San Jorge Bilingual School in Miraflores, Peru

I had an amazing time with some incredible educators and other folks yesterday at the San Jorge School in Miraflores, Peru. (spanish version here)

We are working on a pretty great new collaborative project that is taking a design-based approach, so lots of great brainstorming on essential questions. Look for updates on that here soon.

I wanted to publically thank the folks at San Jorge for such a fun time together chatting, sharing, and tell them how much I love their enthusiasm for learning!

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Graduation

Our school’s graduation took place this morning. The Class of 2007 is the first class of Weber graduates that I had the opportunity to teach. I taught all of them as tenth graders in American Literature and Composition, and I taught about a third of them again this year in Short Story/Drama and Composition. They’re a great group, and I will miss them dearly. If any of you happen by here, Weber Class of 2007, I want to send you the following message:

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