This light will guide you… | Sewanee: The University of the South.This link above is to a film compiled from various timelapses, and it came today with an Annual Fund ask from Sewanee, my alma mater. I love this sort of photography. The care and precision required to create time lapse photography is remarkable, and […]
How Summer Camp Should Inform School
Over the next couple of months, they will open up the musty storage sheds where they stacked the mattresses in mid-August. They will pull the canoes out to count and inspect even though the weather is not yet warm enough to spend much time on the lake before mid-morning. They will walk the docks with […]
Her First Passport and Her Personal Known World
Tonight I am starting to think about the travel that will be a part of my spring and early summer. When I was a kid, I rarely traveled much more than a couple of hours from home by car. In fact, I only flew on a couple of occasions before I graduated from high school. […]
A Shout Out to Partnerships: Their Relevance in a Progress Culture
Partnerships. Local ones, international ones, public-private ones, online ones. Partnerships between schools, between teachers, between academic departments, between students, between teachers and students, between the school and students, between the school and parents, between the school and the community in which it exists. More and more the value of partnerships is finding its way into […]
TWO-FIVE-TEN: Guidelines for Establishing the Priorities of a Change Initiative
There are different types of priorities during a change process, and I have been thinking recently about how to make them manageable and understandable. For me, it makes sense to think in terms of TWO-FIVE-TEN.TWO: “The Non-Negotiables”I believe there is room for two priorities that are non-negotiable. These are the goals that, if not met, […]
Seeing Dogs: The Highlight of Eleanor’s First Day in Florence (Summer 2009)
A couple of summers ago we spent a few weeks in Italy. The bulk of our time was spent in the Piedmont region, and I wrote an earlier entry about visiting the 13th century fortress above the small village of Vogogna where we stayed. This brief video captures the end of our first day in […]