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Halloween Harvest Hoedown 2015 – Save the date!
Our annual Harvest Hoedown is Saturday, October 24th, mark your calendars! We will have bouncy houses, many games, face painting, an obstacle course, karaoke, a cake/wine walk, awesome food, and a...
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Heart of the Matter: Truth
What’s Wrong With our Children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children not to be violent while marketing and glorifying violence…I believe that adult...
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Americans Who Tell The Truth – Traveling Art Exhibit
Experience Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth Exhibit September 19 — November 7 YMI cultural Center 39 S. Market Street, Asheville More information about Americans Who Tell the Truth can...
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Changing the Odds Conference 2015
RCS Curriculum & Professional Development Coordinator, West Willmore, is in Dallas, Texas this week as a participant in the 2015 Changing the Odds Conference. This 4th annual Changing the Odds...
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Guess what the US Department of Ed’s Mission Statement is…
The US Department of Education’s mission statement is “to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.” The...
View ArticleIMPORTANT if you think about the future of your elementary-age child
Middle school is arguably the most important years in a child’s educational experience. You owe it to yourself and your child to attend the Middle School Open House on October 26. (I recommend the 9:00...
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Middle School Open House
Middle School Open House Monday October 26, 2015 9:00 – 11:30 AM or 6:30 – 8:00 PM In the newly renovated Omega classrooms Event will start in auditorium 60 State Street Interactive Middle School...
View ArticleWhat is an educational pioneer?
This brilliant, short, low-cost video explains in less that 7 minutes how we have to hospice old, failing systems (such as fossil fuels and our current public educational system), and pioneer news...
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Barnes & Noble Bookfair
Starting Friday, November 13th and ending Friday, November 20th, all purchases made at Barnes & Noble can be credited to RCS! Get your holiday shopping done early or fulfill a classroom wish...
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Inmates or Students?
Senior Deputy Ben Fields is seen pulling a student from her chair at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., in these three images made from another student’s video recording. AP Like anyone who...
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Kaleidoscope: November 2015
November 2015 Kaleidoscope: The many colorful things happening at Rainbow, from the Executive Director November is here; it feels like life is being squeezed into shorter days. Classrooms have...
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Who Said This?
“The most vital attribute in the world you’re about to enter is not critical thinking or fluency in another language. It’s about whether you’re able to see the world through another’s eyes. The key...
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Personalized Learning Needs to Include Social Learning
Executive Director, Renee Owen, with Howard Gardner, at Project Zero event at Harvard. A primer for Mark Zuckerberg on personalized learning — by Harvard’s Howard Gardner I love this letter from Howard...
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Empowering students with student-led conferences
Rainbow Community School has been doing student-led conferences since the early 80’s. When students lead their own conference, they truly have to reflect on what they have learned, how they learned...
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Affirmative action isn’t just about merit, defined by the same one size fits all empirical measures of the past. The purpose of education can no longer be about sifting out who deserves merit, and...
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Winter Music Performance
Please join us for a musical “Feast of Love” This year’s Rainbow Community School student winter music consort features original music written by students, teachers, and special guests. We hope you...
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Kaleidoscope – January 2016
January 2016 Kaleidoscope: The many colorful things happening at Rainbow, from the Executive Director, Renee Owen As I reflect back on 2015 I am struck by how much was accomplished at our little...
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Who had a fabulous struggle today?
Try it out for a dinner table discussion. The question, “Who had a fabulous struggle today?” is a great example of what educators call a growth-mindset prompt. Students and adults with a growth...
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