If you followed my blog during the middle of February you had a chance to share in some of the remarkable learning experiences of a group of 14 high school students from Francis Parker School in San Diego on our two-week trip in the rural Philippines. My EdJourney last fall was about finding unique, innovative [...]
Hopefully those of you who followed my EdJourney around the country this fall are also following Tom Little, Head of Park Day School in Oakland, CA on his tour of the country as he visits progressive schools. I found his blog via a tweet from Jonathan Martin, and just had a chance to catch up [...]
On Saturday I will join with fourteen juniors and seniors from Francis Parker School and fly to Dumaguete City, on the island of Negros, 500 miles south of Manila in the Philippines. By Monday we will be gazing down on the lowlands from high on the side of a volcano, hearing the stories of medieval [...]
If you will be attending NAIS/NBOA in Philadelphia this month; or please share with others at your school who are attending: I will be giving three sessions the week of Feb 25th, my first public reports on the principle findings of my EdJourney across the United States this fall, visiting 64 schools to find out [...]
One of the sponsors of my fall EdJourney, Whipple Hill, asked for a trip summary and look ahead. You can go to their blog update page for the full text, but here is a bit of what is in store as I work through the mounds of notes and video I collected: I have been [...]
While private and charter schools may provide many of the flexible proving grounds for the brushfires of innovation, traditional public schools, which at least for now represent 90% of education in America, will be the field on which we succeed or fail. So it was great to meet up via phone yesterday with teacher Don [...]
Starting to affinity map key learning from the trip. The trip is over; now the hard work starts. I have started to synthesize binders full of notes, hours of video interviews, and weeks of reflections from long solo drives. During the trip I kept several main logs, and those will be key to [...]
Many of you have followed along on my trip around the country, and it would not have been as well articulated without the weekly video catch-ups with Bo Adams of Unboundary along the way. We did the final episode last Friday, unfortunately just as the news from Newton was coming out. But after a moment [...]
Mark Crotty is Head at St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas, another great school that I just did not have time to visit on my recently concluded national tour. He has been kind enough to follow via my blog, and over Thanksgiving posted on his own blog some of the questions that my reporting raised. [...]
A journey is about what we learn, both intentionally and by being open. Thanks in large part to the incredible support I received from all of you who have followed and shared this journey, I had the enthusiasm to write up most of those intentional lessons. But I have kept track of some of those [...]