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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

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

The Snake Oil Education Pandemic

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and […]

December 6, 2020 digital learning

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

Swimming Against the Tide: 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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“Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and […]

May 12, 2019 school culture

School Culture and the Permission To Say No

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Those who marvel at or question the vacations teachers enjoy are unlikely to have experienced the energy drain […]

April 6, 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

Through Another Lens: School Reimagined

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The movie event at Learning by Design sought to address a question that Suzie Boss challenged us with […]

March 9, 2019 digital learning, school culture

Dream Work is Messy: We Teach For What Can Be

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“The first thing that we can do is believe that things can be different.” – Cornelius Minor In the […]

February 21, 2019 school culture

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