

What will a new year teach us?
I’m writing this on New Year’s Eve, at the close of what has been a heartbreaking year for my family. Earlier this month my cousin...


Gifts for Students
I don’t know how everyone else manages the many pieces of holidays with family, but I make lists. I’ve been working on a too-elaborate...


A Second Look at Lectures
Last year I had the great good fortune to be part of the project team that generated the Radically Reimaged Relationships report, which...


When Learning is Magical
This past weekend, as I was perusing the Kids channel on Netflix, I happened across The Magic School Bus. I loved these books and...


Radically Reimagined Relationships
For the past year-and-a-half, the Astra Center for Innovative Education and Center for Inspired Teaching have been collaborating on a...


Nurturing forward movement
Way back in January, as I was setting some intentions for the upcoming year, I added yoga to my list. The truth is, I always add yoga to...


It's not about the angles
We moved to New Hampshire when I was in my early thirties and our first winter was extraordinarily snowy, even for northern New England...


Podcast Love
There are many things I hate about my smart phone, chief among them the way I reflexively turn to it for the latest disturbing headline....


Goals take time
Intentions can be funny, fleeting things, as anyone who has ever made a New Year’s resolution knows. Daily, messy, unpredictable life and...


Reflection & Care: Essential Elements in Teaching & Learning
The beginning of September always fills me with promise (go back & read my blog post, “Why are we still using letter grades?” from 9/5/18...