As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read MoreWe’re seeing–from Getting Smart, Education Reimagined, and others–more and more helpful lists of schools that are pushing the envelope of the traditional school model. But at the moment, with everything that’s surfacing, it’s a bit hard to decipher what themes are emerging and where things are headed.