EdVisions Off Campus School http://bit.ly/8XhbVv :BTW, the EdVisions
schools are doing some really interesting work with reinventing the school
space. The video on this page, which I've referenced before, gives some idea
of their approach. http://www.edvisions.com/custom/SplashPage.asp
The Jefferson County open school, lovingly described in Rick Posner's Lives
of Passion, School of Hope (http://rickposner.com/) uses extended trips as a
central element of their pedagogy.
Fred
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Peter Gow <pgow@bcdschool.org> wrote:
> On traveling classrooms:
>
> 1) This has been the way of learning at sea for centuries, and it's a good
> one.
>
> 2) See what remains to be learned of the late lamented Shackleton Schools,
> a base-campus-plus-travel secondary model that had some amazing features
> along with fatal economic sustainability flaws. I was ready to drop
> everything and sign up, not so many years back.
>
> Fun thread, this--Peter Gow
>
> from my iPhone
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Sarah Hanawald <shanawald@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting you mention this--I have *The Majic
> > Bus<
> http://www.amazon.com/Majic-Bus-American-Odyssey/dp/1560254963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283474989&sr=8-1
> >:
> > An American Odyssey* by Douglas Brinkley ready to go to the beach with me
> > this weekend. From *Publisher's Weekly*: Six weeks on the road with an
> > experimental college history class which crisscrossed the country on a
> > sleeper bus.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to the reading!
> >
> > Sarah Hanawald
> > Cannon School
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:24 PM, William New <wnew@novent.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Bassett, Patrick wrote:
> >>
> >>> a box with movable parts (chairs, desks, manipulatives, technology,
> etc.)
> >>
> >> Rather than have the inside parts move around inside a fixed box,
> perhaps
> >> we should put the classroom inside a big bus or railroad car. That way
> the
> >> inside parts stay the same and the outside moves as the bus/train
> travels
> >> around seeing different scenery, different cities, different regions.
> >>
> >> I am reminded of the sea captain's family who joined him on voyages.
> Mom
> >> taught class on the deck, and every day there was a different outside
> world,
> >> traveling from port to port, country to country, hearing different
> languages
> >> and seeing different peoples.
> >>
> >> These kids (like many other children of American expatriates) became
> Third
> >> Culture Kids (TCK/3CK) with substantial multi-dimensional advantages
> over
> >> stay-at-home kids.
> >>
> >> We might think about starting a school in a bus or a train or a ship --
> and
> >> thereby move the outside box instead of the inside parts.
> >>
> >> === Bill
> >>
> >>
> >> William New
> >> Trustee
> >> Putney School
> >> Putney, VT 05346
> >>
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Fred Bartels
Dir. of Info. Tech.
Rye Country Day School
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