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TEACHING IS CLIENT-FACING, PEOPLE!

On January 6, 2024   /   compassion, families, marketing, NotYourFathersSchool, professionalism  

People may think of classroom teachers as just line workers, busy bees looking after bunches of kids under the supervision and control of principals and heads in front offices who exist at least in part to run interference between tax- and tuition-paying families and the workers assigned […]

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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.