Parents ‘n Schools

People worry about “kids today”.
I don’t, so much.
I’m concerned more about the parents.
Kids have it good. When I was a kid, we’d be handed lawn darts and told “go play”. In hindsight, that does not seem wise.
Bike helmets hadn’t been invented yet that we were made aware of. Seatbelts were tucked away under […]

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I’ve referenced TED.com many times here at good ol’ PnS, and I came across this description of its purpose. Seems like a good idea to me.
The goal of the foundation is to foster the spread of great ideas. It aims to provide a platform for the world’s smartest thinkers, greatest visionaries and most-inspiring […]

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(GLO — Feb/10 — I continue to play at editting these posts into something more “book-like”… but it is a process that gets interrupted often. My mental model of such an effort is Seth Godin’s “Small is the New Big”… an excellent book capturing his many essays from his blog. My image of the model […]

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Operations began at good ol’ Parents ‘n Schools (by that I mean I pressed “publish” for the first time) back in the spring of last year (’08), and over the following nine-and-a-half months of 2008 this site recorded about 14,500 visitors and about 32,000 page views. We were pleased (by “we”, of course, well… you […]

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Today is my kids’ last day of school for another year, and I am reminded to write a thank-you to the loyal (and no doubt deeply disturbed) readers of good ol’ PnS.
Web stats indicate that current daily readership is QUADRUPLE what it was this time last year. Let’s not be so petty as to discuss […]

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Obama should look to Portugal on how to fix schools
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(GLO — an excellent essay by the author of “Grown Up Digital” on the impact on the classroom and on the learning experience in Portugal upon the determined application of technology.)

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One of my favourite authors and idea-meisters, Seth Godin, created a website called Squidoo that is a great place to start your writing and sharing online.
If you’ve got thoughts (on schooling, for example) that you want to share or just begin to capture, one day or one week at a time, Squidoo is a fine […]

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(GLO — April 2009 — This has always been one of my favourite analogies, and sprung to my mind early on in my experience with “parent involvement”. Schooling is a journey, and parents have a role to play on that journey. But the role they mostly play…)
On the freeways and roads of major cities, […]

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The logistics of schooling are daunting. Transportation. Accommodation. Labour. Scheduling. Contracts. Funding.
600,000 children in Alberta. 6,000,000 across Canada. 60,000,000 in the U.S. On the move every schoolday. Needing shelter. Needing teachers. Needing to fit into calendars and statutory holidays and labour contracts and legislated terms.
In Alberta this coming fall (and particularly in Calgary) the “World […]

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In sitting down recently to explore the possibility of maybe, if fate allows, one day, perhaps, depending on the stars and their alignment, in some fashion… turn these writings into a book, I was led to ponder who such a book might be “written for”.
What I came up with was:
“The parent with some exposure to […]

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