Read this article from Smithsonian about Why Finland's Schools Are So Successful. It sounds an awful lot like Parker!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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I find delight each day in the things that happen at Robert C. Parker School. I hope to share a little of the fun!
About Me
- Meg
- I was Head of Robert C. Parker School from July 2003 to June 2017. I love walking the halls at school and watching the kaleidoscope of activities and the happiness and fun of the students and teachers. Parker's woods and meadows bring beauty into our lives each day. It is a great community - everyone pulling together to make a difference for children!
Robert C. Parker School Mission
Robert C. Parker School engages each student in a thoughtful and challenging learning process that inspires curiosity and a passion to achieve, nurtures confidence and community, and cultivates purposeful action.
Core Values:
Emotional Security
Intellectual Vibrancy
Ethical Awareness
Social Responsibility
Core Values:
Emotional Security
Intellectual Vibrancy
Ethical Awareness
Social Responsibility
Parker Blogs and Websites
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21st C skills
3D printer
ADHD
adventure
advocacy
alumni
assessment
Austin's Butterfly
Bilingual education
blocks
breathing
Buddy's
character
collaboration
Community
community service
compassion
computing
confidence
creativity
critical thinking
critique
deep learning
design thinking
Ethics
Expeditionary Learning
friendship
Gender and sexual identity
giving
global perspective
Hamilton
hands-on science
happiness
how interest drives learning
innovation
intellectual risk-taking
intelligence
internal motivation
international exchange
intrinsic motivation
learning in nature
learning outdoors
maker spaces
Mastery
math
mindfulness
motivation
music
Ned Hallowell
neuroscience
outdoor classroom
passion
peace
Peace Assembly
Planet Parker
play
positive peer pressure
project-based learning
purposeful action
questioning
Read Across America Day
reading
resilience
robotics
Scratch
Shakespeare
social-emotional learning
standardized testing
STEAM
STEM
student presentations
student-led conferences
success
technology
the adolescent brain
the power of play in learning
the teen brain
winter sports
writing
Robert C. Parker School Motto
In caring for our world, our community, and ourselves, we reach out to others with kindness, speak and act with respect, strive for understanding of differences, and share our time, our talents, and our energy.
Other Links
- Marghanita
- Connecting Kids to the Wonder of the Outdoors
- 21k12
- National Wildlife Federation
- Blog on technology tools for classrooms
- NY State Association of Independent Schools
- Progressive Education
- Dane's Education Blog
- Project Learning Tree
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
- One: The Campaign to Make Poverty History
- Children and Nature Network
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