I was recently asked to make a presentation to the Academy’s Board of Visitors on Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century. The focus of the presentation was to provide a context of how has the purpose of school changed, what skills, attributes and experiences do students need to be successful and how do we [...]
It really is a simple question, isn’t it? Are we ready? Are our schools, teachers, administrators truly ready to stop talking about teaching and learning in the 21st century and instead, start actually doing IT? I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently, and an email from a colleague prompted me to revisit [...]
I have spent some time recently thinking about how our schools look and feel very much like they did over a century ago. Our school began a major construction project last week intended to refurbish and renovate one of our major academic buildings. Kingsley Laboratories, built in 1897, is one of our oldest buildings and [...]