Friday, January 29, 2010

A "PD" Day!

The oldest is busy today and we're really not going to get started properly with work on a Friday, so I told Bob he could have today off. Since the school down the street is having a PD day, when we passed the sign, I said, "There, we'll have a PD day!" lol.

I still have my nieces and will be having a visit from a friend and her daughter, but no school work today! Okay, well, not entirely true on my part as I've already been doing some research into Montessori jr. high and high school curriculum and schools. Which is kind of funny because Bob and dd asked yesterday what the PD meant in PD Day and I told them 'professional development', but that I wouldn't be doing any professional development, just taking the day off. haha.

I've actually been quite enjoying my research this morning. I need to do this sort of thing more often, to help keep me focused and attached to a vision. Some links people may find of particular interest:

http://www.alsion.org/index.php
http://www.hersheymontessori.pvt.k12.oh.us/why_hershey/Adolescent%20Program.htm
http://jeffcoweb.jeffco.k12.co.us/charter/compass/middle/humanities.html
http://www.montessori-namta.org/NAMTA/conferences/AdolOrient.htm
http://www.childpeace.org/frames/frames/documents/third_plane_development.pdf

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