Montana families are choosing microschools for personalized, learner-centered education. Educators like Christa Hayes are creating small schools focused on outdoor learning and project-based academics. These microschools offer new educational options and a strong...
What happens when you give kids support and an open playground? Austin Kleon’s son, Owen, dropped his latest SoundCloud album. He’s 11. My favorite track, Typing, is embedded here. It’s a banger of creativity. And heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and...
The premise for the first Star Trek film featuring the original series cast proposes that a probe from Earth, Voyager 6, traveled so far and accumulated so much information as it traveled the cosmos that it achieved sentience. And when it did, it wanted to return to...
Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com “It would be nice if all of the data which sociologists require could be enumerated because then we could run them through IBM machines and draw charts as the economists do. However, not everything that can be counted counts,...
After letting it sit on my bookshelf for almost a year, I dove into this book from Ron Berger. I wish I had started sooner. So many thoughts and ideas about what school can be for our students showed up in this book, helping me feel like I’m not crazy.Anyone...
