Category: Education

  • what would Dr. Peter Gray’s, “What Einstein, Twain, & Forty Eight Others Said About School” sound like sourced from my library?

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    An exercise published at https://www.self-directed.org/tp/re-directed-attention/ in November of 2019. That version was beautifully staged by the TP editors with pull-quotes and photos of the book covers! As my notes of quotes to add to the next version keep piling, sharing the original here… ——- Marie Ponsot-Rosemary Deen Marie Ponsot-Rosemary Deen, Beat Not the Poor Desk…

  • Opening the Conversation on Reopening Schools

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    I’m listening, from the part of occupied Lenape lands called New York City, from East Harlem where the sirens and refrigerator trucks left and left us pandemic poverty without resolving the struggles of redlining and gentrification that were here before them. I’m listening, by which I also mean reading and watching, as the conversations of…

  • Virtual Storytime

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    The ALC Network has a #bookchats book club that I’ve been part of since it started a year and a half ago. It’s been awesome: we’ve mostly picked books I love and the people who join the weekly call are folks I’m always glad to have check-in time with. My only previous experiences with book…

  • Play Futures Webinar

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    There’s a 12 year old at the Agile Learning Center who has been updating me on her growing interest in elementary education. So when I got an invitation from Play Futures to get a recording of their webinar on “Why Play Matters,” I asked the kid if she’d be interested in watching it with me.…

  • Agile, Culture Creation, and Self-directed Community

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    This post shares a long draft of an essay which later became an article published in the Cutter business journal’s 2019 special issue on applications of Agile. I’d been asked to share about the Change-Up process, and I’m grateful for folks across the network sending stories so I could include use cases from a variety…