Saturday, February 28, 2009

Empire State Building Run-Up Videos

As stated in the MPH IceBox, here are two fun videos that show me during the Empire State Run-Up. I am in the white visor (though not really an important item to wear in the stairwell, I always wear a hat or a visor when running...) You may have to paste the URL's directly in the browser as the links don't always work.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/18424824#29082944

You'll have to copy and paste this in your browser. It's the start of the race and it shows how rough it can get.

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&event_id=591&video_id=8444&folder_id=-2

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Middle school is hard, no matter where you are

I thought I would share with you a post from a friend of mine, Mark Silver, who is a middle school head at an independent school in San Diego. No matter where you go, no matter what you do, middle school issues are basically the same and unavoidable. Read what Mark has to say about it:

http://msinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2009/02/view-from-middle.html

Sunday, February 8, 2009

A NYSAIS reading list

What's being read in the independent school world of NY? Take a look:

We (NYSAIS staff and teachers and administrators of member schools) are reading....


Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (Hardcover - Nov 18, 2008)
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (Paperback - Aug 26, 2008)
I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges (Hardcover - Mar 4, 2008)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges (Paperback - Jan 8, 2008)
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael B. Horn (Hardcover - May 14, 2008)
Predictably Irrational : The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely (Hardcover - Feb 19, 2008)
A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting by Hara Estroff Marano (Hardcover - April 15, 2008)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (Paperback - Dec 26, 2007)
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Paperback - Jul 24, 2007)
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski (Hardcover - Nov 12, 2007)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)

I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio by Jean Feraca (Hardcover - Aug 6, 2007)
Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel (Paperback - Jan 25, 2004)
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (Paperback - Mar 7, 2006)
Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Paperback - Aug 10, 2004)
The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract by Theodore R. Sizer and Nancy Faust Sizer (Paperback - Jul 15, 2000)
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (Paperback - Jan 7, 2002)
Horace's Compromise: the Dilemma of the American High School by Theodore R. Sizer (Paperback - 1992)
The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination (Edition 001) by Robert Coles (Paperback - Jan 5, 1990)
Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori (Mass Market Paperback - Jan 12, 1982