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4 Must-Read Books for the Beginning of the School Year
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain This book by Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing ...
Read More Lean Into Discomfort: Developing Better Skills to Really Talk about Race in Schools
As we post this, events are unfolding in Charlottesville and across the nation that bring a new urgency to our need to increase our racial ...
Read More “Make Box Brownies”: A Summer Pilgrimage
For educators, summer means many things: catching up on all the TV and books one missed during the school year; taking vacations; sleeping in; engaging ...
Read More Summer School: Gearing Up for Teaching Foundations 2017
We’re well into the 21st Century, and the buzzwords of a new era are part of our daily lexicon now: project-based learning, design thinking, differentiation, ...
Read More The Learning Continues
At the end of my final faculty meeting as Dean of Faculty Development at The Athenian School, I invited everyone to turn and talk to ...
Read More It’s Okay to Let Go
Gaps, detours and time away from our career path is not necessarily encouraged or acknowledged as a valuable use of time in our independent schools, ...
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