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Let's talk about whether the last 20 years' worth of work on curriculum, professional development, and teaching for social justice is in fact a new movement, The New Progressivism. The website link is to an Education Week online Commentary piece.
Website: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/30/35gow_web.h27.html
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"Progressive" 21 Replies
Started by Peter Gow. Last reply by Peter Gow Jan 10.
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Comment by Laura Webber on November 30, 2008 at 11:34am - Hi Peter! I am an old friend of Rebecca's (Camp Favorite, 1991) and she told me about you. I currently work as the Upper School Technology Coordinator at Roland Park Country School in Baltimore. I studied the history of progressive education at NYU for a while and am really interested in getting to know your ideas. Becki sent me your blogs, so I'll be reading and saying hi!
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Comment by Demetri Orlando on November 17, 2008 at 11:23am -
"What's new is old" (first seen on www.scmorgan.net.)
I pulled out just the portion of Dewey speaking, and am reposting it, b/c in my first attempt the video file size was way too big- about 12Mb. I captured it with Jing and saw no way to compress it, so I've redone it with Camtasia.
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Comment by Peter Gow on November 12, 2008 at 9:45am -
For the past few months I've been reflecting on this topic on my own at my New Progressivism blog. I'd love some comments!
Thanks--PG
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Comment by Susan Carter Morgan on May 9, 2008 at 12:02am - Well said. I look forward to more discussion.
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Comment by Peter Gow on May 7, 2008 at 8:06am
- I stand corrected on the quote; never believe a printer! But I do enjoy the sentiment.
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Comment by Josie Holford on May 6, 2008 at 9:35pm -
Hi Peter: Love the image. "Are we downhearted?...Nooo!!!"
Pre dates the Blitz by a few decades: (1915)
http://www.ww1photos.com/AreWeDownheartedNoNoNo.html
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Comment by JP Culley on May 6, 2008 at 6:10pm - Excellent piece, Peter. I've already distributed a copy of the article to our academic leadership. You did a masterful job of crystallizing what is going on in forward thinking independent schools. Thanks for writing it (and for recognizing that, unfortunately, the P word is tough to use in some parts of the country.)
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Comment by Marti Weston on May 6, 2008 at 5:17pm - I am checking around to find the school login and password for Ed Week. The first paragraphs look really cool.
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Comment by Peter Gow on May 6, 2008 at 4:49pm
- Sorry about the weird image (it's Churchill, from the Blitz), but the Ning wouldn't let me start the group without an image--PG
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Laurie,
You are at the heart of what motivates adults to learn. Excellent. Most of my failure had to do with my inability to connect meaning, purpose, and passion to learning that helped teachers improve teaching (this means doing something diffe...
Hi Preston,
I think that PD – and this refers to all types of PD, not just PD related to technology – should encourage and support learning:
• within one's area of expertise
• within one's area of passion
• that complement's one's area of experti...
Thanks, Preston, for sharing the article on finding time.
~Laurie
Time is our enemy, for sure. Sadly too much PD is designed around time and budgets. But honesty is encouraged here as well.
Time is required as teachers deconstruct and construct ideas while creating predictability and control in ready-to-use mat...
Thanks, Liz. We just haven't had much luck with getting teachers to give up those blocks, at least not on a consistent enough basis to make any real progress. I hope you see some real success in making this paradigm shift.
It would come out of their free block. I'm planning to meet with them every two to three weeks for a semester.
I used it pretty actively for about two years and ultimately found it more annoying than useful. Keeping a decent signal to noise ratio took too much care and time. I'm glad others find it wonderful, but it didn't really work for me.
Where is the teacher's time coming from to engage in these more personalized approaches to PD? We would gladly do more of this sort of thing with teachers, but even those motivated to do so have a lot of trouble making time for them.
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