History Club Provides Opportunity for Authentic Investment

“What’s the difference between ideology and belief?” Eva asks. It’s 8:30 on a Wednesday morning, and thirty learners have arrived at Long-View an hour before the start of their first block to engage in civic discourse about civics. Welcome to History Club. Invigorated by the return to in-person meetings this fall, the cohort of historically minded fourth through eighth graders has grown and elected to tackle some pretty complex subject matter: the evolution of political thought and government structures. During this meeting, the second of the year, learners examine an extensive list of governmental forms and consider the sources, ideologies, and organizing principles of political power….

Curating a Diverse Library for Our Learners

Here at Long-View, the members of the Literacy team tend to moonlight as librarians. Whether during the school year on Thursday afternoons, early in the morning, or during the summer months, we are constantly expanding, curating, organizing, and pondering the Long-View library collection. In recent years, Long-View has particularly committed itself to enriching the diversity of the books we offer our learners. While the push for more diverse books—especially for children and teenagers—has become a major initiative across the education and publishing worlds in the United States only relatively recently, it’s much more than a fashionable trend. And it’s much more than an empty gesture towards inclusivity….

Build Week 6: From Chaos to Constitution

Build Weeks at Long-View are a chance to span and expand our academic blocks; they typically focus on one, rich challenge, involve experts from the larger community, and call for higher levels of reasoning and discourse. Our second Build Week of the year concluded last week and was again a huge success. Ultimately, the children followed in the path of countries around the world by writing a constitution, and they did their work by using a new and pretty amazing platform called Constitute, which provides resources and analysis for constitutional drafters in new democracies....

The Setting: Keecklah Island
Population: 3,856

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