Nearly every school year, somewhere early on, I end up doing some sort of informal survey, or engaging in a broad conversation with my students about different ways of learning. The learning strategies I touch on mostly draw from Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
This year, just ankle-deep in our first unit of inquiry […]
Coming off the back of my research on the world of timetabling, I find this lingering question of what should be part of each and every day. I suppose when I ask this, I’m mostly asking about a school day, because those are the bulk […]
I read an article today that got me thinking about the notion of Green or Environmental schools. The Hindu, an English-language Indian newspaper, featured the school Sholai Cloaat. A small “enviro-ed” school in the mountains of Tamil Nadu.
This afternoon a friend called me up and asked if I could meet him for a coffee and take a look at a paper he was writing for his Masters program. This friend is one of the clearest thinking people I know, and he was feeling really spun around by the expectations of his program.
I had a conversation with Madeleine Cox a little while ago that kept wiggling around the back of my brain. At least I’m pretty sure I did. If she wasn’t there at the time, somehow she managed to squeeze wigglingly in there with it.
