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HOW TO DO IT: LIVING (UP TO) YOUR SCHOOL’S VALUES AND MISSION

On April 13, 2021   /   ideals, NotYourFathersSchool  

The other day I exhorted schools to start living up to the most meaningful ideals they express in their foundational and aspirational statements, to make missions and values a real part of all of their thinking. I realize that folks may not really have much of a […]

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A Whole-Child Education for Every Child: The Grand Unifying Theory of Education

On March 17, 2014   /   Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Chris Thinnes, ideals, NotYourFathersSchool, schools, strategic directions, students, whole-child learning  

I am not a huge fan of posts that start with a number and proceed to a command: “83 Things You Must Do To Be The Teacher You Want to Be”; “Thirteen C’s Your School Can’t Survive Without.” In general I find these overwhelming, dispiriting, and ultimately […]

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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.