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It’s Been a Week for Questions

On June 1, 2014   /   AISAP, charter schools, Facebook, Independent Curriculum Group, Josie Holford, misogyny, NAISAC15, New Orleans, NotYourFathersSchool, Sandy Hook, Santa Barbara massacre, school segregation  

As I try to sift out the experience of a week, sometimes I reach a point of desperation that comes out in the form of questions. Some recent ones: The post-Santa Barbara conversation over misogyny in the “nerd” community has gone in some interesting directions. But I […]

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Retreat for Academic Leaders, October 2014

On May 21, 2014   /   academic leadership, assessment, curriculum, Independent Curriculum Group, Jonathan Martin, NotYourFathersSchool, PLNs, professional development, professional learning  

Readers may be interested in this upcoming event; I hope to meet some of you there: The Independent Curriculum Group, a consortium of schools sharing a commitment to school-based, mission-driven, teacher-created curriculum and assessment, is excited to invite members of your school community to our inaugural INTERNATIONAL […]

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On Outsourcing: Lunch, the New SAT, and Why We Need Independent Curriculum

On March 6, 2014   /   AP, assessment, College Board, curriculum, food service, Independent Curriculum Group, independent schools, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, outsourcing, SAT, standardized testing  

When I was a child at my father’s school, the barber, the dry-cleaner, and the linen truck were the primary outside service providers. I remember the happy day Pop inked the contract with a food service company, in one gesture removing his most vexatious operational burden. Pretty […]

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Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Good for Us All

On January 29, 2014   /   #PubPriBridge, EdCamp, Gerald Bracey, Independent Curriculum Group, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, Twitter  

A large part of my life these days is a kind of distillation of what it has been for a while: advancing the work of independent schools. I’ve got threads going relating to curriculum and assessment, data development, professional development, even marketing. It’s all pretty fun, and […]

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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.