Finding Balance in the Online Marketplace for Giving
Finding Balance in the Online Marketplace for Giving When markets are open, and new economic transparencies (like microlending websites) impact reputation, balancing the market between givers and receivers can be difficult. More and more websites are born facing that challenge. Making any online...
Ecole Montessori Morvan
Par son implantation en plein cœur du parc naturel régional du Morvan, l’école Montessori du Morvan cherche à reconnecter l’enfant à la nature, au concret et à renforcer son lien avec le vivant. L’école joue un rôle de pionnier dans la compréhension et la modélisation de ce que peut apporter la...
Ecole la Marelle
L’école La Marelle est un établissement pluriel qui s’inspire et mélange différentes propositions pédagogiques (Montessori, Freinet, …) tout en développant ses propres outils. Elle est orientée vers le plaisir d'apprendre et la valorisation de tous les talents qu’ils concernent les intelligences...
La Maison de l'Enfant
La priorité de la Maison de l’Enfant réside dans la découverte, par les enfants, de leur immense potentiel. L’environnement pédagogique créé au sein de la Maison de l’Enfant permet aux enfants de se positionner dès le plus jeune âge en tant qu’acteur de changement. La pédagogie est basée sur le...
A Trade Off? Liberal Learning & Professional Skills
Last week, Tom Ehrlich—Professor at the Stanford School of Education and formerly Senior Scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching—shared insights from his forthcoming book Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession as part of Ashoka U’s...
The Mabin School
The Mabin School is a small, progressive school whose mission is to create the next generation of original thinkers, adaptive leaders, and caring citizens. Mabin focuses on developing confident, independent learners through a child-centred approach to education. All aspects of a child’s development...
Peer Tutor Reading: Creating Friends, Refining Ability, Cultivating Compassion
How a school in Vancouver, Canada, is connecting multi-aged students through reading buddies It’s not always easy for second graders to learn how to read, but it’s a lot more challenging when they’re learning to read in a foreign language. This is the scenario at Lord Tennyson, a French immersion...
Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet’s Playworks featured on ABC’s Nightline
What’s play got to do with learning and safety? Everything, according to Ashoka Fellow Jill Vialet. Don’t miss this in depth feature on Playworks, which focuses on the importance of play in fostering positive behaviors and learning both inside and outside the classroom. Check out the video and full...
Podcast: DonorsChoose.org Responds to the Scarcity of Public School Learning Materials
As a social studies teacher at a Bronx public high school, Charles Best discovered that teachers who needed learning materials for their students were having to dig into their own pockets to buy them for their classrooms. So he founded DonorsChoose.org, a website for online, citizen philanthropy...
Charles Best Makes Fortune's 40 Under 40
It has been an exciting couple of months for Charles Best, founder and CEO of Donorschoose.org. In August, his organization, which matches donors with public school classroom projects across the country, received a check for $1.3 million to cover all project wishes in the state of California. More...