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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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Girls and Maker Culture: Nothing New

On April 24, 2014   /   Erector Sets, girls in STEM, girls' education, Josie Holford, Maker Culture, NotYourFathersSchool, Pam Moran, Poughkeepsie Day School, STEM  

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of experiencing Poughkeepsie Day School’s admirable “From STEM to STEAM and Beyond” conference, including an outstanding “un”-keynote by Pam Moran and Alison Dwier-Selden and some terrific sessions on STEAM education and “Maker” culture in schools. As I bade farewell to […]

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In Which I Confess to Lacking Grit, Apparently, and Blame It on Family

On February 2, 2014   /   Chris Lehman, disadvantaged students, grit, Ira Socol, Josie Holford, Laura Deisley, NotYourFathersSchool, persistence, school success, teaching  

The most exciting place I knew growing up was the “everyday” living room of my grandparents’ house. It was just across the street, so I could go there whenever I wanted.   The room also served as the main reading room of the “library” that was their house, […]

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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.