• Message from the Head of School
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• Symposium

To celebrate the legacy of progressive education and envision its future, The School in Rose Valley was honored to host a year-long educational symposium. Through case studies of progressively oriented programs, informative speakers, and web-based learning circles, symposium participants deepened their understanding of progressive education beliefs and practices. Additionally, participants identified points of collaboration and formed learning circles through which current theoretical perspectives, socio-political issues, and instructional practices regarding progressive education were explored.

Attendees actively participated in a learning experience that made use of the progressive practices it preaches–inquiry, process, reflection and collaboration (of course, no preaching was allowed). All were surrounded and inspired by fellow progressive educators and thinkers including Alfie Kohn, Roland Barth, Eleanor Duckworth and Patricia Carini while having the time to deeply reflect and re-imagine progressive education's possibilities.

Progressive Education in the 21st Century was attended by public and private elementary, middle and high school teachers and administrators, as well as college and university professors of education, and educational advocates from across the United States.

Original Symposium Website

• Progressive Education in the 21st Century
  (archived: circa 2004)