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Month: February 2017

Island Bay School

Today I had the pleasure of visiting Island Bay School, an inquiry-based school in a suburb of Wellington, NZ. Thank you Ximena and Amy for hosting me so warmly! A typical school day at Island Bay provides clear models of engaged learning. Doing school in this context means that students were active and involved, spread out in different […]Read Post ›

We’re Not in Philly Anymore…

Thanks to the Fulbright Distinguished Award for Teachers my family has relocated to Wellington, New Zealand for the next four months. This is a surreal time to be out of the US. At the same time that daily developments in the States mock the idea of democratic process and #Resistance continues to grow, I have […]Read Post ›

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