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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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Tradition! Remember, remember…

On November 5, 2013   /   Guy Fawkes, NotYourFathersSchool, schools, students, traditions  

At some point when I was off at college, my father had an idea: Since his school was at that point pretty close to half Canadian, perhaps adding some sort of Canada-friendly event to the year would be good. Since many students already (mostly) went home for […]

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FY, Pump Up the Volume! A Movie Reflection

On March 21, 2013   /   Allan Moyle, NotYourFathersSchool, Pump Up The Volume!, social media, students, Tumblr  

I’m pretty consumed by my Education Week blogging these days, but I wanted to come back here to reflect on a film my kids, home from college on spring break, had us watch last Friday, our traditional pizza and movie night. It was good to be all together again, with […]

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CHOPPING WOOD AND INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER

On January 11, 2013   /   21st=century learning, educational technology, NotYourFathersSchool, students, technology  

Lucky me! In a week I start a half-year sabbatical, my first since 1996 and a real privilege for which I will be eternally grateful to my school. On the other side, I’ll be coming back to a new position—as yet to be fully defined—that will allow […]

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HOLIDAY WISHES

On December 24, 2012   /   Amber Dermont, NotYourFathersSchool, schools, stress, students, The Starboard Sea  

It’s been a long slog through autumn, but the solstice is past and the days are indeed growing longer again. Light is vanquishing darkness in our hemisphere. There’s still a lot of darkness around, but I feel quite certain that regular readers of this blog are determined […]

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“WE TEACH”—THE ELUSIVE LANGUAGE OF CHARACTER EDUCATION

On December 13, 2012   /   character education, honor codes, NotYourFathersSchool, rules, school discipline, school values, Steve Clem, students, Vance Wilson, zero tolerance  

While I was in the middle of thinking about my Six C’s for Learning, a hot conversation was taking place in one of the online college counseling communities about the ways in which schools report—or choose not to report—disciplinary infractions to colleges. At least one school stated that […]

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MY SIX C’s FOR 21st-CENTURY LEARNING (OR FOR ALL TIME?)

On December 7, 2012   /   21st-century learning, community, compassion, intellectual curiosity, Liberation Theology, multiple perspectives, NotYourFathersSchool, school values, Social Gospel, students  

At some point in the past couple of years we turned a corner into strange territory where secondary schools, apparently even “college prep” secondary schools, need to devote themselves to producing skilled workers for the 21st-century labor force. Luckily, we have been given multiple lists of these […]

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Buzzwords, Beehives, and School Leadership

On December 28, 2011   /   design thinking, global learning, interdisciplinary learning, multicultural education, NotYourFathersSchool, school leadership, students, teachers  

Global – Interdisciplinary – Green – Technology-mediated – Multicultural – Design-thinkingWhat do these have in common? They’re all buzzwords that have been hovering and swooping around independent schools like a persistent swarm of bees for the past couple of decades. Some are older, comfortably familiar, while others […]

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In Memoriam–David W. Gow

On December 19, 2011   /   David Gow, Not Your Father's School, NotYourFathersSchool, students, teachers, The Gow School  

My father’s school is a bit subdued today, as the former head, my father, died this morning. It’s a lovely, green campus, with some imposing brick edifices and a couple of the original converted farm buildings that still do good service. Despite its location in prime Snow […]

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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.