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  • Spoonflower Sidequest

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    As long as the sidequest isn’t just a procrastination or avoidance tactic (ahem), I always try to lean into it! Doing so over the years has been key to keeping myself creative and stretching. Often the sidequests are related to my work. I scope out prospective field trips, write resource guides, learn skills I can…

  • First 30 Days of School

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    It’s year… 13. And I’m grateful to have new staff in both schools prompting me to reflect and share more about the foundations of facilitation. For myself, I used to keep a notebook with checklists for each phase of the school year, but I upgraded to using Trello in 2016. I have a “Run [Org.…

  • Summer 2024 ALC Gathering Reflections, Part 2

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    Reflections are in from some of the 35 folks who gathered at ALC-NYC from July 11th through July 19th for our summer programming! We used the structure of 3 open space practice days, 1 rest day, and then 5 days with kids from the school community running a Bonus School experience. Folks were, as in…

  • Summer 2024 ALC Gathering Reflections!

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    In June, 23 people gathered for an 8 day learning lab at the Heartwood Agile Learning Center. The hosting team included adults from Heartwood and from ALC-NYC, as well as 3 kids from Heartwood. My pre-covid summer gatherings were designed as 3 training days + 5 practice days with local ALC kids joining to do…

  • The internet is for cats (?!)

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    Usually I take a break by switching tasks. What I have lined up to switch to as I prep back-to-school documents is a somewhat more creative writing task: crafting reflection documents about the ALC events I just wrapped up. This is the next ideal task. I love to make sense of fresh, recent insights just…