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Schools As Places of Joy: We Are Responsible For the Cultures That We Create

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“Why are our schools not places of joy? Because too many of us respond to outrageous edicts by […]

November 18, 2018 school culture

The End of Writing

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“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade… It succeeds or […]

March 18, 2023 digital learning, edtech, learning, technology

The Only Thing of Real Importance: School Culture

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Everything that goes on in a school is a function of the school’s culture. (Gruenert, Whitaker) Commenting on […]

December 10, 2022 digital learning, school culture, travel

Beyond the Ideological Lockdown

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“There is a well-intentioned but misguided belief … that to do anything other than fill young people with […]

October 30, 2021 edtech, education systems, learning, school culture, school design, schools, the arts, wellness

Rethinking the Story of Schools

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“We need a new narrative about education’s purpose that is authentic, based on evidence of our predicament and […]

March 27, 2021 education systems, innovation, learning, school culture, school design, school reform, wellness

Shuggie Bain and the Illusion of Trying Harder

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“There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or […]

January 1, 2021 school culture

The Most Important Thing

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During a conversation with a former student recently, I found myself asking, “what could we have done better […]

December 20, 2020 school culture

Agile Schools and the Possibility of Different Endings

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“Show me a school whose inhabitants constantly examine the school’s culture and work to transform it into one […]

October 25, 2020 school culture

Transforming Learning Culture

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A few years ago, we decided to turn the bells off in our middle school. The periodic shrill […]

November 9, 2019 school culture

School Confidential: What We Might Learn From Anthony Bourdain

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I recently – belatedly, one might say – read the late, celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain’s seminal memoir, Kitchen […]

May 12, 2019 school culture

Don’t Think Too Hard, Try the Experiment

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We hear a lot about the rapidly-changing world in which our students live and the need for them […]

March 30, 2019 digital learning, innovation, school culture, school design

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