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This is Your Brain on Test Scores

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 at 9:37 am

There are two seemingly unrelated columns in today’s Opinion page of the New York Times that provide a crisp summary of where we stand in our current thinking about school reform — and where we need to go.

Categories: Assessment, Learning

Tags: balanced scorecard, brain, charter schools, david eagleman, new york city, New York Times, test scores

Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 12:40 pm

It was fifteen years ago, but I still remember the first time I saw Blue Man Group. Watching those bald blue aliens discover how to eat a Twinkie, or investigate the queasy vibrations of a giant Jello cake, or climb the walls of the theater to learn more about the people who were sitting there – well, anyone who’s seen the show knows there’s nothing quite like it.

Since that time, Blue Man Group has become an international phenomenon, and an unlikely aesthetic portal through which to vicariously experience the wonders of inquiry, discovery and mischief. And now, those same core ingredients are at the heart of a remarkable new school in New York City – a school I got to visit and see through the eyes of two of its founders, “Blue Man” Matt Goldman and his wife, Renee Rolleri.

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Categories: Assessment, Learning, Organizational Change, Starting a School

Tags: Blue Man Group, education reform, Learning, metacognition, new york city, transformational change, transformational schools

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