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Commitments and Community

Commitments and Community

Amanda Pogany, Head of School at Luria Academy of Brooklyn, began a journey to create an environment of unconditional respect among students, parents and other schools, applying design thinking in a year-long process that resulted in ‘Four Commitments,’ a framework for “how we communicate and how we function in relationship with one another in our school community.” They came up with four commitments: I will be Kind * I will be Strong * I will be Curious * I will Contribute

Transforming Professional Development for Teachers in an Online World

Transforming Professional Development for Teachers in an Online World

This past spring, PoP teachers demonstrated that partnership learning could indeed transfer online, deepening learning and relationships via Zoom in place of face-to-face classroom dynamics. PoP therefore turned to creating the conditions and tools for social interaction, relationship building, and rich meaning-making in an online context.