Fan Letter to Tanner Christensen
In the book, Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon, Austin Kleon recommends writing public fan letters. I like…
Tag: creativity
Trip to the Movies
Yesterday, my wife and I took or kids and two of their friends to see the movie, The Greatest…
Creativity is a Skill
Many of us, including myself, grew up believing that creativity was a talent. Some people are creative. Others…
The Work Students Should Be Doing
This is a project that one of our students completed at home. Earlier in the year, she took advantage of…
No Instruction Manual
Have you ever gotten ready to build a Lego set and not been able to find the instruction manual?…
Standards We Should Be Focusing On
I recently had to look up a specific language arts standard for a specific grade level. While I was…
A Week of Yes
I’ve written before about the Yes, If mentality: Starting today, what if you said YES for the entire week?…
End of Year Checklist
It’s about that time of year in many schools where we provide each teacher with an end of year…
More of These Things
How do we get more of these things into our classrooms? I was recently rereading Austin Kleon’s book Show…
One Thing
In his blog posted titled, The wasteful fraud of sorting for youth meritocracy: Stop Stealing Dreams, Seth Godin asks,…