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David Nuñez Vargas - March 30, 2021

I will never forget the moment in March 2020 when they passed out the printed announcement at the Liceo de Uvita, telling us that...

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They are the school

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 29, 2021

Rebeca. Ariel. Ingrid. Gabriela. Silvia. Rebeca surrounds herself in flashcards and pens and laminated charts, even if she is the only one who can touch...

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Searching for a Renaissance

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 26, 2021

The final installment in our four-part series on education and the pandemic in Costa Rica, inspired by a 2006 series by our co-founders that...

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Learning liberated: The movement for innovation in education in Costa Rica

Janiva Cifuentes-Hiss - March 24, 2021

The first thing that strikes you as you enter HeartSong Community of Free Learners is how different it looks and feels from a conventional...

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Those who feed our children

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 22, 2021

What did you eat for your schoolroom lunches? Chicken and garbanzos on top of white rice in a crowded city school? Spoon-shaped orbs of melon...

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The equalizers

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 19, 2021

Third in a four-part series on education and the pandemic in Costa Rica, inspired by a 2006 series by our co-founders that followed three...

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‘I see our school as an innovation lab’

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 17, 2021

In a country with significant educational inequality—differences that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, when the lack of connectivity of more than 400,000 students...

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When a parent is the teacher

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 15, 2021

The curtain is drawn back for us, though at the time, it seems quite dull: long, hopeful hours in the classroom before the year...

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Inequality and the virus

Katherine Stanley Obando - March 12, 2021

Second in a four-part series on education and the pandemic in Costa Rica, inspired by a 2006 series by our co-founders that followed three...

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Wild Backyard, a saving grace during COVID

Thomas Enderlin - March 11, 2021

I have the privilege to work as wildlife, nature, and travel photographer, and as a naturalist guide. When quarantine started as a result of...