Sustainably Digital

I haven’t been utilizing this blog to great effect lately. I consider this a place to air ideas I’m formulating, put my reflections down in writing, and share items that I’ve found noteworthy. However, my less-than-regular posting schedule the last couple months has seen many ideas, reflections, and noteworthy items come and go without being [...]

Deborah Meier: “There’s too often a very off-putting kindergarten teacher’s voice, and so on all the way through the grades. I catch myself speaking that way on occasion. What would schools be like, I imagine, if we learned to use our conversational adult voice within its four walls. It might immediately remind us that we [...]

Do you remember your first day in high school? Perhaps you were in a new building- more likely than not surrounded by many new, unfamiliar, and large faces? I vaguely remember being excited, yet apprehensive and anxious. Would I be able to hack it? Would I make some good friends? Would it be a fun [...]

Rocks If you poll my students on what they feel is the most boring subject matter in geology, you would almost certainly hear: “rocks.” Let’s face it, even for this teacher with a degree in geology, rocks aren’t the most compelling of subjects. Now, let’s imagine you need to cover a whole assortment of technical [...]

There’ s a school in them there Woods. Matt Schlein raised the funds to purchase 260 acres of land and open the Walden Project- an innovative high school where class is held outdoors (except for when they have it in a motley-looking tent). The curriculum is based around Thoreau’s writing, but by no means is [...]