Antonio Viva

Month: December, 2008

The New Art of Conversation

When I started teaching in 1995 the faculty room was the epicenter of conversation among colleagues. You would walk in, there would be a half pot of 3 hour old bitter coffee, folks grading papers, a water cooler and the drone of a photocopier working diligently in the background. Meetings took place in the library [...]

The Uncertainty of it All

Occasionally I find time to browse through some of my favorite websites looking for some good reading or an interesting resource I have yet to encounter. As I browsed through the NAIS website, I came across a letter written by John R. C. Sumner, who in 1951 was a teacher of modern languages at the [...]

Should School Change Be Organic?

I have recently found myself needing to reaffirm my belief that comprehensive school reform is a failed concept. In my previous work with the US Department of Education, I worked with schools that had been identified as low performing and as such, in need of comprehensive school change. While the goals of this project were [...]

21st Century CIOs for 21st Century Schools

This presentation was done on December 6th, 2008 at The Association of Boarding Schools conference in Baltimore, MD. We had a great group of 12 independent school administrators and teachers. Thanks to those who came and enjoy!

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