It's the Dual School Spring Exhibition! 30 Students from 9 local high schools will present their projects to address pressing social problems like mental health in schools, sustainable energy …
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Project-based
I heard an important distinction yesterday about project-based learning: The project is not the assessment. The project is the learning. It's not about learning content for 80% of the year and then …
Famous to who?
Famous to some means nothing to others. Above some level of skill and talent is an "irrational" feeling. An emotional connection, a nostalgic longing. To the newcomer, with no history, it's not all …
Tools and rituals
Tools are only as valuable as the rituals we build around them. If everyone on the team downloads Slack but doesn't open it, there's no point. It could be the best communication method possible, but …
The pulse of engagement
If we took a random poll of students all throughout the US and asked "on a scale of 1-10 how connected do you feel to your passion?" what would we find? Would we find higher numbers in some pockets …
Don’t defeat yourself
Reflecting on my TEDx experience, highlighted in my newsletter a couple weeks ago, I realized the lesson. Don't defeat yourself. I had the whole thing memorized. I knew it cold. But i froze on stage …