True cross-curricular partnerships
What do they look like to us? They look like it did yesterday, when teachers from very different disciplines, say Science and English, sit down with us and hammer out a way to merge one’s technological...
View ArticleBody Language
Ted Talks returned to the Hilltop yesterday, resuming the effort by a group of upper school students to build our very own TEDx event some day. We put the screen down in the Fireplace Commons and...
View ArticleOn Being Captain
What makes a great captain? How can I become one? These are some of the questions our students will ponder tomorrow morning in one of my favorite CFL sessions of each year: the varsity Captains...
View ArticleMaking a Difference: 1 Blog Comment’s Effect on U.S. Policy
If you’re a kid, should you take us seriously when we say that anyone can “find your voice and make a difference” in the things that matter most to you? You should… as the story of the trillion-dollar...
View ArticleThat’s what I’m talking about!
Just discovered this great TED Talk yesterday: Drew Dudley on “Everyday Leadership.” He might just be the personification of our brand of leadership. And hilariously funny to boot:
View ArticleMeditations to Remember
More and more these days we’re enabled to share the terrific talents and experiences of our students with the outside world on a regular basis, and even as they happen in real time. Meditations is one...
View ArticleSo what exactly CAN you learn online? or Failing Up
In the last month alone I’ve learned how to: host a Google+ hangout, stream it online, embed it in my blog, and publicize it use a table saw without slicing off my fingers play “Blackbird” by the...
View ArticleHow to spend $30 million
Any Richard Pryor fans out there? I was reminded yesterday of a post I made in an earlier blogging incarnation about Brewster’s Millions, one of my favorite Richard Pryor movies: I use this movie all...
View Article“Unanimous” v. Unified, or How Does a Pacifist Handle Conflict?
I went to a Quaker college, so when I saw the offering at yesterday’s NAIS afternoon workshops entitled, “300 Years of Quaker Governance,” I was immediately intrigued. How did what I remember of my...
View Article2nd Annual Rube Goldberg Challenge Now Live!
The excitement was palpable in Middle School Town Meeting today (yesterday’s Upper School, too) when we officially kicked off the 2nd Annual Rube Goldberg Challenge. To help me make the announcement,...
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