ROCKFORD, IL – Erik Czerwin, an English Language Arts teacher and chess coach at Guilford High School, is using The Art of Learning in a book club with the students on his chess team. As the program progresses, he plans to have the students who have already read the book and experienced the “lit circle” …
Tag: Illinois
Four Winds Waldorf School
WARRENVILLE, IL- The Four Winds Waldorf School strives to provide a holistic education to students through a balance of academic and non-academic disciplines. Math teacher Natalia Lukina intends to use The Art of Learning to help uncover her students’ true potential and motivate them on their path of self-directed learning and exploration. She says, “I …
Union Ridge School
HARWOOD 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
SKOKIE, 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 …
National Association for Gifted Children
WASHINGTON DC – There are an estimated 3,000,000 gifted children in the U.S. The 8,000+ members of the NAGC work on behalf of these students. We donated books to the attendees of their 2008 national convention and Josh was the featured interview article in the association’s back-to-school issue of Teaching for High Potential . We …