(Image: A surfer at Sunset Beach, Hawaii – not quite making it over. The waves would break just as well, even if she wasn’t there. Life...

(Image: Look at your reading selection. These happened to be sitting on my desk as I was writing. It’s an indication of the range of...

(Image: How much do we choose to reveal?) This hauntingly beautiful creature gave me a bit of a fright last summer on a trip to Australia...

Attempting to explain relationships between concepts that language ability does not accommodate – yet. (Image: An image by an anonymous...

(Image: My daughter, Abbie, wondering, but about what?) As adults – teachers and parents – it’s nearly impossible to imagine the world of...

I have the answer to this ancient mystery. You find out exactly half way through the construction process. That is, you find...

It seems that organizing a process in schools where students gather evidence of their learning and compile a #portfolio is very simple....

(Image: Soba, my old friend, watching us.) Yesterday, I sat quietly for two hours and listed to 70 Peace Poets (K-12) recite their...

I have just published my second novel, a much shorter process than the first, and in a recent conversation with Amy Burvall, digital...

One of the greatest things about working in a school is the array of activities you become involved in, the different situations you...

Passing through life, we try on a variety of roles that all connect in the most surprising ways. We don’t usually realize how they all...