As I struggle to wrap my head around a profound sense of loss—loss of optimism, loss of a sense of safety, and loss of a (naïve?) sense that we are all in this together—I find myself looking for proof of connection. How can we muster the connection and sense of...
Who is the Teacher? This is a question that has been answered by the machine that is education in a way that is worrisome and limiting. So limiting that teachers have lost the flexiblity to respond generatively to major challenges to the system (think COVID times). It...
When the occupying troops left Reggio Emilia, Italy, after World War II, the citizens of the city considered what to do with the proceeds from the sale of the few tanks and horses the Germans left behind. The men wanted to build a movie theater. The women, a school....
We find ourselves today in a sea of conflict, fed by intentional othering and motivated by fear. Some are so afraid they will be left out that they wrap narrow affiliations around themselves and create their identities within those narrow bonds (powell and Menendian,...
This is the third blog post in the Reclaiming Joy series. I am only in the classroom as a pedagogical companion/consultant now. But I do remember: for me, teaching often felt like play…fluid, creative, guided by flexibility of thinking and mental rules, and...
