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Where Do Teachers Do Their Best Work?

On October 27, 2013   /   Angela Duckworth, boarding schools, Carol Dweck, character education, Diane Ravitch, Michelle Rhee, NotYourFathersSchool, school reform, schools, Socrates, Theodore Roosevelt  

Here’s a challenge: Ask your faculty, “Where, in all your efforts here, do you do your best, most important work?” If your school is truly mission-driven and values-based, and if you provide your students with anything more than a daily sequence of academic instruction, you’re likely to […]

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“WE TEACH”—THE ELUSIVE LANGUAGE OF CHARACTER EDUCATION

On December 13, 2012   /   character education, honor codes, NotYourFathersSchool, rules, school discipline, school values, Steve Clem, students, Vance Wilson, zero tolerance  

While I was in the middle of thinking about my Six C’s for Learning, a hot conversation was taking place in one of the online college counseling communities about the ways in which schools report—or choose not to report—disciplinary infractions to colleges. At least one school stated that […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.