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Bringing Up Bebe #3

February 08, 2012 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Parenting, Uncategorized

Check out today’s 2/8/12) New York Times review of the book Bringing Up Bebe. Not exactly “thumbs up” but maybe it  will spark some controversy about the best way to raise children. Onward,  Malcolm Gauld

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Bringing Up Bebe #2

February 07, 2012 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

Over the weekend, there was an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Bringing Up Bebe book. It will be interesting to see if this generates as much discussion as last year’s “Tiger Mom.” Here’s the  link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577196931457473816.html Onward,  Malcolm Gauld

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Gaming The College Rankings

February 01, 2012 | By | Blogs, Current Events & Issues, Malcolm's Blog

“Gaming the College Rankings” is an interesting piece in today’s New York Times.  Writers Richard Perez-Pena and Daniel Slotnick begin by noting that Claremont-McKenna, ranked in the top-10 liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report (the holy grail of rankings), has been caught fudging its numbers.  Apparently, this is newsworthy because, according to one source, [...]

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Bringing Up Bebe

January 27, 2012 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Parenting

In “Docteur Spock,” an interesting article in this week’s New York Magazine, Kera Bolonik previews a forthcoming book by Pamela Druckerman titled Bringing Up Bebe.  Calling the book “both the successor and antidote to Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom,” Druckerman appears to skewer the American helicopterish/snowplowish approach. In her article, Bolonik has Alexandra, a French mother, square off [...]

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Average is (Officially) Over

January 25, 2012 | By | Blogs, Malcolm's Blog, Yup!

Having a daughter a few months away from college graduation, I am an up-close-and-personal witness to the anxieties currently felt by those approaching the job market for the first time.  It’s never been this tough in my lifetime. In recent meetings with Hyde seniors at Bath and Woodstock, I have tried to impart the message that good opportunities are [...]

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A 1st Year Teacher Shares

January 21, 2012 | By | Blogs, How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

Hyde-Woodstock teacher Robert Tunney, new to the profession, shares a story that is instructive to teachers of any experience. Beginning at Hyde: Learning from my students A few weeks ago I was on duty supervising dinner crew. I was sitting around the round table nearest the coffee bar with a group of students that I [...]

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Kirstie Truluck: More Metaphor for Learning

January 17, 2012 | By | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

“How do you get songs on your iPod?”  That was the opening question for a lesson on notes and organization led by master Hyde School teacher John Romac.  The metaphor of the familiar iPod can help students break down and analyze what they do daily and how to apply the same methods to the content [...]

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Deacon Katie Solter ’90

January 16, 2012 | By | Blogs, How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

My 35 years of teaching have taught (and repeatedly retaught!) me a few basic lessons that I guess I should have picked up in kindergarten… had I been paying attention. One of them is to be nice to everybody. You never know if that kid you’re teaching in class or coaching on the field will [...]

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Brother’s Keeper #7: My Experience

January 11, 2012 | By | Blogs, How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

During the 1/7 alumni/student meeting at Woodstock, I told my own story about my experiences with BK in college.  You could say that these experiences reflected my observations expressed in BK Primer #6. The first paper I submitted as a freshman at Bowdoin College was a 2-pager in English Composition.  I thought it was one [...]

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BK Primer #6

January 09, 2012 | By | Blogs, How Hyde Works, Malcolm's Blog

Brothers Keeper is complicated.  It takes years to understand.  (In fact, my father, Hyde’s founder, gets very specific about it, claiming that it typically takes three years.)  One of the great things about Hyde’s charter schools is that we start working with the kids in elementary school on concepts like BK.  It’s perhaps unfortunate that [...]

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Chuck Berry… Check.

January 06, 2012 | By | Blogs, Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

Here’s the situation: We’re sending a time capsule into outer space in the hope that it might be read/viewed/heard by life forms on other planets.  You’ve been asked to include a rock & roll song.  What would you choose?  My choice would be made without hesitation: “Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry. Thanks to the thoughtful generosity of [...]

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Kirstie Truluck: Character Education in the Writing Classroom

January 04, 2012 | By | Guest Bloggers, Kirstie Truluck, Malcolm's Blog

I once worked with a boy in English 11 who illustrated for me his inability to tell the truth through his academic writing.  It wasn’t that he lied about a paper, or plagiarized.  No.  I witnessed a more fundamental link between a student’s character capacity for integrity and his ability to write well in school. [...]

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12 2011 Books I Liked

December 28, 2011 | By | Blogs, Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

Here are 12 books I liked (a lot) in 2011. 1. Still Surprised – A Memoir of Life in Leadership by Warren Bennis 2. Fire & Rain – The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 by David Browne 3. Townie by Andre Dubus III 4. I’ll Never Get [...]

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Twelve 2011 Albums I Liked

December 26, 2011 | By | Blogs, Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

I started casually commenting on record albums in the late-80s as filler for Malcolm’s Monthly, the newsletter I wrote when I was head of school.  I remember the time a friend asked, “Since when are you a music critic?”  Without thinking about it, I replied, “I’m not a music critic…I’m a music liker.”  So, I [...]

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Best Music of 2011

December 24, 2011 | By | Blogs, Cultural Bias, Malcolm's Blog

While the wonder of iTunes has allowed me to amass 7100+ tunes for instant access, I haven’t figured out an effective way to meet up with new tunes/artists/etc.  So, in order to come up with a “Best of 2011” music list, I decided to get “a little help from my friends.” My strategy: I sent [...]

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