John Palfrey, new Head of School at Phillips Academy and nephew of our own Rita Baragona, maintains a blog that might be interesting to the Blair faculty on a couple of levels. First, as we move forward in our search for a new Head and plan for the transition, Palfrey's experience could be instructive to us. Second, he shares the professional development themes and discussions that are going on at Andover this year. The two most recent posts discuss "connected learning" and Claude Steele's Whistling Vivaldi (which was assigned faculty reading). http://jpalfrey.andover.edu/
Thanks for posting this Ryan. For a shorter discussion of the ideas covered in Whistling Vivaldi, this article from the NYT's touches on many aspects of 'stereotype threat' and 'priming': http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html?_r=0
ReplyDeleteJohn's twitter feed is also great... lots of interesting thoughts about "connected learning" there as well, in addition to discussions of the work Palfrey did at Harvard. Zach Lehman also has an active twitter feed and a decent blog: http://whatsoeverthingsare.org/.
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