Blog | Damian Rentoule

Curiosity and language learning

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

A child’s world

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

How do you find out that you can’t build a chicken coop?

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

Portfolios - A very tricky, simple idea.

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

Long Live the Peace Poets

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

True Misconceptions: Multi-tasking and concentration

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

Why get your feet wet?

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

Intersecting Lives - Ideas from tangled paths

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...