Adventures at The Linden School: Learning About Get Water! From a Grade Six Perspective


Posted by Admin on May 16, 2014 at 4:45 PM

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Article and image by Renee Jackson. Excerpt from Getwatergame.com

I recently had the great fortune to return to an incredible school in Toronto, where I taught visual art seven years ago, this time as a researcher for Decode Global! I spent three weeks at The Linden School, a small, all girls school, spanning grades one through twelve, with a feminist mandate. Here, the teachers go by their first names, and the girls learn from a young age that their voice and ideas are important. The school produces a culture that is particular to it. Manifestations of this culture or attitude are often referred to as being “so Linden” or as “the Linden way”.

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