Meredy has worked for The Oak Grove School in many capacities over three decades, including as an English Teacher, Director of the High School, Head of School, Director of Teaching and Learning, and currently as Teacher Development Coach. She can be reached at meredybensonrice@oakgroveschool.org
If you do not know yourself, your unconscious as well as your conscious states, all your inquiry will be twisted, given a bias. You will have no foundation for thinking which is rational, clear, logical, sane. Your thinking will be according to a certain pattern, formula, or set of ideas
Visible Thinking: Systems Thinking as a Teaching Strategy Read Post »
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
It Takes a Village: Shining a Light on the School-Home Partnership Read Post »
I have always loved literature, largely because of the sentiments expressed in Dickinson’s poem.
The Art of Inquiry in the Literature Classroom: Musings from an Ex-English Teacher Read Post »
Last November, Oak Grove School welcomed to its beautiful campus both current and prospective families for an All School Showcase and Open House.
Project-based Learning Read Post »
This article describes a new exploration at Oak Grove School, Ojai – Editors’Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that…’ J KrishnamurtiOne of the great challenges of providing a Krishnamurti education within the context of an independent tuition-based school (especially here in America), is balancing accountability for academic excellence with all that is entailed in what he considered to be ‘much more than that’.
Exploring a New Dimension to Learning Read Post »
