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Netflix's Adolescence is more than just another teen drama—it's a window into the risks, contradictions, and hidden struggles of today's young people. In this special pop culture episode, Terry Dubow and Bill Sneed, Director of the Junior High at Marin Montessori School, explore the show's emotional accuracy, why it hits a nerve for adults, and what it reveals about how we understand—and often misunderstand—adolescence.The episode touches on sensitive topics and is intended for adult listeners.

What if our education system prioritized deep learning over competition? In this episode of Grounded and Soaring, host Terry Dubow speaks with Scott Looney, Head of Hawken School and founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, and Bill Sneed, Director of Marin Montessori's Junior High, to explore how Montessori and Mastery-based learning offer a compelling alternative to the traditional sorting machine of grades, GPAs, and standardized tests. Inspired by David Brooks' viral Atlantic article, How the Ivy League Broke America, this conversation dives into the flaws of traditional academic systems and highlights real-world, skills-based approaches that foster true intellectual growth.

Winter break can be magical—but also overwhelming for young kids and parents alike. In this episode, host Terry Dubow talks with Siri Panday, Marin Montessori's Director of Education for Toddler and Primary, about creating a joyful, enriching holiday experience. Discover expert-backed tips on: Maintaining comforting routines while embracing holiday spontaneity Traveling with young children and creating familiar spaces on the go Managing family gatherings and setting social expectations gracefully Planning meaningful, Montessori-inspired activities at home or away Whether you're traveling, hosting, or keeping it low-key, this episode offers practical advice for a peaceful, joyful winter break with your family.

In today's divided world, how can parents raise kids who listen with empathy, think critically, and engage in meaningful dialogue—even when faced with opposing views? In this episode of Grounded and Soaring, host Terry Dubow sits down with educators Minnie Wales and Bill Sneed to explore:

Episode 132: Trust & Fear   Talking about fiction is our JAWN slushies. Join us as we discuss Terry Dubow's "The Q," a short story that sounds like it wants to be a crime novel: a murderer gets out of jail and asks to stay with his pen pal. The surprise is that the piece is also a gentle story of male friendship and compassion. We're drawn to the story's ability to showcase the odd-ball sincerity of letter writing, and the strange, retro experience of having to wait for a response. Can you imagine? Putting a letter in a mailbox? Waiting for a reply that has to make its way to you through actual space and time? Does anyone remember licking a stamp? We're here for it, Terry Dubow. Tell us a story.    At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Samantha Neugebauer, Dagne Forrest, Lisa Zerkle, Divina Boko, Jess Fielo (sound engineer) Born outside of Los Angeles, Terry spent most of his adult life in the great city of Cleveland, Ohio. He is now in the middle of a planned mid-life crisis and living with his wife of 30 years in Marin County, California. While he works at a school that sits directly across from San Quentin, the origin of “The Q" comes directly from his uncle-in-law, Gary Weske, who 20 years ago told a version of it that stuck in Terry's head ever since. Thanks, Gary! Over the last years, Terry has published more than 25 stories, most recently in The Meadow (upcoming), Litro, Clockhouse, and The New Ohio Review, which nominated his story “Bandits” for the Best of the Net. His frustratingly unpublished novels are represented by Lisa Grubka at the United Talent Agency.    

In this episode of Grounded and Soaring, Terry Dubow and Siri Panday, Director of Education for Toddler and Primary at Marin Montessori, dive into the complexities of separation anxiety in young children. From school drop-offs to moments of everyday goodbyes, learn how to create routines that promote confidence and help your child thrive emotionally. Episode Highlights: Spotting the signs of typical separation anxiety vs. deeper concerns Practical strategies for establishing stress-free morning and evening routines Tips for short, reassuring goodbye rituals that build confidence Understanding the developmental stages related to independence Supporting emotional growth through positive, calm separations

Welcome back to Grounded and Soaring. In this first episode of Season 3, Terry Dubow and Sam Shapiro dive into the importance of "thinking differently" about education. Based on Sam's recent blog post, this episode explores how to break free from outdated assumptions about learning, encourage deeper thinking, and prepare children for an ever-changing world. Episode Highlights: Understanding the risks of "automated thinking" and how it impacts education. Why age-based grades and standardized models might limit a child's potential. Strategies to create an environment where children feel safe exploring diverse perspectives. How to balance digital exposure while fostering deep learning and curiosity. Key qualities children need to develop today to navigate an uncertain future.

In the latest episode of 'Grounded and Soaring,' host Terry Dubow invites Marin Montessori School's Eluna Antle and Carla Rummo to explore the acceleration of adolescence that we see everywhere in our culture. Eluna, an Upper Elementary teacher, and Carla, a parent of young adolescents, describe how extending childhood with an additional year in a Montessori Elementary class nurtures resilient, curious, and emotionally intelligent young individuals. Episode Highlights: The significance of Montessori education in countering the early onset of adolescent pressures. A deep dive into the sixth grade at MMS: the extra year that makes a difference in a child's life. Addressing parental concerns about digital distractions and the importance of preserving childhood innocence. This discussion is pivotal for parents and educators seeking to foster a balanced, holistic developmental journey for children in an era of accelerated adolescence.

In this episode of "Grounded and Soaring," join Terry Dubow and Marin Montessori educators, Liesbeth Koning and Seth Kroschel, as they tackle the evolution of math education for young minds. Discover how the Junior High's new math program steps away from traditional methods to foster a learning environment where understanding and curiosity drive student success. Delving into the challenges and rewards of adopting new educational models, this talk is an essential listen for any parent who worries about the right balance in their child's education. Episode Highlights: Unveiling Marin Montessori's innovative approach to Junior High math that balances fundamental skills with real-world application. The impact of mixed-age classrooms and individually paced homework sets on student learning and engagement. Liesbeth and Seth's insights into the value of learning from mistakes and fostering a growth mindset in math education. Discussion on low-tech teaching strategies that focus on concept mastery over digital distraction. Addressing parental concerns about the efficacy of new educational models versus traditional standards.

Now that it’s winter break, we all have a chance to take a breath and reflect a bit about the fall and just what we accomplished and what it asked of faculty, students, and families. And just in time because many schools will begin 2021 in remote...In this episode, Terry Dubow and Garet Libbey invite Courtney Martin, Hawken’s Director of the Lower School, and Dr. Michelle Harris, Director of the Middle School to talk about lessons learned and tips for how to make the most from the next round of remote learning. Educators and parents will get a glimpse into best practices for helping young students thrive during this heightened but temporary (!) moment.

ReDesigning School is not a political podcast -- there are enough of those -- but a few days before the 2020 election, Terry Dubow and Garet Libbey sat down (virtually of course) with Laura Tavares, Program Director for Organizational Learning and Thought Leadership at Facing History and Ourselves. The goal: to explore how schools can build programs and cultures that inspire what's become something of a rarity in our democracy -- civil and engaged citizens. The good news is that many educators are working hard on this necessary, urgent enterprise. Laura leads strategic partnerships, designs learning experiences for educators, and creates innovative classroom resources. She writes about history, current events and education for publications including the New York Times, Educational Leadership and Social Education. Laura joined the staff of Facing History in 2005 after several years teaching history and literature in independent schools. She is also a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero Classroom. Laura graduated from Wellesley College and received graduate degrees in literature and history from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. A few helpful resources mentioned in the episode:Resource Guide for teaching about the 2020 electionHow to Foster Civil DiscourseDanielle AllenThe Better Arguments Project Ron Ritchhart and the Eight Forces of Culture

We're not alone! Not by a long shot. Educators around the world are immersed in rethinking what, how and why we teach and students learn. One school that's starting from scratch is The Revolution School in Philadelphia, a new high school with a mission "to inspire a diverse group of learners, thinkers, and doers to be active and reflective problem-solvers, who are bold and empathetic with academic and emotional resilience."Co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin spoke with Noelle Kellich, Head of Teaching and Learning, and Tom McManus, Head of Mission, about the Revolution School's origin, mission, hopes, and worries. As they note on the website, "It’s not every day that a school gets the chance to build its curriculum from the ground up. With Revolution School, we are fortunate to be able to take a principled approach based on current research in education from around the globe."Also, if you're interested in reading the story about the legendary Polish Boy sandwich that Terry mentions, take a look!

Private school marketers hear the warning signs loud and clear. If private schools want to thrive, not merely survive, they need to innovate and become something so great that parents can’t ignore them. They need to be so outstanding, parents will be standing in line with their children to get in. Enter The Mastery School of Hawken as one road to innovation that has great promise. Scott Looney joined Hawken School as its 10th head of school in July 2006. Since that time he’s worked to advance the school with a variety of forward-focused initiatives that have earned national recognition. His belief in student-centered and authentic learning has fueled each effort including the founding of the Mastery Transcript Consortium in 2017 and the new Mastery School of Hawken, which will welcome its students in August 2020.  Terry Dubow has served as Hawken’s Director of Special Projects since 2015, a role that has allowed him to develop strategic messaging and positioning for the launch of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, and now the development of the Mastery School of Hawken. He’s also served as the Associate Head of School at Westtown School, the Director of Strategic Projects and the Director of Communications and Marketing at Hathaway Brown as well as an English teacher.

Private school marketers hear the warning signs loud and clear. If private schools want to thrive, not merely survive, they need to innovate and become something so great that parents can’t ignore them. They need to be so outstanding, parents will be standing in line with their children to get in. Enter The Mastery School of Hawken as one road to innovation that has great promise. Scott Looney joined Hawken School as its 10th head of school in July 2006. Since that time he’s worked to advance the school with a variety of forward-focused initiatives that have earned national recognition. His belief in student-centered and authentic learning has fueled each effort including the founding of the Mastery Transcript Consortium in 2017 and the new Mastery School of Hawken, which will welcome its students in August 2020.  Terry Dubow has served as Hawken’s Director of Special Projects since 2015, a role that has allowed him to develop strategic messaging and positioning for the launch of the Mastery Transcript Consortium, and now the development of the Mastery School of Hawken. He’s also served as the Associate Head of School at Westtown School, the Director of Strategic Projects and the Director of Communications and Marketing at Hathaway Brown as well as an English teacher.

When you need a soon-to-be doctor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science to confirm what experience has taught you, it’s nice to know one as kind and astute as Vasanth Sarathy. A doctoral candidate at Tufts University, Sarathy has conducted several research studies on the value of real-world problem solving. One of them caught the eye of Julia Griffin and Terry Dubow, who invited him to share his research and insights. It turns out that neuroscience can tell us a lot about the value of using unscripted and authentic problems to propel student learning. If you want to learn more about Sarathy’s research, watch his TED talk and read the article in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience that started this conversation.

Google started as a search engine in 1998 and now is an Alphabet valued at three-quarters of a trillion dollars. In between those two moments in time, it transitioned from a mere idea to one of the most profound and disruptive technologies in the history of the human race. What could schools learn from this kind of evolution? A lot, it turns out. In this episode of the pod, Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin interview John Schirm, Compensation Manager at Google, to learn more about how Google created a culture that values growth, psychological safety, and collaboration. We also hear a bit of a defense of liberal arts colleges and just how amazing lunchtime is on the Google campus.Thanks as always to Nick Fletcher and Rennie Greenfield for their technical support.

It’s hard to think of a field that demands more content acquisition than medicine, so what to make of medical schools that train doctors using problems not tests? Dr. Neil Mehta, Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, joined Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin on the pod to discuss the paradigm shift that has altered the way that he and his colleagues prepare our future doctors. They started with a simple and profound question: “What are the competencies that make a good physician?” The answers surprised them and changed everything.

Every one of our graduates eventually becomes someone else's employee. As we redesign school, how much should we take into account the world of work our students will enter? You could make the argument that the model of today's school was designed to create and sort labor pools for industries -- many of which have changed profoundly or even disappeared. (Truth in advertising: we make that precise argument at The Mastery School of Hawken...). Should we now design school around the needs of Google or the local wind turbine manufacturer? In this episode Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin chew on this topic with the help of Sarah Pearson, Product Support Manager at Google and Hawken alum, who sheds some light on the world of work. She also shares her ideas about what schools should and shouldn't do to prepare students.If you're interested in seeing the video that Julia references, click here. You might also be interested in this piece about how some employers are opting out of asking where or whether applicants went to college...

If you haven't heard, we're designing a new school. The Mastery School of Hawken is a new high school in Cleveland’s University Circle designed with students and the future in mind. We’ll welcome our founding class in August 2020. In this episode, Julia Griffin changed hats and sat down for an interview in her new role of the Director of the Mastery School of Hawken. Scott Looney, Head of Hawken School, joined Terry Dubow to dig into the why and the what and the how of this new venture. If you're at all interested in what the future of school might look like, you'll want to download this one...

When students hear there's a project coming their way, they don't always jump for joy. And yet we know that projects are some of the best tools we have for helping students achieve enduring and deep learning. In this episode of Redesigning School, Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin work on their own project: How to Make Project-Based Learning Work.They're joined by Doris Korda, former Associate Head of School at Hawken, who was the principal architect of Hawken Entrepreneurship program and the signature MACRO courses, as well as a critical coach/designer with the Hawken faculty of many of the Intensive courses. Doris' curriculum is the foundation of the educational and instructional framework of the Mastery School. She is working with the leadership and faculty at Hawken to design the school's curriculum, and is training and coaching teachers in how to bring this transformational teaching method to the Mastery School's classrooms.Thanks to Rennie Greenfield and Nick Fletcher for their production help!

Does your school feel like it should rebrand itself as Suffering Academy? When kids are young, play is an essential part of learning, but then something happens that converts play and its black sheep cousin fun with something antithetical to the real work of a rigorous and challenging education. Why though?In this episode of Redesigning School, teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin invite three of their colleagues at Hawken School to discuss the benefits of making school joyful again.Special thanks to Becca Marks, Lauren Coil-Sherck and Steve Weiskopf for joining the pod. And as always, thanks to Rennie Greenfield and Nick Fletcher for their production help!If you're interested to read some of the pieces mentioned in this episode, click away!Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students -- Denise Pope Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World -- Steven JohnsonThe Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human -- Jonathan GottschallFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you could start all over, how would you design high school? Hawken School asked a group of seniors precisely that. Actually, Julia Griffin and Head of School Scott Looney taught a three-week Intensive course in which students got a blank sheet of paper, a thorough download of current research, and a trip to the Bay Area so they could draw up a school designed with them and the future in mind. On this episode of Redesigning School, teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin interview Scott and discuss the trip to California, the class, and what inspired it all. Special thanks to Rennie Greenfield and Nick Fletcher for their production help!

Teachers and co-hosts Terry Dubow and Julia Griffin kick off the inaugural episode of the Redesigning School podcast with a conversation about the role grades play in a student's education and a teacher's vocation. Let's just say that it's a complicated relationship.A few references that we mention (or should have!) :"Letter Grades Deserve an F" -- Jessica Lahey The AtlanticMindset -- Carol DweckDrive -- Daniel Pink“Do School Better” podcast at Wildfire Education -- Doris KordaThe Secret of Effective Feedback -- Dylan Wiliam"Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback" -- Kristy LoudenSpecial thanks to Rennie Greenfield and Nick Fletcher for their production help!

Hello and welcome to Episode #12! For the first time on our podcast, we are discussing fiction! Today, we will talk about a short story, “Prufrock” by Terry Dubow. We were nervous about discussing this longer format, but super excited to try it out.  Hello and welcome to Episode #12 of PBQ’s Slush Pile! For the first time on our podcast, we are discussing fiction! Today, we will talk about a short story, “Prufrock” by Terry Dubow. We were nervous about discussing this longer format, but super excited to try it out. ] Dubow has been writing fiction for twenty years or so—it’s his secret identity without exciting parts. No super powers. No spy stories. No second family in Idaho. In addition to writing 250 words a day, he works at an independent school in Cleveland and does his best to help his two daughters and his one lovely wife stay happy, healthy and fed. A story collection was a finalist for the Autumn House Fiction Prize in 2011. Currently, he’s working on his third novel. We want more, and after reading this story, we have a feeling you will, too. Read another story, “Wyoming” in Witness. We advised our listeners to go read Prufrock first, but of course, we can’t know that they did--it’s all an experiment, right? We dove right in: raccoons and a cat and teenagers and mother-in-laws, oh my!!! This story packs so much into thirteen pages; we laughed at moments, and while we may not have cried, we winced at all the right parts. This story made us think about fatherhood, T.S. Eliot, incapacitation, indecision, and whether we should be paid by the hour. Once again, Tim schooled us on the real habits of the wildlife of North America, and we could have discussed the story for another hour. We had some dissension about how the piece ends and even more about what happened to Prufrock; please read, listen to this show, and cast your vote! Marion suggested that we might provide a synopsis of the story at the beginning of episodes that discuss fiction, which sparked a discussion of recap podcasts and the ways we consume longform media. With such an overwhelming amount of media coming at us in so many ways---how do you consume? You can let us know on our Facebook event page and our twitter @PaintedBrideQ. Don't forget to subscribe and rate us on our iTunes  page! As always, thank you for listening, and read on!   Present at the Editorial Table: Kathleen Volk Miller Marion Wrenn Tim Fitts Denise Guerin Alexa Josaphouitch Caitlin McLaughlin   Production Engineer: Joe Zang   PBQ Box Score: 1:1