Monthly Archives: December 2015

Trust as a Cultural Expectation in Schools and in Classrooms

Posted on December 16, 2015 by rowfn

I was recently fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit several Finnish schools. Maybe I expected to see something really enlightening in Finland; some amazingly creative teaching method or a particularly innovative model, but I didn’t.  I was not … Continue reading →

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Going Beyond Challenging the Educational Myth: Using relationships to combat the deficit theory

Posted on December 4, 2015 by rowfn

Scores of books, blogs, and articles have challenged the deficit theory, which was defined by Collins in 1988 as a belief that the poor are poor because of their own moral and intellectual deficiencies. Of course, that hasn’t stopped a … Continue reading →

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