Of questions and canyons
Dennie Palmer Wolf’s essay is one of 15 essays published in The Teacher You Want to Be: Essays about Children, Learning, and Teaching. This collection of essays explores questions about education stimulated by the remarkable pre-schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Four Keys to Cultivating a Donor
Featured in Guidestar’s October 2015 newsletter, this article by Dr. Thomas Wolf discusses four key concepts for successful donor cultivation.
The Board’s Role in Donor Cultivation
Headlining a Guidestar newsletter in February 2015, this article by Dr. Thomas Wolf discusses the special role that board members play in donor cultivation.
{jcomments on}A Study of College Student Preferences towards Music and the Performing Arts
With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College commissioned a multi-site research effort in 2012 aimed at gauging how to maximize college students’ performing arts attendance and participation, with a focus on the particular challenges of classical music.
{jcomments on}Evaluations at Mid-Life
In the latest issue of GuildNotes, Dennie Palmer Wolf continues her article series on program evaluations with an investigation of their mid-life.
Timely Opportunities: the Long and the Deep
by Dennie Palmer Wolf
This essay asks whether we are creating a world in which young people have access to the many kinds of time they need in order to thrive. In particular, I am interested in two kinds of time, different from what might be called daily or existence time:
{jcomments on}Building Creative Capital
Frequently our clients — organizations, communities, or metropolitan regions — ask WolfBrown to help them measure the impact of what they do. Drawing on new understandings of creativity, as well as a number of WolfBrown projects, Dr. Dennie Palmer Wolf and Dr. Steven Holochwost suggest that a focus on building creative capital is a powerful way to think about planning for, executing, and measuring the impact of the arts and culture.
“Symphonies Adrift”
Public Perspective, March/April 2003
{jcomments on}Executive Functions: Formative Versus Reflective Measurement
Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, Vol 12(3), Jul, 2014. pp.69-95.
The primary objective of this article was to critically evaluate the routine use of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for representing an individual’s performance across a battery of executive function tasks.
“Orchestras and Classical Music Listeners”
John Bare and Alan Brown
Issues Brief #2, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, June 2003
