The following list provides a small sampling of what the Free Union community has been reading and considering. Discussions might take place at faculty meetings or occasional morning coffee with parents.
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Want more scientists? Turn grade schools into laboratories: Priya Natarajan
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Susan Engel on how curiosity is the engine that drives learning
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Maria McKenna's TEDx talk about joyful learning identifies the fundamental ideas behind elementary education at Free Union. Now faculty at the University of Notre Dame, Maria states: "I'm proud to say I got my start as a teacher at Free Union Country School."
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Share This with All the Schools, Please -- Glennon Doyle Melton's observation of a teacher who looks for the lost child in the mix and knows that kindness and bravey beat math and language arts in the growth of loving children.
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To the White Parents of My Black Son's Friends -- About race and courage, by Maralee Bradlee
- Progressive education and brain research and the improvement of educational practice. From the Calhoun School.
- What they're reading at Calhoun (on social justice, STEM, language arts, progressive education, more)
- Success Academy’s Radical Educational Experiment (Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.)