Schools as Learning Communities

I have been doing a lot of research about communities lately; currently I am reading Roland S. Barth’s Learning by Heart (2001), which I am enjoying very much. In one section of the book he talks about communities of learners, definitions of what they are, and what influences them in schools. He speaks of school [...]

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Head Up – Looking Forward

I have been absent for the past few months due to an unexpected change in my life that has taken me some time to get used to. These events have caused me to rethink what to do next in my life, to begin a search for something I felt would be meaningful, challenging, and full [...]

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Self Directed Learning

In the November issue of Educational Leadership there was an interesting article Students at Bat, I found a correlation to the article and conversations about self directed learning, both for students and adults. The article used an analogy of how playing neighborhood baseball taught many skills to children, for example: they chose teams, picked positions, [...]

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