Setting the (Uns)Table

Setting the (Uns)Table

  This time of year is usually about pulling together the final details prior to the start of school. Setting the table usually follows a standard pattern, and can be…
Not Understanding Impossible

Not Understanding Impossible

  Kids hold a considerable advantage over their adult counterparts. They are blessed to live life not understanding impossible. It simply doesn’t exist within their vocabularies. As adults, we not…
The Conduit

The Conduit

  I was recently reading The MVP Machine, a book about the use of data analytics in baseball player development. I’ve always been fascinated by the use of data analysis,…
What If…

What If…

  Suspend disbelief and imagine that anything is possible. What if... What if students created their own lesson plans? What if students chose their own teachers and classrooms? What if…
Deciding Who’s Going to Decide

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…
Creating

Creating

  When we create, we roam the edges of possibility.   Each mark, Each stroke, Each word, Each move, Each sound, Each addition (and each subtraction) has the potential to…