Peter Gow, Trying to Further Education and Educators

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Teamwork and Grace

On December 30, 2013   /   collaboration, community, NotYourFathersSchool, school sports, teamwork  

I found myself in an interesting conversation yesterday with a coeval—in fact, a high school classmate. We were watching a hockey game involving our distant alma mater, the unlikeliest of fans and the unlikeliest of alumni lettermen in this sport—I the one-time manager and he the statistician. […]

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MY SIX C’s FOR 21st-CENTURY LEARNING (OR FOR ALL TIME?)

On December 7, 2012   /   21st-century learning, community, compassion, intellectual curiosity, Liberation Theology, multiple perspectives, NotYourFathersSchool, school values, Social Gospel, students  

At some point in the past couple of years we turned a corner into strange territory where secondary schools, apparently even “college prep” secondary schools, need to devote themselves to producing skilled workers for the 21st-century labor force. Luckily, we have been given multiple lists of these […]

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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.