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A Q&A with Gardner Campbell By Mary Grush 03/08/21 We've heard a lot lately about moving the remote learning experience farther away from a training model and closer to a collaborative learning model in which students participate together in the co-creation or discovery of knowledge. As far back as the 1960s, alongside the work of Doug Engelbart, people have dreamed about ways to augment the knowledge worker, the researcher, the scholar, the faculty, and the student in the classroom. Today, a conversation about how to do that might consider anything from a game-changing theoretical foundati...

Have Black Lives Matter protests changed the curriculum? In 1903 the African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois coined the term ‘double consciousness’. American racism, he said, forced African-Americans to see themselves two ways. Among themselves, they were wives, husbands, friends, children. At the same time, America’s racial apartheid, ‘Jim Crow’, forced African-Americans to measure themselves as White America did, that is, with “contempt”. While discussing with African-American scholars how last spring’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests affected the curriculum in universi...

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THE SECOND online consultation meeting into the proposed expansion of Bramhope Primary School will take place on Thursday, January 14. The school could be permanently expanded to take in more pupils under new plans. If approved the proposal would see the school's reception intake increase by 20 places each year from September 2022. The Collaborative Learning Trust - a Leeds-based multi academy trust that also includes Prince Henry’s Grammar School - has been working with Leeds City Council on the scheme. A six-week consultation begun in December and people were invited to express th...

'DEEPLY honoured'. That is how a Wharfedale school's headteacher has reacted to the news that she has been awarded an OBE. Janet Sheriff, who leads Prince Henry's Grammar School in Otley, is receiving the honour in recognition of her services to education in West Yorkshire. Ms Sheriff, who is also the CEO of the Collaborative Learning Trust, was told she had been named in the Queen's New Year 2021 Honours List a few weeks ago - but initially thought it was a joke. She said: "I thought the e-mail was a spoof at first! "Now I know it is for real I am deeply honoured and proud to rec...