EDUCATOR
Pioneer Tomorrow Begins Today! How amazing is it that I get to work at a school that refuses to be outpaced and is seizing our one shot to prepare and impact this generation of students!? A virtual tour of the new Upper School building from Mount Vernon on Vimeo.
The Most Revealing Question It’s a good day when you can get a specific, meaningful answer to this question. At the dinner table or in the crosswalk at the end of the day, I have asked my students and my own children, “So, what did you learn today?” My experience is that one’s answer to…
Learning to Improve by Anthony S. Bryk, Louis Gomez, Alicia Grunow, and Paul LeMahieu Six principles that represent the foundational elements for improvement science carried out in networked communities: * Make the work problem-specific and user-centered * Focus on variation in performance * See the system that produces the current outcomes * We cannot improve…
Collaborative Team Teaching Amy Choi and Pam Ambler presented a compelling and highly useful workshop for team teaching pairs on the first day of pre-planning. As the Upper School scales collaborative team teaching up from Humanities 9 to Humanities 10 and several new inter/multi-disciplinary courses this year, the models and tools they provided will be…
Project Based Learning WorkshopExternal Experts Jill Akers and Shayna Cooke from the World Leadership School lead the Upper School team in professional learning focused on the inquiry-based, teaching approach known as PBL or project based learning. The Upper School team learns how to lead a class discussion without a teacher “at the front.” Each person…