The author reflects on the past year while contemplating four foundational questions regarding education, joy, humanity, and community. Transitioning to the role of Executive Director at Walkabout Education has emphasized the significance of authentic learning experiences. Looking ahead to 2025, they aim to foster meaningful connections and rethink educational spaces to support student development.
“A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it.” – Mike Rose, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us I have been engaged in the educational technology landscape for over a decade. From the very beginning of the advent of “Web 2.0,” I was caught up in…
In the Spring of 2020, only a few weeks after schools closed for the pandemic, I got the exciting call offering me the Director of Educational Technology at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. At the time, we all figured the pandemic would peak by July and school closures seemed temporary and short-lived. Slowly, though, school…
Dear Senator Casey, As you gear up for the confirmation hearing of Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos, I ask you to consider the deep implications of what her vision for education entails. I recently read a piece by Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, touting the ways in which DeVos has worked to improve education for…
Definition from Oxford Dictionaries This past week I have been spending a lot of time with some really smart educators from all over the country. While the premise of this convening was the enormous edtech conference, ISTE, I spent less time talking about tech tools and awesome apps and more time talking about equity, school…
Z loves everything about the planets, the stars, black holes, and anything Space-related. He can rattle off facts and is a very bright child. He is also disorganized, can lose focus easily and works fairly slowly. In a nutshell, he doesn’t “play school” well, but in a different learning environment, he’d thrive. T is bright…