Deborah Kenny

“Children need long distance, steady, persistent advocates who do the hard, quiet, thankless day-to-day work.”

— Deborah Kenny

“we created the “HOURS” tradition, to teach them how to spend their evening hours at home constructively: the H was for Homework,…

— Deborah Kenny

“Education is not about developing products. It’s about developing people.”

— Deborah Kenny

“You hire people you trust completely to do the job. Then you create a culture that enables them to do their best…

— Deborah Kenny

“I believed schools should teach children to behave with “preventive discipline” strategies: clarifying expectations, establishing routines and practicing them, speaking with a…

— Deborah Kenny

“A culture of learning in an adult workplace is not just about “training.” A culture of learning is when a community of…

— Deborah Kenny

“He said the purpose of public education isn’t to serve the public, it’s to make a public. Like Dewey believed, the purpose…

— Deborah Kenny

“Imagine a school where students work so intensely that the world outside the essay or problem or experiment before them seems muffled…

— Deborah Kenny

“One type of kounaikenshuu is called lesson study: teachers plan one lesson together, observe each other teaching, analyze the outcome, and then…

— Deborah Kenny

“it occurred to me that teachers are the consummate knowledge workers, yet they were being treated like manual workers.”

— Deborah Kenny

“I wanted our teachers to refrain from providing conclusions as starting points, but rather insist that students assemble valid evidence to reach…

— Deborah Kenny