Parents
August 2012
The Bad Habits You Learn in School
And it's not about smoking. John Coleman via Harvard Business Review Read more
A 14-year-old and her Love-Hate Relationship with Twitter
I hate Twitter because it makes me feel bad about myself. I hate Twitter because it makes me feel good about myself. Read more
Phyllis Diller on Children
"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller RIP Read more
Time to Change STEM to STEAM
Innovation: STEM enables it. But Art drives it. Read more
8th Graders "Design" Their Way to Learn Math, Science & Writing
STEM to STEAM. Make it real. Make it matter. Let me see how it's done, and I will show you next. Science, Technology, Engineering, Math + the ARTS (Design) = STEAM Read more
A Fine Line
Do you have a first-rate intelligence? Read more
Technology: The Parent Connection
Parent Involvement & School Technology - What Can it Look Like? Read more
Financial Literacy: Making Math Relevant
Guest Post By Joe Ganem Ph. D.: Schools Fail Teaching Students "Quantitative Literacy" Read more
Autistic Awesome Innovator - Meet Temple Grandin PH.D.
"Different Not Less" - Temple Grandin - "Think Of It As A Door" Read more
The Day I Abolished Grading
"There was no love for learning. It was a game that I was perpetuating - and I was done perpetuating it." Joe Bower Read moreNow, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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