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Being Who You Are

On June 11, 2014   /   dyslexia, Mindstorms, NotYourFathersSchool, samba schools, Seymour Papert, summer camp, summer learning loss, summer reading, The Gow School, whole-child education  

A recurring moment in my life as an overnight camp administrator for many summers was when older campers and staff—many time “lifers” who had been campers and moved on—declared in some comfortable setting that “camp is the only place I can really be myself.” I never actually […]

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Whatever Our Passions, There Is a Time to Be Still and Listen

On March 12, 2014   /   Advanced Placement, blogosphere, Deborah Meier, dyslexia, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, PLNs, school change, school missions, technology  

Every now and then I am overcome by guilt over my own role in this echo chamber of the blogosphere. I’m as guilty as the next guy of (un?-)helpfully providing lists of “11 Things Your School Has to Be Thinking About”; it’s a bit about arrogance (I’ll […]

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Complementarity, Not Competition: A Birthday Wish

On February 19, 2014   /   Common Core, dyslexia, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, teacher evaluation  

The school vaguely alluded to in the name of this blog was indeed my father’s school, and before that it was his father’s school. Today my father would have been 90, an age that I suspect he is happy never to have attained, as his final mid-80s […]

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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.