Apr 29, 20215 min read
A Delicate Dance with Data
Data can be incredibly useful. It’s helped us track COVID, create vaccines, and gauge our safety as vaccination rates rise. It can help...
Mar 17, 20212 min read
Five Tips for a Hybrid Spring
Spring has sprung, and it’s not just daffodils that are blooming. At 100 East End, cameras have popped up in every classroom, and newly...
Feb 22, 20214 min read
Cultivating Collaboration
There’s group work and then there’s collaboration. Group work is the distribution of a task to more than one set of hands. Think ants...
Jan 10, 20214 min read
Resolution 2021: More Play!
If gratitude is the mother of all virtues, perhaps play is the mother of all cognitive processes. Play frees us from restrictions that...
Dec 2, 20204 min read
Combating Crisis with Community
Prior to 2020, our students thrived despite turmoil: Superstorm Sandy, the Baltimore riots, mass shootings in Las Vegas and Florida. They...
Nov 10, 20204 min read
Engagement = Audience
Imagine you’re 15. You’ve been at home for eight months. You’ve got a budding romance that absorbs you. When you’re daydreaming, your...
Nov 1, 20203 min read
Decoding Discrimination
As we rely more and more on digital material and virtual interactions, how can we help our students (and ourselves) be more critical of...