Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content

it's about learning

exploring the educational crossroads of our time

Main menu

  • home
    • about the blog
  • bo adams
    • bo’s bio & highlights
    • learning & leading profiles
  • plp
    • personal learning plan
    • professional learning
    • books & videos
  • #fsbl
  • synergy
  • iDiploma
  • brain food & pmp
    • brain food
    • pedagogical master planning

Tag Archives: grow days

CHANGEd: What if schools factored in experiment days like snow days? 60-60-60 #6

Posted on March 13, 2012 by boadams1
8

When scheduling, many schools factor in “snow days” – days that won’t be re-calendared for inclement weather cancellations. What if schools factored in experiment days like snow days? We could plan for radical pilots and seemingly outlandish learning designs to test various hypotheses. We could learn by doing and negate the argument, “We have too much to cover.” Call ’em…”grow days!”

CHANGEd: What if…60-60-60 Project Explained

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • More
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
Like Loading...
Posted in CHANGEd: What if...60-60-60 | Tagged CHANGEd: What if...60-60-60, experimentation, Experimenting, grow days, snow days | 8 Replies

Unknown's avatar

Follow via RSS

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,013 other subscribers

Bo also writes for:

5 Top Posts/Pages

  • Trailblazers- Student Driven EdMagazine
  • Traverse17 Conference - Brief Summary
  • Living in a Personal Case Study - Curiosity-based Learning
  • How's your heart? From being busy to just being.
  • Share the Well - A Thirst for Innovation

5 Most Recent Posts

  • Trailblazers- Student Driven EdMagazine
  • Traverse17 Conference – Brief Summary
  • Living in a Personal Case Study – Curiosity-based Learning
  • How’s your heart? From being busy to just being.
  • Share the Well – A Thirst for Innovation

Post Categories

Post Archives

Bo's Links

  • #MVLearns
  • Bo's Observation Journal
  • Bo's Diigo

Currently Reading

Bo's Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Bo’s Pinterest

Profile, Boards & Pins

Blog Stats

  • 169,044 hits

StatCounter

wordpress blog stats
View My Stats

Cluster Map

Locations of visitors to this page
Teach.com

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Tag Cloud

  • #MVIFI
  • #MVPSchool
  • 21c
  • 21stC
  • art
  • Assessment
  • blogging
  • brain-based
  • brightspots
  • CBL
  • change
  • CHANGEd: What if...60-60-60
  • collaboration
  • Creativity
  • curiosity
  • DBL
  • design
  • design thinking
  • EdJourney
  • effectiveness
  • empathy
  • FAAR
  • faculty
  • FSBL
  • future of schools
  • goals
  • grading
  • Grant Lichtman
  • growth mindset
  • innovation
  • Innovation Diploma
  • Innovators DNA
  • Integrated studies
  • Interdisciplinary
  • kaizen
  • leadership
  • learning
  • literacy
  • mindset
  • Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
  • MVPS
  • NAIS
  • numeracy
  • observation
  • observation journals
  • parents
  • PBL
  • pedagogical master planning
  • play
  • PLC
  • practice
  • Project-based learning
  • purpose
  • real-life
  • real-world
  • reflection
  • sabbatical
  • School 3.0
  • school change
  • schools of the future
  • Seth Godin
  • sharing
  • student voice
  • Synergy
  • Synergy8
  • Synergy 8
  • technology
  • TED
  • TEDx
  • The Falconer
  • Time
  • transdisciplinary education
  • twitter
  • Unboundary
  • writing
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • it's about learning
    • Join 336 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • it's about learning
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d