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Our First Video: A Celebration of First Steps
I don't have time this weekend to write a lengthy post, but I thought I'd share a video which illustrates the sort of goals we are trying to achieve. The girl in the picture is in the fourth grade, and after a minor false start, she successfully solved a double-digit by single-digit multi…
Designing Communities of Learning - Constraining Features
Topographic Maps And Sketch Mapping, 1920. No known copyright exists for this work.By Clarence Thompson
The first post of this series presented the challenge of designing a learning community as a problem of imposing a desired outcome or set of outcomes on a situation that is initially chaotic and …
Designing Communities of Learning: Certain Non-Negotiables
Wrong Way!By Clarence Thompson
As I wrote in the last post, the focus and mission of the Flying University Project is to teach basic arithmetic, algebra and college-prep math to children of color and other marginalized populations who would otherwise be failed by the public school system. This mi…
Designing Communities of Learning - Introduction
Scenic View in Western Afghanistan, Wikimedia Commons, Public DomainBy Clarence Thompson
We now consist of two large teaching teams: one in North Portland, and one in inner Southeast Portland. In addition, one of our teachers runs a SUN after-school math program in North-Central Portland once a w…