If you flip back through my early blog entries, you’ll find one about my six-year tenure as the teaching principal of the Pierce School in Bennington, NH. Although I left forty years ago, I’ve kept up with what’s happening at the school and in the surrounding Conval school district through our subscription to the local newspaper, The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript and our summer visits to the...
Back on Track It was odd being away from this blog last week, one of...
The other day I received this email from the Illinois Network of Charter Schools: The other day, I received this email from the Illinois Network of Charter Schools. Charter advocates,The charter school community needs you to act now! The U.S. Department of Education recently proposed new regulations that would create roadblocks to make the federally-funded Charter Schools Program almost...
I love reading the interviews the Paris Review has been publishing with noted writers for years, not the products of their labors but about how they go about their work. (It was a particular thrill to see an interview with my wonderful son-in-law, poet and translator Peter Cole appear last year in this pantheon of noted writers.) These valuable and entertaining documents have been collected in at...
My teaching career started as a collaborative effort. Dick and I had worked together at Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York and when we were invited to recreate a version of that program in a small school district in Vermont, our partnership continued. At first, the work involved overseeing a pullout and after school program, but when we accepted the challenge of assuming full...