OTHER WRITINGS

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Principals Let Their Hair Down: "I Don't Know How To Do That."

Jul 20th, 2010

Recently I observed a group of high-powered principals vigorously engaged in a serious, district-wide improvement plan.

(Article appeared in Education Week, July 14, 2010)

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/07/14/36olson.h29.html?qs=principals+let+their+hair+down

 

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Burned In: Chapter from REFLECTIONS ON MAINTAINING THE FIRE TO TEACH

Feb 22nd, 2010

This is a chapter from the forthcoming book called BURNED IN:  REFLECTIONS ON MAINTAINING THE FIRE TO TEACH, edited by Jennifer and Luke Reynolds. (Book due out Fall 2010.)

The Reynolds are also editors of the recent book Dedicated to the People of Darfur, from Rutgers University Press.

Check out my contribution to BURNED IN below.

 

 

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Creating Unwounding Schools

Nov 28th, 2009

Following up on an interview about wounded learners (Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association, November 2009), in this article Kirsten Olson offers 10 practices that help create nurturing, challenging, "healing" schools for all learners. She says these practices are key to boosting achievement in underperforming schools and addressing learning disengagement. School wounding is not just wasteful, and a cultural and social wrong-it's bad practice.

 

 

http://www.tepsa.org/

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Book Review: The International Journal of Illich Studies

Nov 28th, 2009

"When I first assign Grace Llewllyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get A Real Life and Education, to my undergraduates in education, they are often stunned, shocked, and repelled by Llewellyn's message. Although most have just completed American high school, an experience they found intellectually draining, emotionally flattening, and at least a year and a half too long, they write in their first autobiographical essays, "Never in my entire life read have I read a book that said education could be bad for you." In class they shake their heads, "Some kids might learn without school, but this is definitely not for everybody."

 

Kirsten Olson reviews  the alternative schooling reader, Everywhere All the Time http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/everywhereallthetimeakpress (edited by Matt Hern) for The International Journal of Illich Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1

http://ivan-illich.org/journal/index.php/IJIS/issue/current

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Book Chapter: My Work Now

Jul 31st, 2009

"My Work Now," in Turning Points: 27 Visionaries In Education Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Jerry Mintz and Carlo Ricci, Albany, New York: Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2010

 

http://www.educationrevolution.org/turningpoints.html (TO ORDER)

 

 

 

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