OUR CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE.
Come and Learn.
“CHILD CENTERED CONVERSATIONS”
THE (PROGRESSIVE) SCHOOLS OUR
CHILDREN DESERVE with author Alfie Kohn
Presented in Partnership by
The Bridgehampton School, the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center, and the Hayground School
Our knowledge of how children learn – and how schools can help — has come a long way in the last few decades. Unfortunately, most schools have not: They’re still more about memorizing facts and practicing isolated skills than understanding ideas from the inside out; and they still rely on grades, tests, homework, lectures, worksheets, competition, punishments, and rewards. Alfie Kohn will explore the alternatives to each of these conventional practices. He will explain why progressive education isn’t just, a realistic alternative. It is one that’s far more likely to help kids become critical thinkers and lifelong learners.
Alfie Kohn is the author of 14 books on education, parenting, and human behavior, including PUNISHED BY REWARDS (1993), BEYOND DISCIPLINE (1996), THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE (1999), UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING (2005), THE HOMEWORK MYTH (2006), and THE MYTH OF THE SPOILED CHILD (2014). He has written for most of the leading education periodicals and has appeared twice on “Oprah.” Time magazine described him as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades and test scores.” Kohn works with educators and parents across the country and speaks regularly at national conferences. He lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.
