As a School, we are fortunate to have a strong professional development program and the capacity to provide in-house learning opportunities.  On Friday, January 30, noted educator Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach worked with a number of our faculty on the concept of 21st century learning.  Her morning session, Schooling for the 21st Century: Unleashing Student Passion, explored [...]

When I started blogging a year ago, my first several posts were on the topic of “getting connected” and developing a personal learning network (PLN).  As I was early in the process of establishing my own PLN, the issue seemed quite timely; what better way to engage teachers on the matter than to highlight the [...]

I’m a little behind the curve in terms of tackling my reading list, but the holidays gave me a chance to finally read Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis Johnson, and Michael Horn.  As the title suggests, this much-discussed book applies Christensen’s theory of Disruptive [...]