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Bedtime Stories
So many wondrous things start out as usual things. I think this is one of the great misconceptions of creative work. Great work doesn’t usually start out great. Often…
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Kinda Crazy Right
The Wright brothers had trouble selling the idea of the airplane to the US military. Seems kinda crazy, right? JK Rowling was paid $2500 for her first book, Harry…
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Check Writing… Check!
The other day, I was listening to two colleagues discussing check writing. One said to the other, “My son had to write a check. He didn’t know how so…
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Deciding Who’s Going to Decide
In Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling rule #12 is, “Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th -get the obvious out of the…
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Learning as Exploration & Creation
From humans earliest days, it seems that we were born to explore. Throughout our time on Earth, humans have traveled over land, over bodies of water, under bodies of…
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Talking Data
Rich and I were talking about engagement this week. He did a presentation in his district on engagement in math and I asked him about it. Basically, Rich said…
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Think Habit Instead of Talent
On a recent Master Class that I watched, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, film director, screenwriter and author, David Mamet said about his writing, something like, I’m not any less…
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Sweet Beats
JK Rowling was told her stories were too long, nobody would read them. Van Gogh sold one or two watercolors in his lifetime. The doctor who originally advocated for…
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Is it Interesting?
In education we spend a lot of energy figuring out if student work is good or not. And although this isn’t necessarily wasted energy, asking if something is good…
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Showing Up
Showing up can be hard. Think about the kid who struggles. The outsider. The kid without friends. The one who gets picked on. They show up. Everyday. Anticipating the…