Peter Gow, Trying to Further Education and Educators

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The Narrative We Need for Strategic Change

On April 8, 2014   /   Beaver Country Day School, coding, design thinking, NotYourFathersSchool, project-based learning, school change, strategic change, strategic directions, teacher autonomy  

Yesterday I found myself in a discussion with a head of school who was decrying the ways in which—in his opinion—the tradition of teacher autonomy has limited the development of new and improved practice in independent schools. Taking the long view, I have to say that I […]

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Why Twitter Beats February

On February 21, 2014   /   assessment, curriculum, design thinking, EdCamp, educational technology, experiential learning, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, PLNs, schools, Twitter  
Why Twitter Beats February

It’s February, in case you hadn’t noticed. The weather, mercifully not snowing in Boston, at least, remains bleak and gray, the skies matching the snowbanks along the streets and sidewalks. Some vast percentage of the Lower 48 has experienced extremes of weather in the past month or […]

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Buzzwords, Beehives, and School Leadership

On December 28, 2011   /   design thinking, global learning, interdisciplinary learning, multicultural education, NotYourFathersSchool, school leadership, students, teachers  

Global – Interdisciplinary – Green – Technology-mediated – Multicultural – Design-thinkingWhat do these have in common? They’re all buzzwords that have been hovering and swooping around independent schools like a persistent swarm of bees for the past couple of decades. Some are older, comfortably familiar, while others […]

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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.