User:Peter Kindfield

Peter Kindfield earned his B.A. in Psychology from UCSC and his MA in Educational Psychology and MA and Ph.D. in Science Education from UC Berkeley. Peter began helping both children and adults learn as they engage in purposeful activity since 1976 in a variety of roles including educational researcher, public school teacher, computer educator, Science Coordinator and Lead Science Staff Developer for CSD-2 in Manhattan and Professor of Education at CUNY. Peter is currently Principal and Lead Teacher at The Farm School], Counselor and Curriculum Coordinator for the Kids To the Country (KTC) program, and was a member of the Advisory Board for the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS). Peter’s focus for the last several years has been organizing classrooms into learning communities so diversity becomes a resource as it is on basketball teams, construction crews, cross-functional business teams and in many other situations outside of schools rather than the obstacle it seems to be inside our school walls.