Hello. I hope you have had a great weekend and that you are enjoying the same spectacular weather that we have had. As you review a traditional school curriculum, one of its major drawbacks is that it is heavily weighted toward engaging the left hemisphere of the brain. This is the portion of the brain which caters to factual, sequential, analytic, and logical work. As Daniel Pink (A Whole New Mind) and others have mentioned such an unbalanced curriculum is a significant problem. At NCS, our substantial commitment to studio and performing arts, as well as our ability to integrate the arts within the core academic classes through our multi-disciplinary approach goes a long way toward addressing that imbalance. Along with the photograph I have enclosed a link to an article in the current issue of the New Yorker. Malcolm Gladwell's essay is about creativity and late bloomers, and it has many implications for educators.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell">
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