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Howard Stribbell, Head of School There is an article making the rounds in social media suggesting that homework is actually having a detrimental affect on our children. The debate regarding homework has raged for years.  Researchers such as Alfie Kohn encourage us to Rethink Homework. Personally, I like the work…

  What makes a school good? How are parents to judge if their children are really learning and being challenged? Parents who aren't in our classrooms everyday are left to judge the program by the things that they see at home: Homework - how much homework is assigned each night and…

I read an interesting article recently by Maurice Elias, a Professor of Psychology and Director of Rutgers Social-Emotional Learning Lab, titled ‘Homework vs No Homework is the Wrong Question’. The tile caught my eye because it seems homework policies and practices are often a bone of contention and tend to…

This month’s PLC discussion topic/focus is based on Sharon Friesen’s ‘What did you do in school today?’ (2009). Principle 3 of this document is: assessment practices improve student learning and guide teaching. The traditional way to think of assessment is simply gathering information at the end of the teaching and…