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Thoughts about Freedom and Change

I have been thinking about something a colleague said to me last week. We had been watching part of the film Race to Nowhere as part of a p…

Started by Molly Smith

3 Feb 21
Reply by Fred Bartels

The Invisible Curriculum: Invisible No More

The Invisible Curriculum: Invisible No More I find it to be exciting in contemporary educational pedagogy when STEM and the Flipped Classro…

Started by Judy Kane

0 Feb 21

Collegial Relationships: Making Time for Team

Collegial Relationships: Making Time for Team As with all educators, I live and die by the calendar.  In the life of a typical teacher ther…

Started by Judy Kane

0 Feb 21

NAIS AC13 Online Community News and Discussion

NAIS AC13 Online Community is Now Open. Let the conversations and sharing begin! Greetings and welcome to the NAIS 2013 Annual Conference O…

Started by Chris Bigenho

1 Feb 15
Reply by Chris Bigenho

Report review in the Lower School

In the past the Principal of the Lower School would review all 200 report cards. This year we are holding a faculty meeting (with very wond…

Started by Sylvia Walsh

0 Feb 8

STEM In Preschool

  As the push for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) sweeps our educational system, it makes good sense to begin introducing…

Started by Susan Morris

0 Jan 29

Disruptive Innovation - Universities in the High School space

I was interested to see job postings this morning on the NAIS site for teachers for Stanford's Online High School program. For example, her…

Started by Demetri Orlando

0 Jan 25

Fitness testing in Independent Schools

This year the President's Council on Fitness and American Alliance for Health,Physical Education, Recreation and Dance have change fitness…

Started by Mark McEachern

1 Jan 24
Reply by Jeremy Mattsson

Taking the letters out of G-R-A-D-I-N-G

I would really like to remove grading and evaluating student understanding by scoring students with percentages and A's, B's, C's, etc.  As…

Started by Jeremy Mattsson

4 Jan 23
Reply by Jeremy Mattsson

Lessons from a Luddite

I admit it, I am a Luddite. I was raised on the values of hard work, damn it, and I was taught to believe that if the work wasn’t hard then…

Started by Bill Metcalfe

2 Jan 21
Reply by Susan Morris

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