Sam Chaltain is a founding partner of 180 Studio, and the editor of Seed + Spark: Using Nature as a Model to Reimagine How We Learn & Live. Ross Peters is a lifelong educator, poet and photographer who leads school strategy for Explo Elevate, a global learning cooperative. He writes frequently about education at jrosspeters.com/blog/. Now the […]
Strategic Plans and Luxury Cars: They Look So Good on the Lot (Covid19 Update)
this is Third in a series of re-posted and Revised pieces I wrote Pre-covid19 that are more relevant than ever during this stunningly challenging time. I posted The original version of this one on November 21, 2019. [Many of the school leaders who see this will likely have a strategic plan somewhere below a stack […]
Zombies–Undead Colleges and Schools (COVID19 Update)
this is Second in a series of re-posted and Revised pieces I wrote Pre-covid19 that are more relevant than ever during this stunningly challenging time. I posted The original version of this one on January 20, 2020. When I was in seventh grade, I went to see Night of the Living Dead with a bunch […]
Landing the Plane: Finding Clarity within Complexity (Covid19 Update)
this is first in a series of re-posted pieces I wrote Pre-covid19 that are more relevant than ever during this stunningly challenging time. The cockpit–all those screens and switches, too many to count, plus lights, blue, yellow-orange, red. If things are really rough, a buzzer might sound. The voices from the tower are muffled in the radio. If […]
The Moon is Holding its Breath: Goodbye, John Prine
I wanted to be Neil Young or Joe Strummer; I wanted to understand Bob Dylan. John Prine, well, I wanted to be his friend. I live in my head a lot, and Prine has been a good one to keep me company there. When I first heard his music around 1979 when I was at […]
To be a Knowledgeable Citizen During the Pandemic
With truth (inclusive of scientific knowledge) under assault in what many have called an era “post-truth,” I believe we (those within reach of this post) must decide how to react. We must not fall into a cycle of reflecting only on the actions of others with whom we disagree and over whom we have little […]