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 […]
From the South Asheville Cemetery to Thurburbo Maius
Vintage Postcard depiction of Asheville, North Carolina from Beaucatcher Ridge Just east of downtown Asheville, North Carolina the land rises steeply toward Beaucatcher Ridge and on its other side, as it falls away further east, is the Kenilworth neighborhood where my wife and I lived in the late nineties. It is a lovely shaded place that, […]
Death to the “Arguable” Thesis, Part 2: Before We Believe, Let It Be Up-Side Down
In an earlier post, I called for the death of the arguable thesis (http://jrosspeters.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/death-to-the-arguable-thesis-before-we-argue-lets-believe/). In short, I asserted that we should teach our students to discover a belief before we allow them to worry about whether their claim is arguable. Several of the responses to the piece echoed a similar […]