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CODING IS JUST THE NEW SURVEYING

On November 23, 2014   /   NotYourFathersSchool, students, Thomas Steele-Maley  

A tip from a wise friend, Thomas Steele-Maley, brought me back to some old school reading the other day: Theodore Sizer’s The Age of the Academies, from 1964. A look at the roots and fruits of the pre-Civil War “academy movement” in the United States, the little […]

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A New Conference Experience: The Association of Boarding Schools

On December 8, 2013   /   Bill Ivey, boarding schools, EdCamp, independent schools, Kim Sivick, NotYourFathersSchool, Pete Upham, The Association of Boarding Schools, the Bridge Year, The Hill School, Thomas Steele-Maley, unconference, Zack Lehman  

I wasn’t sure quite what to expect from my first experience at The Association of Boarding Schools annual conference, but, as good events do, #TABS13 (as the hashtag goes) left me with plenty to think about and a sense that some of the things I’ve been yammering […]

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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.