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Welcome to the blog of Zaq Roberts, Associate Head of School at The Berkeley School in Berkeley, CA. I blog about a wide variety of topics, from classroom moments I witness, to administrative events and conversations, to the educational blogs, videos, and books I am reading and watching, and how they are influencing my thinking. I hope this eclectic approach will give you insight into the many ways that I am engaging in advancing the school and strengthening our program, and I welcome your thoughts and comments!

This blog takes its name from a quotation by Archimedes that reads "Give me a lever long enough, and I can move the world." The TBS mission speaks directly to the need to engage a changing world, while many of the experiences in our program focus on the development of students' agency and authority. TBS is the lever by which we all - administration, faculty, students, and parents - can together move the world to be more humane, compassionate, and responsive. To borrow an important Montessori phrase, it is our way to remake the world.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Connecting cultures through literature

Two Vanderbilt grads have launched a company called Teach Twice aimed at fostering international community development through literature, which I first heard about from Good.is. This is a great idea that has really made me think about our library at TBS, and the home libraries of our students and families.  It would be very worthwhile to go through the main library and each classroom library using different lenses of analysis - cultural awareness, gender diversity, etc. - and this sort of project fits in nicely with part of the TBS mission that speaks to engaging a changing world. Any parent volunteers to help take this on this coming year?
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