{"id":12583,"date":"2023-11-02T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2023-12-13T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:50:20","slug":"north-stars-mike-taubman-what-a-moral-philosophy-course-offers-high-school-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/north-stars-mike-taubman-what-a-moral-philosophy-course-offers-high-school-students\/","title":{"rendered":"North Star&#8217;s Mike Taubman: What a moral philosophy course offers high school students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleducation.stanford.edu\/news\/what-moral-philosophy-course-offers-high-school-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nov 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"cgeo5-0-0\">At the 50th anniversary of Stanford University&#8217;s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) seminar, North Star teacher and Stanford graduate Mike Taubman gave a lecture on &#8220;Searching Together for the Common Good&#8221; and talked about transposing this course to the high school environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first aspect of SLE\u2019s culture that is powerful for high school kids is the challenge, the same challenge we all faced going into SLE, when you take a tenth grader or an eleventh grader or a twelfth grader, and you give them moral philosophy. 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They feel intimidated, for sure, but they also feel respected by the challenge,&#8221; Taubman said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"cgeo5-0-0\">Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/digitaleducation.stanford.edu\/news\/what-moral-philosophy-course-offers-high-school-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Digital Education<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 2, 2023 At the 50th anniversary of Stanford University&#8217;s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) seminar, North Star teacher and Stanford graduate Mike Taubman gave a lecture on &#8220;Searching Together for the Common Good&#8221; and talked about transposing this course to the high school environment. &#8220;The first aspect of SLE\u2019s culture that is powerful for high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uncommonschools.org\/ht\/news\/north-stars-mike-taubman-what-a-moral-philosophy-course-offers-high-school-students\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":12585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newark","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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