Where do social action, art, music, technology, media, pop culture, and most importantly, student needs intersect?
In my post for Leadership Day 2010 , I wrote about the McTighe ‘Schooling by Design’ model, in which programs, practices, hiring of staff and allocation of resources all rest on the foundation of the mission statement (what we stand for) and learning principles (what we believe about learning.) Our school has a mission statement and, as a PYP school, we have some firm, shared beliefs about how children learn. But, till now, our learning principles were not articulated in a clear, accessible way. Does everyone...