Stories & Announcements
Trusting Yourself
When you feel confident about who you are, you’re in a position to create a safe space for students and the other special people in your life.
What’s Missing from Public Discourse | Hooray for Monday
If we can teach our students to speak and listen to one another with respect, we’ll be setting them, and ourselves, up for a hopeful future.
4I’s: Imagination
The 4I's: ImaginationImagination is exhibiting the skills of creative and independent thinkers: the courage to create, a joyful spirit, the ability to generate ideas and devise solutions, and the ability to learn through play. Facing challenges — in school and...
4I’s: Integrity
The 4I's: IntegrityIntegrity is acting as a member of a democratic society. Demonstrating honesty: the ability to stand up for one’s beliefs; the confidence to make decisions according to one’s value system; the ability to listen to, respect, collaborate, and learn...
4I’s: Inquiry
The 4I's: InquiryInquiry is acting as a researcher: problem-solving, generating questions, collecting and analyzing information, and proposing solutions. Relying on curiosity and collaboration; internal motivation to learn, wonder and keen observation, paying close...
4I’s: Intellect
The 4I's: IntellectIntellect means learning, understanding, and applying content knowledge in reading and literature, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts, to address personal, communal, national, and global problems and experiences. Thinking critically...
100 Wonder-ful Weeks | Hooray for Monday
A reflection on the wonder that has fueled 100 weeks of Hooray for Monday.
Joy
JoyJoy means students and teachers know they are valued, and feel a sense of belonging in school. It means students and teachers embrace an asset-based stance, and take pride in their work, including their work-in-progress. It means learners know their work is...
The 5 Core Elements: Student as Expert
The 5 Core Elements: Student as ExpertAdults trust that students have the ability, and the inclination, to solve academic and social problems, instead of assuming students need adults to solve problems for them. It means student voice and ideas are abundant in every...
Purpose, Persistence, and Action
Purpose, Persistence, and ActionStudents are fully engaged, intellectually, emotionally, and physically, in what they are doing. They persevere in solving problems, making discoveries along the way. They experience failure as a necessary part of the learning process. ...
