Teaching, Learning, Innovation
Follow along as Jeannette Lee Parikh, Ph.D., CSW's Director of Teaching, Learning, and Innovation, shares the latest trends in teaching and learning science, pairing cutting-edge research with a direct look at how CSW translates big ideas into meaningful classroom experiences.
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Centering Our Humanity to Ensure Deep Student Learning
How do we design classes and curriculum to support student learning? With the advent of the internet and now the public engagement of AI, our students can easily access all information everywhere all the time. But the questions remain: Are students building knowledge? Are they developing deep understanding? Are they achieving disciplinary competence? Are they able to “judge claims, recognize patterns, ask better questions, notice errors, and make connections?” (Julie Stern, Education to Change the World). Because access to information is not the same as possessing knowledge. How do teachers ensure that we aren’t just creating more access but facilitating deep learning?Read More -
AI in the Classroom
Read MoreAt CSW, our AI literacy program began first in our adult community. A couple years ago, we sought to understand what our adults know about AI to build from a base. Last academic year, we developed a shared vocabulary within our teaching and student community by having advisors facilitate a presentation that explains AI and start a conversation on what AI is with their advisees. We also brought Dan Be Kim from the Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard University to facilitate professional development on understanding AI and values alignment as a school. In June, we trained our faculty on how to collaborate with LLMs (Gemini) to support student learning by centering our CSW values, using our human wisdom and knowledge to design good prompts, iterate, make the final decision, and practice metacognition.
CSW — a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12 and PG — is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.