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Education and the Search for Empathy
Several things intersected for me during a week in September. David Brooks wrote an New York Times op-ed on the “Limits of Empathy,” I took my mother to see the “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus”...
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The Shift: Making Mongol Movies
Mongol Archer The first Westtown School World History Film Festival has come and gone. Two weeks before Thanksgiving my students were channeling Ken Burns — and serving as witting accomplices in my...
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Juggling Plates, Leading Change
Our Head of School once described his job as one of keeping lots of plates spinning; his round of meetings hopefully touched a project just at the moment that it needed a bit more attention or energy....
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SAT Subject Tests invite shallow learning
It’s that time again, time to cram and review for the SAT Subject Tests. I teach at a college prep school. Many of the more selective colleges and several state universities require students to submit...
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Encouraging Teachers to Teach Creativity
A few weeks ago fellow Voices blogger Shelley Wright wrote a provocative blog on flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy and beginning the learning experience with Creativity. As the person most directly responsible...
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Developing Our Students as Active Citizens
In a May post here at the Voices blog, I suggested that one of the things I thought colleges should be looking for from prospective students was civic engagement. Certainly, having students see...
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Election 2012: Help Me Engage My Students
This blog post is a bit different for me. I’m asking for input and suggestions for how to engage our students at Westtown School in West Chester PA in our political election process and have them learn...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation — Teaching US History in Six Weeks to 10...
Over the summer, Voices blogger Margaret Haviland taught her first (mostly) online high school course — a survey of US History in six and a half weeks! Margaret journaled about her experience at her...
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Our US History Student Film Festival
In mid-December, just before the holiday, 33 tenth grade students, three teachers, assorted parents, and four guest judges (an historian, a lawyer, and two communication specialists) gathered to watch...
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Student Creativity: the Importance of License and Limits
I was enjoying a cup of tea with a friend and colleague over our spring break. We were discussing a student who had chosen to hand in a short story rather than the assigned analytical essay. The...
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