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Educator’s Notebook #180 (April 23, 2017)

    • New York Times
    • 04/18/17

    A thick institution is not one that people use instrumentally, to get a degree or to earn a salary. A thick institution becomes part of a person’s identity and engages the whole person: head, hands, heart and soul.”

    • Kappan
    • 04/01/17

    What skills do you need to be a successful adult? It turns out there are roughly 25, if you review the relevant literature. Which of these skills do schools regularly teach? Just three, as we found in a recent study… And that was in nine of the highest-rated secondary schools in Massachusetts.”

ADOLESCENCE

ASSESSMENT

ATHLETICS

CHARACTER

CREATIVITY

CURRICULUM

DIVERSITY/INCLUSION

HUMANITIES

LANGUAGE

LEADERSHIP

LEARNING SCIENCE

PEDAGOGY

READING/WRITING

STEM

TECH

WORKPLACE

Z-OTHER

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Peter Nilsson

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