Have you ever gone away for the weekend and realized you owed some feedback to a student while you were gone? I am talking about the type of feedback that has to happen before Monday and not by 11 pm on Sunday night either. This just happened to me and thankfully the student submitted his […]
You might wonder if these two words, network and community, are not synonyms. People, together, the way they are supposed to be. Am I right? I am reading Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto (buy it), and Gatto is getting under my skin. At a scant 120 pages, some of which are postscripts, you […]
Once upon a time, Cheryl Bissonette (RLC’s Assistant Head of School) had a vision for what she called an end-of-semester ‘personalized week.’ Her exact words may very well have been: “What if we set up exam week so that students have a mix of required items, such as presentations and exams, and options such as […]
I love taking photos. As a teen I longed for my own camera, yet I had no money. I have none of my own photos from my time in high school. Once in university I bought a small point-and-shoot film camera. I would develop a roll of 24 photos to maybe get two or three […]