Category: Essay

Essay

Fighting Fires With Hope: The First Virtue for 2021-2022

August 2021

by Ross Peters, Vice President of School Strategy, EXPLO Elevate I felt as if I was on the receiving end of 911 calls. Given the tone of the callers, one might have thought the intruders…

Essay Issue Brief

Reimagining Assessment: Where is the Story?

June 2021

by Gary Chapin Assessments tell a story. What’s the story, and, more importantly, where is the story? The answers to those questions tell you a lot about the values and priorities of our education system…

Essay

Creating the Space for Equity

May 2021

by Indu Chugani Singh For the last eight years, I’ve been working with colleagues at the Penn Graduate School of Education teaching a course for new teachers called “Effective Learning Environments.” The course lives in…

Essay

Making the Hidden Visible: The Lived Experience of DEIJ Practitioners in Independent Schools

May 2021

By Sudipti Kumar On May 4th, EXPLO Elevate released our latest research report. The report, Making the Hidden Visible: The Lived Experience of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) Practitioner at Independent Schools, can…

Essay

What We Can Now Do: Permissions

April 2021

By Ross Peters, Vice President of School Strategy Recently, it has been hitting me all the time. An idea that had no articulated space in my mind several months ago is now forming…

Essay Interview

Future-Ready: A Conversation with Ted Dintersmith, Part III

April 2021

Preparing Students to Thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution By Mark Greenlaw On March 8, 2021, I had the opportunity to interview Ted Dintersmith, author of What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers…

Essay Interview

Future-Ready: A Conversation with Ted Dintersmith, Part II

April 2021

Essay Interview

In Conversation with Okorie Johnson

April 2021

How can a cellist make something foreign feel sacred enough to soothe the soul? Okorie Johnson is an American cellist-songwriter who performs under the moniker OkCello. His artistry integrates cello performance, live-sound-looping, improvisation, and storytelling…

Essay Interview

Future-Ready: A Conversation with Ted Dintersmith, Part I

April 2021

Essay Interview

In Conversation with Angeline Lillard

March 2021

Why now (and what’s next) for Montessori? Dr. Angelline Lillard is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. In her best-selling book Montessori: The Science behind the Genius as well as numerous research…