The question in education right now is not whether alternative models work from a results stand-point. There are lots of compelling stories about students from environments like High Tech High, …
Business Models and Scarcity
The uncertainty around funding and the ever-changing rules of the funders force so many community based organizations to play from a place of scarcity. You end up reinforcing the issues you seek …
Accepting Experience
“The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” Mark Manson writes in his …
The Formalities
It's graduation season and we're all out in bleachers, overlooking turf fields as music plays, speeches are made and graduates walk across a stage. As I sat through a graduation, I wondered a lot …
Managing a Freelancer Mindset
After working full time for Dual School from February 2018 to January 2022, I was accustomed to having a full time job. I had some flexibility of working remotely and taking time off when needed, but …
Business Models of Community Space
Everyone is searching for belonging. Oftentimes it comes in the spaces we visit and inhabit. For younger people faced with stagnant wages, and skyrocketing real estate prices, many of us live in …