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Blog entry posted January 11th, 2010 by Dale Worsley

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race,” exclaims Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In my last blog, I suggested we let the question, “What is school?” guide us through the next decade. Following my own suggestion, ready to define the nature of education at every pass, I sallied forth to encounter for the umpteenth time the...

Blog entry posted January 6th, 2010 by Dale Worsley

I ran out of space in my last post (last of the decade!) as I was turning to Neil Postman for perspective on the problem of questions that can’t be answered. His book The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School actually offers perspective on both questions that can and should be answered and those that can’t and shouldn’t. In the first category, he told the story of Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of a monumental two-volume study of the printing press as an agent of cultural change. After a speech, a member of her audience asked how she...

Blog entry posted October 15th, 2009 by Dale Worsley

In the ramblin’ spirit of Paragraph Six, I’m giving myself permission to postpone the post on pi yet again, and go further along the tangent of pedagogical belief. Call it a “dynamic digression” (a handy euphemism I picked up from the world of lit crit.) Sometimes stories demand to be told, and this is one of them, on the theme of belief.

Blog entry posted October 14th, 2009 by Victor Aluise

Over the past few decades, schools across the country have invested heavily in building their technology infrastructure, ranging from broadband connections and connected computer labs to 1:1 computing initiatives and interactive white boards in every classroom. But are our educators effectively leveraging these hefty technology investments to improve teaching and learning? As we travel from district to district, partnering with PreK-12 schools across the country, we are finding that many of our instructional leaders and classroom teachers are not...

Blog entry posted September 15th, 2009 by Bill McConnell

Last Saturday we at AUSSIE had the honor of being addressed by the New York City Chancellor of Education, Joel Klein, at the launch of our new school year.

Chancellor Klein spoke highly of our work and commended our commitment to student achievement and accountability. His personal, ongoing commitment to improving the quality of education for all students is driven by his...

Blog entry posted September 10th, 2009 by Daniel Storchan

A few weeks ago, I received a very nice email from an administrator who attended my "Building 21st Century Learning Communities" workshop on July 9th. The email read:

"Daniel, Yesterday's workshop was eye opening, exciting, wowing and indicative of the potential that can be accessed. During the 1st week in August, we are going to be in school preparing for...

Event posted by manningr

• Date: From Wed, 05/19/2010 - 9:00am (EDT) To Wed, 05/19/2010 - 12:00pm (EDT)
• Cost:
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• Location: One New York Plaza, 31st Floor, 1 Water Street, New York, NY, 10004, United States ; See map: Google Maps

Event posted by manningr

• Date: From Thu, 04/29/2010 - 9:00am (EDT) To Thu, 04/29/2010 - 3:00pm (EDT)
• Cost:
  $150.00
• Location: One New York Plaza, 31st Floor, 1 Water Street, New York, NY, 10004, United States ; See map: Google Maps