Julia Steiny: Thanks to My Sons, Who Got Me Involved in Schools
By Julia Steiny Per tradition, this year at Thanksgiving dinner we’ll go around the table and say what we’re grateful for this year. Likely many families do this, driven by the mom or whoever is feeling under-appreciated, or wanting to call out the brats for being spoiled. Giving thanks is a fabulous habit. It’s as […]
Julia Steiny: A Small Gesture Toward Spreading Higher Ed Wealth
By Julia Steiny Consider for a moment that almost 90 colleges and universities have endowments of a billion – that’s with a “B” — dollars or more. At 5% interest, a billion earns $ 50 million a year. Harvard, of course, is the big winner at nearly $ 37 billion, an amount so large that others […]
Julia Steiny: Students Curb Classroom Misbehavior with ‘Shirt of Shame’
By Julia Steiny At the beginning of this school year, chemistry teacher Brandon Haggerty facilitated a negotiation among his “Crew” students to agree on group norms for themselves. Haggerty’s school, the Greene Charter School in rural, leafy Exeter, RI, is an Expeditionary Learning school where what would otherwise be an advisory program group are “Crews.” […]