In whitewater rafting there’s a risk of getting sucked into a hole you can’t get out of, [...]
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Free Range Seating — or Flexible Learning Environments
Rufus E. Miles Jr. (1910-1996), said where we stand depends on where we sit, meaning that when [...]
Read moreAssessing Life Skills
How does a kid know he’s ready to go out on his own? It’s hard enough for the [...]
Read moreTwo Hats: School Consulting and Ending Veterans’ Homelessness
I’ve been wearing two hats this season – 1. School Consulting and 2. Ending Veterans’ Homelessness. Just [...]
Read moreConsensus Report, Positive Programs and School Policing
When it comes to making schools safer, it’s sometimes hard to decide where to begin: the quality [...]
Read moreMILES DE MANOS
Miles de Manos (Thousands of Hands) is just one of a number of promising programs I got [...]
Read moreInvasion of the Portables
Does that sound ominous? My apologies to the many portables who come in peace. School populations boom [...]
Read moreExtraordinary walls
I write a lot about walls. Just when I think I’ve got it out of my system, [...]
Read moreTrapped; a memoir
The best of memoirs do a number of things well – they give us intimate views of [...]
Read moreTEACH LIKE A CHAMPION
I was recently delighted to discover M. Night Shyamalan’s brilliant book, I Got Schooled, which I now [...]
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