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The Only Requirement: Read

I hate summer reading. Why? Because I really want kids to read in the summer. A number of years ago, … Continue reading The Only Requirement: Read

Fostering Grit in Today’s Students, Classrooms and Schools

Head of School Peter Hutton’s latest column in Huffington Post’s Education Section takes a closer look at what grit looks … Continue reading Fostering Grit in Today’s Students, Classrooms and Schools

This morning we held a special All School Assembly to address the horrific incidents at the marathon yesterday afternoon. Immediately … Continue reading Beaver for Boston: words from Peter Hutton

Innovating K-12 Education for the New Economy “If there’s one subject nearly every American has considered of late, it’s our … Continue reading Hear from Head of School Peter Hutton

As many of you know I am passionate about the need for education to pay attention to the context in … Continue reading Embracing a contextualized education

Tuesday’s Globe announced with great fanfare that textbook publishers had contracted with Apple to load texts on the iPad. The … Continue reading Textbook to iPad is Not Innovation in Education

As I was catching up on a few blogs that I follow, I found this particular post from EDTECH on … Continue reading There is No Magic Bullet

In recent years there has been increasing talk about stress and high school students (Race to Nowhere is still a … Continue reading Stress at Beaver

A few weeks ago I traveled to San Francisco to take in 2 days of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. TechCrunch … Continue reading Beaver at TechCrunch Disrupt