ABOUT

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The Group SCHOOL:
Archive and Resource Center

The idea for this website project arose in Zoom conversations among The Group School (TGS) alumni wanting to preserve the school’s legacy and illuminate its relevance to new generations engaged in reimagining and reinventing the ways we do schooling.

The TGS website is overseen by a group of student and faculty founding members, many with deep roots in Cambridge and longstanding connections to the Harvard and MIT communities.

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We considered various means of sharing our story — a traditional archive housed at a library, a new documentary film, a collective memoir. Eventually, we settled on a website as the most accessible and inclusive way to tell our story and invite a dialogue with past, current, and future education innovators.

The past 25 years have seen a flowering of school reinvention efforts — including networks of alternative schools, homeschooling co-ops, and school innovation labs. When we look across these efforts, we see many connections to TGS:

Listening to students, taking their ideas and aspirations seriously, and creating learning journeys that make sense to them and their families. ←

Exploring identity in all its social, cultural and racial dimensions. ←

Artistic processes and practices as a way to help students express themselves and construct future visions for themselves and their communities. ←

Encouraging youth activism based on the profound understanding that things do not have to be the way they are and it’s possible to do things differently. ←

It’s our hope that education activists and innovators will make use of the materials in the Archive and Resource Center to further such efforts.

Visit The Archive →

Explore The Resource Center →

Our Team

A directory of past students and staff who are engaged in ongoing The Group School community meetings and communications. If you’d like to be included in this managed list, please get in touch and we will make sure you are added.

Website Creation and Curation

TGS Community Members Who Participated in Zoom Gatherings to Create Website

  • Larry Aaronson

    Faculty

  • Marilyn (Cieuzo) Arrott

    Alumni

  • Paul Atwood

    Faculty

  • Herbert Berry

    Alumni

  • Roland DeBarros

    Alumni

  • Joseph Boyle

    Alumni

  • David Bryant

    Alumni

  • Brian Burke

    Alumni

  • Cynthia (Guerrero) Byrne

    Alumni

  • Patricia Collinge

    Faculty (Deceased)

  • Marcia Cunningham

    Faculty

  • Neil Didriksen

    Faculty

  • Jean (Sullivan) Ebert

    Alumni

  • Janine Fay

    Faculty

  • Barbara Gates

    Faculty

    Personal Website

  • Donna Gillepsie

    Alumni

  • Marion Gillon

    Faculty

  • Peter Haggerty

    Faculty

  • Alison (Gobbeo) Harris

    Alumni
    Email

    LinkedIn

  • Verna Hearnes

    Alumni

  • Deborah (Stewart) Hubbard

    Alumni

  • William Igo

    Alumni

  • Jon Kabat-Zinn

    Faculty

  • David Kelston

    Faculty

  • Susan Klaw

    Faculty (Deceased)

  • Robert Langer

    Faculty

  • Monty Neill

    Faculty

  • Mark Pawlak

    Faculty
    Wikipedia

  • Richard Pearson

    Alumni

  • Michael Pelham

    Alumni

  • Michael Riley

    Faculty

  • Cliff Scimone

    Alumni

  • Steve Seidel

    Faculty
    Email
    Project Zero

  • Judy Schatzow

    Faculty

  • Adria Steinberg

    Faculty
    Email

  • John Sullivan

    Alumni

  • Paul Sullivan

    Alumni

  • Judi Teeter

    Alumni

  • Katherine (Teeter) Thomas

    Alumni (Deceased)

  • Sean Tevlin

    Alumni
    Email

  • Jude Tharinger

    Faculty

  • Marty Tracy

    Faculty

  • Jim Warburg

    Faculty