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PRESS & UPDATES
ARTICLES: School 2.0
Introducing Technology to the Faculty
May 16th, 2012 - What do you do with a talented group of faculty who’ve already demonstrated success in technology integration on a Sunday? Take them to the next level! Each month a large group of our faculty attends one of our technology rollout workshops. More...
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Is It Worth Taking the Time to Cultivate Habits of Mind?
May 10th, 2012 - Two recent books, Timothy D. Wilson’s Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change and Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, pick up on a point made by Aristotle that character is formed by habits and habits are amenable to creation and to change. More...
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Competition
April 27th, 2012 - Parents often worry about competition in childhood. What does losing a game do to a child’s budding self-esteem? Does the pressure to get good grades in school do damage? If a child does his best and still gets a C+ or fails to make the team, does this scar him for life? Shouldn’t the enlightened school protect students from cutthroat competition? More...
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The Imagination Lab
April 17th, 2012 - Ned Hallowell’s blog, “Curiosity and Imagination,” made me wonder if Dr. Hallowell had a degree in mind reading as well as psychiatry. The concerns he raises are central to the curriculum of a great school and of central concern to every parent contemplating sending a child to that school. More...
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Curiosity and Imagination
April 13th, 2012 - What distinguishes a great education from a good and solid one is the extent to which the student’s curiosity and imagination flourish and grow and the extent to which a student remains curious and loves the life of the imagination after school is done. More...
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