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Where is the Justice?

By On October 28, 2012 · 5 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Service Learning

In the past few posts where I’ve explored my sense of what should be part of each school day I’ve looked at the value of hands-on, hearts-on learning, and of being outdoors, physical and creative. This time I want to look a little bit more at the content of the learning, […]

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Sweat, Sun & Imagination

By On September 30, 2012 · 3 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education, Outdoor Education

By the end of this past summer I felt about as fit and in shape as I ever have. After having spent most days on the road, cycling over 1500 km and making nearly twenty short films, through the course of my Green Riders project, I was in a totally different […]

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Making Time for Doing It

By On September 23, 2012 · 2 Comments · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Design, Experiential Education, Ideas in Education

Nearly every school year, somewhere early on, I end up doing some sort of informal survey, or engaging in a broad conversation with my students about different ways of learning. The learning strategies I touch on mostly draw from Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.

This year, just ankle-deep in our first unit of inquiry […]

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180 days. 6 hours each. September to June.

By On June 17, 2012 · 1 Comment · In COETAIL, Curriculum, Ideas in Education, Literacy

180 days. 6 hours each. September to June.
That’s the way it was when I was growing up in Toronto. That’s the way it is for my students growing up in Yokohama.

Each year when we receive our weekly schedules at YIS, I stare at it dumbfounded. How the heck am I supposed to […]

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