goodmorningteachera:

Students don’t like taking them, teachers don’t like giving them.
I prefer qualitative assessment myself.

Here are more ways. 

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adventuresinlearning:

Here is my list so far

• Maria Montessori
• Helen Parkhurst.
• Deborah  Meier
• Vivian Gussin Paley
• Jill Ostrow
• Maxine Greene
• Eleanor Ruth Duckworth
• Adora Svitak
• Lisa Delpit
• Linda Darling-Hammond
• Ellen Key
• Sue Palmer
• Caroline Pratt (founder of City and Country School)
• Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
• bell hooks
• Diane Levin 
• Kirsten Olson
• Nel Noddings
• Zoe Weil
• Mary Wollstonecraft 
• Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
• Sylvia Ashton-Warner
• Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
• Rebeca Wild
• Joan Almon
• Vea Vecchi
• Olivia Gude
• Diane Ravitch
• Gayle Moller and Marilyn Katzenmeyer
• Jean Anyon
• Annetee Lareau
• Mary Pipher
• Margaret Wheatley
• Michelle Fine
• Lisa Michelle Nielsen
• Rachael Kessler
• Maricela Oliva
• Catherine Marshall
• Jane Roland-Martin
• Susan Ohanians

Click through to add your own favorites or add someone we missed. Still looking for bloggers to write short essays/spotlights on any of the Women above!

Educating the Whole Child

In the ethic of care model, the aim of education is centered around happiness. Incorporating this component into education involves not only helping our students understand the components of happiness by allowing teachers and students to interact as a whole community ^[7] In regard to the education of the whole child, Noddings (2005) stated that, “We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their failure to produce 100 percent proficiency, or demanding that teachers be knowledgeable in the subjects they teach. Instead, we must allow teachers and students to interact as whole persons, and we must develop policies that treat the school as a whole community.”

(Source: adventuresinlearning)

On December 19th I drove up to Ashfield, Massachusetts to participate in Mary Leue’s 90th birthday celebration. Mary is the founder of Albany’s Free School. She started it in 1969, partly for her own children. At the celebration many people thanked Mary for all that she has done for them, including her own children, now with children and even grandchildren of their own. Many former staff members of the school showed up, as well as many people local to the area where she lives now, on family homestead land between the families of two of her sons. Mary is still very active in the community. One local person thanked Mary for being the “grandmother figure”-mentor of their group for the past ten years.

 Mary has written many articles, published many magazines and books and continues to do so. She also wrote one of the articles in our new book, Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories

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adventuresinlearning:

Active Conversations

• Women Educators and Philosophers: A Crowdsourced Celebration
• Homework: Help or Hassle?
• My Inner Pollyanna’s Ed Reform Blue Sky
• Educating and being educated.
• The Definition of Education
• What Should We Cut?
• Caution: Work in Progress
• The Finland Phenomenon - a film about schools
• Empowering Self-Directed Learners
• Let’s Admit It - Education is Not the Most Important Thing in Life