Wit & Wisdom
February 2013
Gifted Student or Test-taker Extraordinaire?
The iconic educator Howard Gardner sends a brilliant Letter . . . Read more
The Flipped Class Manifest
"The Flipped Classroom is an intentional shift of content which in turn helps move students back to the center of learning" rather than the products of schooling." Read more
From the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence
In an OLA school environment, we would find group and individual achievements and excellence praised, rather than superiority or domination. -Poka Laenui Read more
Mother Nature's Child: New Documentary Trailer
Children today spend on average spend less than 40 minutes "outside" Read more
Legendary Quincy Jones riffs about technology, music, math, creativity, and . . . parenting
" . . .We'd go to executive conferences with Bill Gates and he'd say, 'Alan will you please take over?' . . . " - Quincy Jones 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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