Posted by Chip on August 10, 2010
It’s nearing the beginning of another academic year when the educational accountability machine starts cranking out new sets of data — data to be sorted and scrubbed by so-called professional learning communities who will disaggregate the information to identify deficits and plan interventions to be responded to and evaluated in the continuous improvement cycle of [...]
Categories: Building Relationships with Children, Developmental Education, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, The School Year |
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Posted by Chip on February 8, 2010
A short time ago, we lost one of the clearest and most courageous voices in the field of education. Rachael Kessler, author of The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School and a leader in the field of social and emotional learning, passed away at the end of January.
Rachael knew [...]
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Tags: Building Community, building relationships with children, PassageWorks, Rachael Kessler, social-emotional learning, The Soul of Education | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on October 23, 2007
Perhaps the greatest joys of being parents are the small moments of watching and listening to what our children are doing and saying around the house when they are playing with us, cooking with us, setting the table and doing other chores with us. Also, we delight watching them at soccer or dance, tackling an [...]
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