Peter Gow, Trying to Further Education and Educators

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Complementarity, Not Competition: A Birthday Wish

On February 19, 2014   /   Common Core, dyslexia, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, teacher evaluation  

The school vaguely alluded to in the name of this blog was indeed my father’s school, and before that it was his father’s school. Today my father would have been 90, an age that I suspect he is happy never to have attained, as his final mid-80s […]

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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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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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EdCamps and the Dialogue We Need

On January 4, 2014   /   EdCamp Cape Cod, EdCamp Home, independent schools, NAISAC13, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, TABS 2013, Twitter, unconference  

This afternoon I spent several very happy hours exploring yet another confluence of really interesting and powerful notions, the UnConference and the Google Hangout. The place: EdCamp HOME 2.0.  I just want to put it out there that one of the more educational aspects of EdCamp Home […]

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Profit and Profiteering in Education

On December 17, 2013   /   business investment, educational technology, entrepreneurship, for-profit schools, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, schools, standardized testing, students, textbooks  

Lately I was gently (and privately) chided for expressing skepticism about the role of business enterprises—the people who sell us our computers, our textbooks, our desks, our apps, our standardized tests, our paper towels, and our trays of ravioli—in schools. Can’t live without ’em. Gotta have ’em. […]

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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.