Dream Keepers
One way to imagine our role as teachers. The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes Bring me all of your dreams,… more »
Big Problems (math)
WhatI learned from a great math teacher today: mathematics in life (and in college) is not about discreet one-operation problems… more »
Triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit
If school reformers insist we follow a business model, I propose a more current model and reporting system– the concept of triple bottom… more »
Cynicism: Enemy of Action?
Lately cynicism threatens to overwhelm me so I looked for some help from writers, poets, comedian/philosophers. As I gathered their quotes about cynicism,… more »
Congregate
World Cafe reintroduces us to a world we have forgotten. This is a world where people naturally congregate because we want… more »
Survival of the Soul
Spring arrived while testing took over Denver Public Schools–not just in the last two weeks when kids took the tests… more »
Spring Passages
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda In the midst of… more »
Perspective and Compassion
‘We watch the entire drama that is our lives we watch the illusion with unbearable compassion’ Ram Dass more »
What breathes fire?
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is… more »
Faith through hard times
Wisdom from the Irish who know what it means to find ways to persevere through hard times. He who loses… more »
Memories from The Prospect School
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at… more »
Testing….testing…
Shakespearean tragedy, comedy, love story? I can’t help but note a fatal flaw in the sweet story teacher ed applicants imagine in interviews during… more »
Dream No Fear
“They have misjudged us. Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still… more »