopefully inform the dialogue that leads towards excellent schooling…
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Spending five days at home, snowbound in Atlanta, I was able to read some books, blogs, news stories, and think about questions that pertain to school change. Westminster Schools in Atlanta is embarking on a strategic planning process that started last year. I happen to sit on a committee of board and faculty members that are wrestling…
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I was fascinated by Dr. Tae’s, a physics professor at Northwestern University, presentation on what needs to happen to transform how we teach and learn. He looked at this question from the perspectives of higher and secondary education. He compared the type of teaching and learning that goes on in traditional setting with the teaching and learning…
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