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Signo Uddenberg
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Learning From The 'New Home School'
Parents are going crazy with kids at home. But maybe a Compassionate Leave Policy could reframe the experience to something more intentional and financially supported. And maybe parents getting active in their kids' education isn't a bad thing. More from the Atlantic article here. Image: From Getty images via the Atlantic article #learning #learningenvironments #COVID
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Signo Uddenberg
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Pioneering Schools without Campuses: Let the Cities Speak
A few years back, MKThink connected with the founding group of educators at the Minerva School (established 2012). With the (education) world shifted from its traditional axis, we are reflecting on that model and wondering how today these lessons may apply. Minerva's model is an international university without walls. Students learn from where they are, anywhere, in campuses they define and are able to be located around the world. The potential is to exchange the capital ex
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Cristina Greavu, Ashley Wells
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Outdoor Learning for the Complete Child - Hillbrook School
Hillbrook School was founded in 1933 on the belief that the environment rather than genetics raises the child. While working on a campus strategy and masterplan effort, MKThink engaged the school community in exploring healthy outdoor learning potential to reinforce the school’s pedagogy, while helping keep the school’s heavily regulated footprint from growing. In collaboration with our team, the school implemented multiple tactical outdoor projects, including: - a new outdoo
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Marijke Smit, Gavin D'Souza
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Covid 19 Response: Success in Action - North Monterey County
When North Monterey County Unified School District (NMCUSD) was forced to suspend its in-person learning along with the rest of the California in the Spring of 2020, 4,765 students, the kids of migrant workers, 38% of them homeless and foster youth, were suddenly cut off from school and the essential services they relied upon for their daily survival -- access to breakfast and lunch, family services, internet, or just a place to stay during the day. Understaffed and overwhel
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