It’s college notification week. All across the country high school seniors are re-living their first grade experience of waiting to see who picks them for kickball. Except now the choice is being made by people who know so little about the kids that put so much faith in them. Why are we so willing to [...]
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Reject The Tyranny of ‘Being Picked’
Posted in College Counseling, Culture, Education, tagged college, Education on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Nature of High School Education
Posted in Education, tagged Education on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
[If you're busy packing for spring break - scroll to the bottom to check out the must see video] Is learning a natural state of being for people young and old? Don’t people naturally crave new information? Do people, especially adolescents, like to gather and share information socially (Exhibit A: Facebook)? If so, then why [...]
Anyone Know A Good Agent…
Posted in Community, Education, tagged Education on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The US Department of Education recently released a promo film about a new program. The producers asked a number of local high school seniors to be/act in it… a few of which you might just recognize. Take a look and you can say that you knew them when….
Our (Open) House
Posted in Education, Uncategorized, tagged Education on January 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… With apologies to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – tomorrow’s (1/8) Open House promises to be a “very, very, very fine (Open) House.” Drop by if you’re looking for a middle and/or high school that: approaches students as individuals who can achieve great things when provided an education that is challenging, creative, caring and [...]
Learning Styles
Posted in Education, tagged Education on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are basically two kinds of learning. One’s relatively recent. The other dates back (way, way back). Take a look at the two videos below. Then select which one you think is more natural, more consistent with the skills we’ve developed via evolution to absorb and process information, and which is more likely to develop [...]
Changing Education
Posted in Education, tagged Education on October 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Here’s another must-see video from a speech by Sir Ken Robinson, who focuses on education and fostering creativity. The video is exceptional for a couple of reasons. First, the animation is just really, really cool. Second, although we are now well into the 21st Century, which decades ago had symbolized a more perfect future, Robinson [...]
A Constellation of Stars
Posted in Community, tagged Community, EBPA, Education on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The stars were in alignment on Sunday for the Graduation of the Class of 2010. In the time between the processional and the recessional, the graduates, staff and the audience: Found out the full meaning of the word “Jmawesome” Heard Emma and Jesse list the ‘best’ first lines of every graduation speech made since the [...]
Elite
Posted in Education, tagged college, Education on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kids at Burke and all over the country have been hearing from colleges over the past week or so. Apparently the responses come in two flavors: “Congratulations, etc., etc.” or “We have reviewed your application, blah, blah, blah.” We kids and adults place way too much faith in the judgments of these not-so-delphic admissions oracles. [...]
One Day w/ PS22 & Matisyahu
Posted in Education, Performing Arts, tagged Education, music on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t already, check out the 5th grade Chorus from PS22 in Staten Island. Incredible. They are great singing on 100′s of songs in their auditorium, as well as singing with the likes of: Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, Crowded House and Common. In the video below they go hasidic reggae with Matishahu. They are [...]
Eighth Grade Writes Books and shares with Preschool
Posted in Community Service, Education, tagged Community Service, Education on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This year we put together a new service learning opportunity for our 8th graders. We reached out to 3 different preschools – Phoebe Hearst, Broadcaster’s Child Development Center and UDC – and asked if our 8th grade students could present a science lesson, a history lesson and an English lesson to their preschool aged children. [...]
Maybe That Video Camera Isn’t Such a Good Gift Idea
Posted in Education, tagged Education on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This American Life from Chicago Public Radio and Showtime is consistently excellent and intriguing. The episode below recounts the true story of how the 5th and 6th grades at an elementary school were changed by the sudden infatuation with pretend video cameras that the kids made out of cardboard. The story is at once funny [...]
Be The Geek
Posted in Education, Science, tagged Education on November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Physics professor, Jim Kakalios, is a geek and a nerd. And he’s very cool: He’s a comic book afficionado. He wrote the Physics of Superheroes and designed a college course called “Everything I Know About Physics I Learned From Reading Comic Books.” He also was Hollywood’s choice to be the science adviser for the movie [...]
Creatology
Posted in Education, tagged Education on November 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Remember being in school? Desks aligned in neat rows. Answers to questions similarly arranged on the chalk board for all of the students to repeat. Education as Henry Ford-designed assembly line. Ken Robinson, a student of creativity and education, believes that traditional education can kill creativity. He has worked to get large school systems to [...]
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