I distinctly remember in 1997 during my interview for a position teaching history and coaching soccer at St. Andrew’s (Maryland), then Head of the Upper School John Holden saying, “we…
In November 2021, we interviewed Tom Woelper, the founding Head of School at New England Innovation Academy (NEIA) in Massachusetts, to get his perspective on the value of Mind, Brain,…
It is crucial to re-work our school day to create an environment in which students can sleep well and finish the race for sleep.
Having a classroom built on trusting relationships that accepted that failure could be a part of learning led all of us to be more vulnerable and to take more risks. And this, in turn, led me to feel more comfortable letting go of more control to add more joy into the classroom.
In part two of the blog series, Dr. Kelleher translates three more of Carl Hendrick's six elements of effective classroom teaching and explains how they can be implemented in a virtual learning environment.
Yes, we are all teaching and learning online now, but the core of what we do should be the same because the core is based on how students learn best. We are reskinning teaching, not reinventing it.