In this new year many of us have promised ourselves to try and find more balance in our lives. I personally vowed to spend more time connected with the earth and growing things through hiking, walking on the beach, and playing hard with my four 20-something kids. And yet with all of the meaningful w...

I have been spending some time recently responding to a listserv discussion that has many brilliant, award winning teachers on it who are not sold on the idea that we really are going to have to change education to remain relevant; that *they* are going to have to change.  I thought I would sha...

Interesting discussion over on Student 2.0 by Sean (the bass player) a student in Scotland and a group of teachers. The post was inspired from some well meant questions from a caring American adult (teacher) who was chatting with Sean at 1:30am (Scotland). I think it was more the perceived inference...