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Astrobiology Teachers Academy Teacher Mentor Meeting. Meeting at 112 Spring Street on January 27^th to prepare proposals for NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference. For more information visit http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/

ACASE works with the Waldorf High School of the Peninsula to develop next generation assessment and evaluation practices.  To learn more visit Community Meetings  and Highlights of the Workshop Weeks

2011-2012 ACASE is supporting The Waldorf High School of the Peninsula to envision and build systems of educational assessment and evaluation that truly serve teachers and learners.  Learn more about this courageous and imaginative school from coverage in a recent New York Times article:  A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute.

ACASE supports the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Astrobiology Teachers Academy.  ACASE provides educational assessment and evaluation services to the New York Center for Astrobiology to support this NASA/NAI funded program which uses the search for life beyond the earth to spark student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education and Careers.

Paul Zachos presents: “The Lasting Contribution of Piaget and Inhelder to a Science of Education” at the 11th International IHPST and 6th Greek History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Joint Conference in Thessaloniki, 1-5 July 2011, Greece. The Conference Theme was “Science & Culture:  Promise, Challenge and Demand”. For Conference Abstracts click here [Abstracts are in alphabetical order by author]

Paul Zachos presents a workshop on “A practical alternative to destructive testing practices in educational programs” at the World Conference on Educational Sciences in Istanbul Turkey

New ACASE Office Manager

ACASE welcomes Adriana Gomez Piccolo as our new Office Manager. Although born in the United States, Adriana spent her formative years in Madrid, Spain and received a Baccalaureate degree in English Philology from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She has completed a Masters degree as a Literacy Specialist (grades 5-12) at the University at Albany where she has also conducted advanced work in Education and Literacy. Her interest in the inner workings of the educational process is part of what attracted her to working with ACASE. Adriana Gomez Piccolo is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian, and French.

Workshop on the Philosophy of Freedom for Educators.

This workshop was offered by Lezlie Dana and Paul Zachos of ACASE

6th Annual Alternative Education Resource Organization Conference
June 25th-28th, 2009

http://www.aeroconference.com/albany.htm

More than 100 years ago (and a quarter of a century before initiating Waldorf Education), Rudolf Steiner waged an epic struggle against philosophies and ideologies that would limit human knowledge and freedom. He charted his path to attaining freedom, moral imagination and love in the book titled The Philosophy of Freedom. This struggle continues today in the field of education against those forces that would circumscribe human aspirations within cultural and biological limits.

The philosophy of freedom is a way for individuals to gain knowledge through their own activity and for communities to grow in a spirit of freedom. The workshop explored the use of conversation as a tool for supporting each other as free and responsible beings in an educational environment.

Workshop on Alternatives to Destructive Assessment and Grading Practices delivered by ACASE at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School Conference on Progressive Education http://www.ecfs.org/

Workshop on Assessment Techniques and Grading Issues for Waldorf Schools. Delivered by Paul Zachos to the Waldorf High School of the Peninsula, Cupertino California