From http://www.psdgraphics.com/backgrounds/blank-world-map/ Last week I finally gave my blog a name–Ross All Over The Map. Since starting it almost two months ago I have simply called it Ross’ Blog in part because giving it a real name might obligate me to keep it up for the long term and in part because I could not think of […]
Some Thoughts Regarding Seamless Digital Integration
In a conversation by a neighborhood pool on a recent Saturday evening in Atlanta, I found myself trying to put language to something I have been troubled by for some time. As we find technology integration becoming more and more seamless, and as information becomes increasingly integrated through the funnel […]
A Thought for NAIS: An Emerging Practice Cohort Structure
I have a proposal for a structure that will sustain and support innovation and emerging practice in independent schools. As conversations are taking place across the country and indeed beyond our national boundaries about what our schools will need to become over the coming years and decades, our institutions and […]
The Role of Communication in Establishing a Progress-Culture in Schools
School faculties and school leaders need families and students to exert the same attachment to innovation and to progress in their schools that they have demonstrated to technological innovation and progress elsewhere. Think about how quickly we have moved toward the latest iterations of the digital age—we are forever poised […]
Interdisciplinary Work and Real World Learning
We see an increasing need for generalists. What is your vision on schools/education to meet that need? I got this question from Arnold Beekes of the Society of Creative Generalists after posting something on their webpage (http://creativegeneralist.org/), and interestingly it jives in some ways with […]
September 11: I could not stop watching because I could not begin to understand
View of Mt. Pisgah from Asheville School (Photo: AdmissionsQuest) I read the following comments during the September 11th Commemoration Assembly at The Westminster Schools today. On September 11, 2001, I was teaching at a boarding school in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and I remember that I had a […]