On April 6, the Mary Lyon Pilot High School in Brighton, MA welcomed the Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership (PSi) into its community to experience its unique full inclusion model, which accommodates 14 general education students and 6 students with emotional impairments in each classroom.
Read MoreIn March, Demarkes Jackson, a student at Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), traveled to Austin, TX to participate in a panel titled, “No, I Won’t ‘See You at McDonalds’ & Other Stories” at SXSW EDU, a conference and festival that “cultivates and empowers a community of engaged stakeholders to advance teaching and learning.” Demarkes was joined by leaders from around the country who are designing and launching alternative high schools for students who are off track for graduation.
Read MoreOn Saturday, March 10, 2018, the Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) hosted the Creative Learning for Equity School Design Colloquium, a day-long inquiry into school design using the arts, storytelling, and design thinking as ways of learning, collaborating, and addressing challenges among educators committed to creating equitable and innovative schools.
Read MoreAs a founding board member of Conservatory Lab Charter School and now member of the board of the Center for Artistry and Scholarship, I’m honored to share some thoughts about the founder of El Sistema, Maestro José Antonio Abreu, on the occasion of his death on March 24, 2018.
Read MoreRead about the Perrone-Sizer Institute's (PSi) Mid-Year Capstone Consultancy Day at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Read MoreWatch Josue Gonzalez, Director of El Sistema at Conservatory Lab, perform at Puelche Frutillar
Read MoreThe Perrone-Sizer Institute for Creative Leadership (PSi) is the Center for Artistry and Scholarship’s year-long certificate program for emerging leaders seeking to weave education, creative, and community-based resources to reshape schools, be champions for equity, and transform the lives of youth and families.
Read MoreLast year, I founded The Cambridge Educators Design Lab in partnership with the Cambridge Public Schools and the Center for Artistry and Scholarship. The goal of the Design Lab is to impact learning by emphasizing human-centered design to address existing challenges in education and beyond.
Read MoreIn addition to analyzing why this particular assumption is damaging to students, this chapter suggests a solution that would also help to heal the inequities of our educational system overall – inequities that are thoroughly examined throughout the entire book.
Read MoreEveryone can go to college, but does everyone want to? When I was in high school, my school partnered with a career and technical school called BOCES. This partnership allowed students to spend half of the day at our high school and the other half at BOCES completing coursework and training in a specified field.
Read MoreThe Center for Artistry and Scholarship and the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs invite music educators to the Music Education and Special Needs Study Group.
Read MoreLinda Nathan starts “Just Work Harder,” the third chapter of When Grit Isn’t Enough, by observing, “We tell students that if they work harder, they will succeed.” We sure do - and it’s not only educators who say this. In many homes, including mine, parents perpetuate this message. I certainly did when it came to my oldest son, who is now a senior in high school.
Read MoreChapter two of When Grit Isn't Enough explores the difficult realization that race does matter when it comes to going to college. This chapter reinforced for me how important the arts are. The arts have the ability to dismantle our preconceived notions of others, and they serve as a public forum for discussing challenging topics.
Read MoreThe Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) is delighted to share the news that we have selected the first cohort of the Innovative School Design Incubator.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, October 17, Beacon Press published Center for Artistry and Scholarship (CAS) executive director Linda Nathan’s new book, When Grit Isn’t Enough: A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College-for-All Promise.
Read MoreAlec Resnick advocates for “substantial statewide funding to support long-term, in-district research and development” that gives innovators the time it takes to imagine, design, implement, and measure the impact of ambitions initiatives
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