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SPRING 2012
Redefining the Good Life: Redefining Education


Redefining the Good Life Redefining Education
Robert Witt

The Solutionaries Education for a Better World
What is schooling for?
Zoe Weil

Changing the Story
Making Renewable Energy Central to Learning
Lise Goddard and Josh Hahn

Education, Democracy, and the Life Worth Living
Mark Kingwell

Schooling For Happiness
Bhutan’s Big Dream
Kent Bicknell

Take Care of Yourself, Take Care of Your School
A Conversation with Tony Schwartz
Stephen J. Valentine

An Experience of "Yes"
Independent schools begin to explore and exploit the power of design thinking
Peter Gow

Bridge the Divide
Turning Social Divisions into Opportunity
Holly Arida, Charles Shaw, and Carla Young

What Kids Can Do
Ronald A. Wolk

The Change Makers


Consider The Virtuous Cycle
A Blueprint for School Leadership
Tom Olverson and Cynthia Vives

The Great Uncomfortable
Religion in the Sectarian & Secular Independent School
Daniel R. Heischman

online feature

Leadership 2.0 and Beyond
The Role of a Head in a School’s Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies
Liz Duffy

A New Normal
Tom Lovett

The Ethical School
What Did He Say?
Paula Mirk

departments

independent perspective
Motivation
Patrick F. Bassett

editor's note
Editor's Note
Michael Brosnan

the teaching life
Living Out a School Motto
An Immersive Learning Experience in Kenya
Elizabeth Arnstein

spotlight on research
What Motivates Parents
Myra McGovern

about books
Happiness Is...
Richard Barbieri

independent school parent
The Long Run
Darnell Heywood

The Reporter

NAIS News

Quote/Unquote
NAIS joins Education Secretary in promoting public-private partnerships
The Inclusive School and Greening America’s Schools
NAIS taps new trustees
Mandarin offerings on the rise at NAIS-member schools
Managing privacy in the financial-aid office
Mark Mitchell
PoCC Community Mural
Bill Gates tops list of innovative pioneers at 2012 NAIS Annual Conference

School News

Cape Henry’s virtual — and real — voyage on the Nautilus
Waldorf Schools: powered by imagination, not computers

Programs

Through the lens of the Bronx: Fieldston’s City Semester
The Great American Teach Off taps social justice teacher
Students rescue endangered prairie at Fort Worth school
When your board builds the chicken coop

Honors

Porter-Gaud teacher wins international technology award
Meadowbrook’s LEGO city fuses robotics, music, and technology

Vantage Point

Priorities 101
Penny Evins