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Thoughts About Life from This Year’s Commencement Speaker

  • June 13, 2012

This year’s Commencement speaker was Dr. Thomas Hellie, President of Linfield College.  It was a great speech.  He gave our graduates four main pieces of advice, with good examples and Shakespearian references: 1) Find a…

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Mark Siegel
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We Don’t Need School Reform, We Need School Transformation

  • June 3, 2012

We Don’t Need School Reform, We Need School Transformation   I just read a great article about a “cutting-edge education experiment at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School” in Maine, that “could become the norm in Maine…

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Mark Siegel
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I was on Oregon Public Broadcasting this morning.

  • February 28, 2012
Dr. Mark Siegel Delphian School

As noted in an earlier blog, I am the volunteer executive director of the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools.   This morning, I was on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud on a forty-five minute segment…

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Mark Siegel
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New Report says “Shift Away from ‘Seat Time’ on Display in States”

  • February 20, 2012

From Education Week:  “Thirty-six states have established policies that give districts and schools some degree of ability to award credits to students based on mastery of a subject, rather than “seat time,” a new report…

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Mark Siegel
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Headline – N.H. Schools Embrace Competency-Based Learning

  • February 18, 2012

This just in – Education Week Headline – N.H. Schools Embrace Competency-Based Learning You can read all about it here.  The article says this is “one of the most aggressive statewide efforts in the country…

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Mark Siegel
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Private School News on Oregon Public Radio

  • February 9, 2012
Educating for the Future

When I’m not working hard as Delphian’s Assistant Headmaster, I head up the Oregon Federation of Independent Schools.  I’ve been working with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) radio on a news story about the condition of…

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Lauren Anderson
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More Good News – Educational Models Based on Proficiency, Personalization, and Individual Growth

  • September 1, 2011

Oregon State Superintendent of Schools, Susan Castillo, just sent out a report about recent statewide test results.  In her cover letter she wrote, “Education in Oregon, and around the country, has changed dramatically in the…

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Lauren Anderson
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Replacing Seat Time with Competency – Now That’s a Good Idea!

  • August 3, 2011

In a recent  blog, I mentioned two articles arriving in the same newsletter.  Today I’ll take up the second article “Replace ‘seat time’ with competency, reports says”.   It must be apparent by now, I…

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Lauren Anderson
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A Longer School Day, A Longer School Year – What a Timely Idea

  • August 2, 2011

Just read an article claiming that the King School in Portland now has 183 school days, the most school days in an Oregon school, thanks to a federal grant. Parents of students attending KNOVA Learning…

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Lauren Anderson
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Ending the Tyranny of the Lecture

  • July 29, 2011

Ending the Tyranny of the Lecture Today I read two articles in the same email newsletter.  They were “hot”!  In this blog, I’ll discuss the first article – Ending the ‘tyranny of the lecture’. It…

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