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Data Are People, Too

On May 8, 2014   /   ACT, CWRA, data, data-informed decision-making, ERB, EXPLORE, HSSSE, ISEE, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, PLAN, PSAT, SSAT  

We keep hearing about data, and how data analysis is going to help education chart its own course toward salvation. I’ve been swimming in a sea of data lately, trying to make out some landmarks. When the accrediting process for independent schools added a kind of data […]

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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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Ambassadors All: A Proposal

On January 9, 2014   /   EdCamp, independent schools, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, unconference  

I posted this message yesterday (January 8) in several of the National Association of Independent Schools online communities. Since these are for members only, I was encouraged to find a more public forum. So here is the message, as posted: Over the past year or so I […]

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Reflections on Standards, Grades, and Excuses

On December 14, 2013   /   Amada Torres, Andrew Niblock, Common Core, Council for Aid to Education, CWRA, grade inflation, grades, grading, Jonathan Martin, National Association of Independent Schools, New Tech Network, NotYourFathersSchool, St. Ann's School  

These are strange times for educational standards. First, there’s political polarization around the Common Core has everyone a swivet: Are they evil imposed from above, a federalist plot to undermine local control of schools? Or are they a Trojan horse for more testing and yet further reductions […]

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Thinking Retention: Beliefs and Dreams

On November 12, 2013   /   AISAP, Association of Independent School Admission Professionals, families, internal marketing, mission statements, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, student retention, students, Tiffany Hendryx  

It’s the time of year when schools are thinking extra hard about next year’s enrollment numbers, which means it can also be the time of year when some families are thinking about making a move. Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with a faculty about retention […]

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Back Here Soon—Please Stay Tuned!

On August 1, 2013   /   Education Week, ISED listserv, National Association of Independent Schools, NotYourFathersSchool, schools, Teachers of The Future, Vinnie Vrotny  

Just another quick update. If you’re a follower you see that the hosting for Not Your Father’s School has changed to my personal business website. I don’t plan to use the blog to push my business, other than in the ways that speculation can lead to ideas […]

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EXCITING CHANGES IN MY BLOGGING WORLD

On February 14, 2013   /   blogging, Education Week, National Association of Independent Schools, National Network of Schools in Partnership, NotYourFathersSchool  

It’s apparent that the pace of my blogging here has slowed down considerably in 2013. But there’s a reason for this, a reason that has me pretty excited. Starting tomorrow (February 15), I will be blogging at Education Week thrice weekly under the title, Independent Schools, Common Perspectives. […]

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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.