Andrew J. Rotherman analyzes “21st century skills” and confronts the perennial conflict between content-oriented and skills-oriented education and comes to the conclusion–with which I agree whole-heartedly–that this discussion presents a false choice. Rotherman correctly contends that whether to focus more on how to learn rather than what to learn has been debated since the days [...]
I led the first day of our two-day professional development here at XHIS. Our current focus is adapting our base American curriculum into the MYP framework. (We’re already well on the way with the PYP.) Our task was to take our current curriculum documents and to transform them into a system more amenable to the [...]
Here is a list of accomplishments at my current school: Increased enrollment by 50% three years in a row Brought the school through the application process to WASC accreditation candidacy Had our initial International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program application accepted has now scheduled our initial visit Our first two graduates were accepted to the University [...]
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