NPR stations across the country aired American Public Media’s radio documentary series, Beyond the Blackboard, which explores Outward Bound’s history and its influence in education today, particularly through Expeditionary Learning, our partner in teaching.
Principal Brady Smith of our James Baldwin School discusses the practices his staff use to insure all students are safe without resorting to the common NYC public school practice of scanning. These approaches include active peer mediation, regular community and trust-building activities, and suspension-diversion practices.