UPPER DARBY, PA – Carole Peterson, the reading specialist at Stonehurst Hills Elementary School, is organizing a book discussion group with 45 of her fellow teachers. The teachers will meet over the course of several weeks to discuss the principles of The Art of Learning and present ideas in a collaborative setting on how to [...]
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Union Ridge School
Categories: programs, schoolsHARWOOD HEIGHTS, IL The principal of this early childhood through 8th-grade school, Michael Maguire, supports an important aspect of The Art of Learning Project’s core mission, namely, that students and teachers should not be programmed to believe that test scores define the ability to teach and learn. Michael is placing the book on his staff’s [...]
Meyer School, Skokie School District 73.5
Categories: programs, schoolsSKOKIE, IL. Alison Gordon, a Director of Student Services working with Pre-K through 8th-grade students, is using The Art of Learning in book study groups with the goal of cultivating in educator and administrator colleagues a “new awareness, sensitivity, and skill set.” These participants are considering the implications for daily instruction and the satisfaction of [...]
Cynthia Mann Elementary School
Categories: programs, schoolsBOISE, ID Bob Bishop, a teacher for the gifted at this elementary school, takes a brain related approach to teaching. He is working with 5th- and 6th-grade students on The Art of Learning and, in the spirit of turning the kids into their own teachers, has encouraged them to study the material deeply and consider [...]
The Lang School
Categories: programs, schoolsNEW YORK, NY. Set to open in 2010, Lang is a progressive, independent elementary school in New York City for high-potential and gifted children with ADHD, language-based learning differences, anxiety, and sensory processing challenges. Josh Waitzkin is working closely with the school’s consultants and teachers to pilot educational strategies based on The Art of Learning [...]
PS 47: The John Randolph School
Categories: programs, schoolsBRONX, NEW YORK. Larry Spitzer, a social studies; English; and chess club leader at this Title 1 elementary school, will be staging a reception for the 25 5th-grade members of his chess club and their parents. He will present The Art of Learning principles to them, do a walk-through of the live The Art of [...]
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