Learning Curve

I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of critical thinking in education. Sure, that’s partially due to visiting schools that ask this...

As I start the new year, one of my goals is to organize the countless articles, tweets, and posts I have saved and bookmarked over the...

Twitter is an interesting place. Kris and I have been using it to connect Astra with other like-minded folks in the education world...

We'd like to take this chance to highlight the writing work of Rebecca Bauer. She shares some of the learning that our colleagues at...

Our #EngagingSchools tour is in its home stretch, as three of our National Alliance for Engagement-Based Education (NAEBE) members...

In the past couple of months, I’ve been consumed with two parental pursuits: helping my child take his first steps and coaxing out his...

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....

Preface: I wrote this post several weeks ago now, and between my initial writing and its publication, there was a mass shooting at the...

Education is political. We live in a country where decisions about curriculum, testing, and graduation requirements aren’t solely in the...

I love going on school visits. As a teacher, I was never able to leave my classroom to see someone else’s more than once or twice in a...