We have accomplished some amazingly big things at Clariden for being a school of our size. While competing at the BEST competition several years back one of the judges said to me, “Clariden is the small school with big muscle. Your students are amazing”. Obviously, it’s not that our…
While teaching at the university level, I had the opportunity to teach a course called Practicum. As a part of this course, students worked at a place of business gaining practical experience. Over the years, I’ve taught numerous sessions of Practicum. For my students that were working within learning…
What’s Hygge? Pronounced: HOO-GA Hygee is a Danish term that according to Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen is the Danish secret to happy living. You’re probably asking me why I’m addressing this in Clariden‘s newsletter. Well, I’ve been so fortunate, over the past several weeks,…
I teach a parenting class each weekend and one of the members of my class was interested in gaining insight into how to teach children to be humble. As I researched the topic, I stumbled across a recently published article in The Washington Post titled: Leaders are more powerful when…
We’re heading into what in the private school world is referred to as “admissions season”. Over the course of the past several weeks I’ve toured numerous families and have already received applications for the 2017/2018 school year. Several families, as we toured, asked me about project based learning (PBL)…