Dana Lawit, our 2010 Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award Winner and a special education teacher at our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School, returns to the New York Times' education site SchoolBook.com with her latest article, this time on topic of classroom rules.
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The BBC calls our Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School an "IZone pioneer school" in their article on New York's iZone Project - or Innovation Zone - which is challenging state schools in New York City to rip up the rule book.
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The LaGuardia Community College's sustainability blog has covered our Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School's learning expedition on the Greenpoint Oil Spill. The article provides a comprehensive and accessible explanation of our curricular approach to learning - a good read and testament to the work happening at our newest school.
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Our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School is the lead education story today on MSNBC's TheGrio.com. The article juxtaposes the neighborhood's economic struggles and violent past with the school's positive culture- and community-building initiatives that lead to academic success.
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NYC Outward Bound has received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of non-profit organizations. Charity Navigator's mission is to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health, accountability and transparency of America's largest charities.
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Education Week has picked up NYC Outward Bound teacher Hilary Lustick's recent blog post in GothamSchools.org. In the post, Lustick discusses the Common Core standards and her application of them in her classroom through analysis of political campaign rhetoric. Lustick teaches English at our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
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Dana Lawit, our 2010 Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award Winner, is a contributing writer in the New York Times' inaugural "issue" of its new education site SchoolBook. Lawit is a fifth-year teacher at our Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School.
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Meg Riordan, NYC Outward Bound School Designer and our Regional Director of Instruction, has just been published in the summer issue of the Journal of Experiential Education. Her co-authored article, Wearing the Student Hat: Experiential Professional Development in Expeditionary Learning Schools, is available through the Association for Experiential Education. Riordan's recent book, Going to Scale with New School Designs: Reinventing High School, was co-authored with Joseph P. McDonald and Emily Klein and is available through Teachers College Press.
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Put together Newtonian physics with clinical psychology, sustainable materials and industry experts — and kids are going to have a blast on Scott Hendstrand’s learning expedition "The Physics of Playgrounds." Hendstrand is the 2011 Gaynor McCown Excellence in Teaching Award Winner, which is bestowed annually to one outstanding teacher in NYC Outward Bound's Expeditionary Learning school network.
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The unlikely and inspiring friendship of recent Validus Prep graduate Daminy Santiago and the school's assistant principal Jodie Ruck will be featured on StoryCorps. Read a teaser here in the Daily News.
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