MicroSociety is a program that we plan to adopt at the Whole Life Charter School once we're open because of its educational power and because incorporating MicroSociety into the academic life of our students will help prepare our 4th through 8th graders for the rigors of the real-world internship component of our upper school curriculum. [...]
Starting a charter school requires great persistence. Our team would have given up on this process years ago were it not for the hopeful parents who remind us almost daily about their need for our school.
Let's be honest. Despite opinions to the contrary, brain based research, incredible technological advances and an entirely new economy, there is very little that has changed in the practice of teaching in the last fifty years. Children still go to school between 6.5 and 7 hours each day. If they are in a middle or [...]
There have been many articles published on education websites and blogs detailing the Pennsylvania General Assembly's consideration of Senate Bill 904 and its twin House Bill 1384. One such article was published recently in the Philadelphia Public School's website, The Notebook. The article, actually written by the Pennsylvania Education Law Center, points out several deficiencies [...]