Dane's Education Blog

     One of the best—and least expensive—ways to maximize professional development opportunities at school is to have conference, workshop, ...

     I am attending the American Montessori Society  (AMS) Annual Conference where 3,000 Montessori educators have gathered in Back Bay Bos...

     Recently, faculty, staff, and parents were fortunate to have Dr. Ned Hallowell spend time at our school.  "Driven From Distraction...

     It was two years ago on March 19, 2008 that this blog took to the Internet with the post " Learning About Montessori ."  Oddl...

If you are teaching the size of small particles like molecules, atoms, and quarks OR on the other end, large things like planets, solar syst...

     Daniel Pink's newest book Drive has many exceptional ideas and philosophy. He makes a compelling argument for moving from a 20th C...

     I was first inspired when I read Jim Collins' book  How the Mighty Fall  and he talks about employees who look at their work as a r...

A few posts ago I offered  a link to a StoryCorps story  about a 16-year old father who raised his son.  The following week, StoryCorps pres...

     I love John Godfrey Saxe's version of  “The Blind Men and the Elephant” where six blind men are positioned at different locations ...

           As reported by our Head of Preschool to parents and faculty:  "We were fortunate to have New York University  Professor C...

Click on the picture to hear this beautiful 2 minute,  StoryCorps story .

     One of the best ways to become involved in professional development for yourself and for educators new to the profession is to have exp...

     After listening to Daniel Pink author of A Whole New Mind , I was inspired to take what he said and write an article right after I he...

There are department faculty meetings, and there are division faculty meetings, and there are school meetings for all employees.  Author Tho...

     The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a must-read for middle school students and teachers.  It is the first book in a trilogy by Coll...

     Recently while I was at the front doors of the School greeting students and parents at the beginning of school, I noticed a father with...

     Online resource from Apple: "iTunesU , part of the iTunes Store, is possibly the world’s greatest collection of free education...

When I walked into our school library during the annual book fair, I knew I would be listening to author Grace Chang read from her book Jin ...

With many years of greeting children as they walk into school and observing their interaction with adults, I have come to realize the signif...

When I was at an education conference in San Francisco this past weekend, the 1,000 participants sitting in the grand ballroom were introduc...

Reading Malcom Gladwell's newest best seller, What the Dog Saw you discover the book is a compilation of his New Yorker articles tha...

The Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal winners were announced, and the winners are When You Reach Me and The Lion and the Mouse .  Click ov...

     Aren't young adult and children's picture books great . . . for kids and adults.  The picture above is one of the walls in my...

     I can never be sensitive enough to those parents of 9- through 13-year old children.  It is such a difficult age for the children AND...

I first began seriously asking myself, "If and when will electronic books take over book-books?" when I bumped into the "Boo...

Here are some statistics to think about: K-12 online learning is a new field consisting of an estimated $300 million market, which is gro...

On December 10, 1997 I wrote "Getting a Read on Independent Schools" for Education Week where I made reference to books about i...

     As he made his way around the corner, Paul reached into his pocket for spare change to drop into the paper cup of the beckoning str...

I had the good fortune to listen to the very funny author Michael Buckley at our school's Holiday Book Fair.  Michael talked about his ...

The holiday season — no matter what faith — does bring families together, and as I read Wendy Mogel's  ( The Blessing of a Skinned Knee...