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Learning by Teaching: Experiential Education in Action for New Educators
At the heart of Crane Country Day School’s mission is experiential education. Teachers are challenged with creating thought-provoking experiential lessons, which often include culminating projects ...
Read More Seizing the Day Inside and Outside of the Classroom: The Diamond Curriculum
Santa Barbara Middle School offers students in grades 6-9 a profound educational experience, guiding young people as they transition to adolescence. Through ancient traditions and ...
Read More Supporting Great Teachers to Stay
As a former Dean of Faculty at an independent school and now Executive Director of the California Teacher Development Collaborative (CATDC), I know well the ...
Read More Healthy Sexuality Education
I became the “consent lady” by default. A health educator for 25 years, I value all aspects of wellness--sex education included. While developing the Health ...
Read More A Case for Ongoing Professional Development
The CATDC’s Ongoing Programs, series of 3-5 meetings led by local educators, are some of our most agile and responsive professional development offerings and the ...
Read More Image of the Child and the Reggio Emilia Approach
Last spring I was invited by New School-West—as a parent—to travel to Reggio Emilia, Italy, on a Five State Educator’s Tour with the entire faculty ...
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