Inquiry-Based Teaching Implemented at Seton Catholic High School

Seton Catholic High School, in Chandler, Arizona is implementing Shared Inquiry to be used in the school's English Language Arts Classrooms for the coming 2017-2018 school year. Under direction of Principal Victor Serna, and Assistant Principal David Sorkin, the school embarked on training their ELA staff in Junior Great Books, and Shared Inquiry on July 27th. The staff will be providing Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning through English Literature to their students in Grades 9-12.
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A Roundtable Discussion on Illinois Public Education

Evenings@65West, in partnership with Illinois Humanities and The Great Books Foundation, mark the culmination of the year-long, statewide series, “Continuing Ed.” with a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of elected officials, journalists, nonprofit leaders, students, and educators, using a short text by former University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Fiction has significant role in social emotional learning

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Home Is Where The Art Is

la-fountainQueer Ricans drew an audience of ...

Congratulations 2016 MacArthur Fellows!

We’re especially delighted the MacArthur Foundation honored poet Claudia Rankine for her work “illuminating the emotional and psychic tensions that mark the experiences of many living in twenty-first-century America.” Foundation ...