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The last three years in my position as Head of the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School, a K-8 Schechter Network Day School of nearly 130 students located in Jacksonville, Florida, has overlapped with an explosion of interest in 21st century learning and educational technology.  In large ways, our school has been shaped by the worksRead more

Posted with kind permission from Shelley Wright I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. Hear me out. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifiesRead more

There is a profound gap between the knowledge and skills most students learn in school and the knowledge and skills they need in typical 21st century life. It has been an ongoing concern of mine, as I visit schools I work with, how vast the gap is between children’s experience of the world as theyRead more

This blog first appeared on “Raising Kvell” and is posted here with kind permission of the author, Esther Kustanowitz. I’m not the first aunt to think her nephew is awesome. But regardless of any bias that I might (or do) possess, I’ve come to appreciate the Inadvertent Philosopher who lives somewhere in my oldest nephew’s insatiablyRead more

A new initiative for schools in the UK at the moment is to encourage critical thinking and active learning. These schools can gain the accolade “thinking schools” by developing these skills. By educators slightly changing their roles from dispersing information to facilitating learning through independent research, magnificent achievements can be made. I visited a school in theRead more