by Whitney | Jan 27, 2014 | education, explanations
This past weekend at Educon 2.6, Kevin Jarrett and I hosted a session entitled “How Unions Can help Foster Education Reform”. This was prompted by a question I have had for a long time, which is whether the public view of unions aligns teachers more with...
by Whitney | Jan 29, 2013 | education
I attended my favorite conference, Educon, this past weekend. There was an interesting set of sessions talking about design thinking in schools, and how we could re-imagine the way schools and classrooms are designed, so that they would promote the skills we say we...
by Whitney | Jan 30, 2012 | community, economics, education, personal
This past weekend, I attended another fantastic Educon, held annually at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. Education folks- Administrators, Ed Tech people, teachers, people from public and private schools, authors, publishers, parents, and even...
by Whitney | Jan 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
At Educon this past weekend, I had many amazing conversations with educators, people interested in education reform, wild-eyed evangelists and more. But one of the most telling moments was when Gary Stager asked, “When did idealism become a negative adjective? ...
by Whitney | Jan 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Educon 2.0 is an education unconference being held in Philadelphia this weekend, at the Science Leadership Academy (SLA). SLA is a progressive, public, magnet school for highschool students, and everything we think about high school has been re- engineered. Classes...
