Monday, December 13, 2010

Re: Brainstorming the Development of an Online Progressive School

Steve,

Exceptionally well stated! The vision is tantalizing and exciting but
hard to bring into focus. Please keep sharing if you have other ideas.

Thanks,

Fred

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Steve Taffee <staffee@castilleja.org> wrot=
e:
> Fred -
>
> For me, the key to the type of school I imagine that you are imagining is
> not to create courses that are digital-analogs (now there's a term!) of
> traditional courses, especially AP level courses and other artificially
> constrained subject areas.
>
> Rather, I think the challenge of a progressive online school is to imagin=
e a
> progressive curriculum in an online or blended setting. This suggests thi=
ngs
> such as cross-disciplinary, project-based, continuous progress, open
> assessment, and other attributes.
>
> s
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> Steve Taffee =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 | Director of Strategic Projects
> Castilleja School =A0 =A0 =A0| staffee@castilleja.org

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