Peter Gow, Trying to Further Education and Educators

Archive for the NotYourFathersSchool Category

The Age of Digital Liberation! (But, oh, there’s this thing…)

“Read the directions to yourself as I read them aloud.” “Open your test booklets to Section Three, read the directions, and begin work.” In my day job I am a college counselor, but what I am increasingly finding is that what I do for a living is […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Being Green

This is the final gloss on the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #11. Being Green Most schools have gotten this message and are beginning to live it. But […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Shortening Your Horizon on StrategicThinking

This is the tenth (and penultimate) in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #10. Shortening your horizon on strategic thinking In the […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Strategic Professional Learning

This is the ninth in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #9. Strategic professional development learning If you are planning to move […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Online Learning

This is the eighth in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #8. Online learning You don’t have to be creating your own […]

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Things You MUST Think About: New Directions for Your Library

This is the seventh in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #7. New directions for your library I don’t think physical books […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Social Media—in the Classroom

This is the sixth in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #6. Social media—in the classroom If you are still blocking such […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Social Media—for Advancement

This is the fifth in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in an earlier post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #5. Social media—for advancement You may disapprove of Twitter, or as […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Smart Assessment of Student Learning

This is the fourth in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in my previous post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #4. Smart assessment of student learning Each student is different, and […]

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Things You MUST Think About: Collaborative Learning and (related issue) Project Design

This is the third in a promised gloss on each of the 11 THINGS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS MUST BE THINKING ABOUT featured in my previous post. (I recap the entire list below the body of this post.) #3. Collaborative learning and (related issue) project design Kids work in […]

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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.