Do your students inspire you? Is there something you do as an educator you especially enjoy? For me, co-teaching the very small Creative Solutions for the Global Good class at a high school I visit Read more…
In the swamp of seemingly endless stories about corruption, lies, shootings, and similar, it can be hard to be optimistic about the future. And yet, there are people like Manu Prakash. Centrifuges are devices used Read more…
The first time I watched this video about a South African woman who knits warm things for babies she’s never met, I was moved by the power of her voice to speak to what matters. Read more…
The question, “Do you believe in magic?” raises a natural reply. That being, “What do you mean by ‘magic’?” If magic is what happens when we make wonderful things happen by tapping into the deepest Read more…
This week a story went viral of a young man working in a grocery store spending time letting an autistic boy help him stock shelves. Here’s the page on CNN, or click on the screenshot Read more…
What are you doing in your teaching that in twenty years your students will still remember? That is to say, what in your teaching is powerfully memorable? Our day-to-day work will rarely reach the realm Read more…
Last Friday here in the United States was the orgy of consumerism we call Black Friday. The idea is to get a good deal and not get hurt during the close-quarter scrapping with other deal-hunters. Read more…