Headship grows harder every decade, every year. And this field needs talented leaders. It may be impossible to avoid the…
lifelong learning
During this music concert, tucked into my favorite back-row aisle seat, I’m carried away by these high schoolers’ earnest 1960s…
Learn to learn. That has been my educational philosophy all my life.
It was a book about a collective of children who survived the end of the world. Alone in a world…
It was less than graceful: slow, and cumbersome, but I did it, and then I did it again. Something inside…
In 1988, my school’s soccer team was supposed to be good, finally. Win a few games. Have a winning record.…
As my high school senior slowly accepts the possibility that she may fulfill her graduation credits through exclusively online classes,…
Up until about five years ago, I would regularly say, “I’m not a math person” or “I’m bad at math.”…
Every new cast I make holds the hope of a great fish; every new class I teach holds the hope…
What does it take to be as willing to change your own mind just as powerfully as you desire to…
It takes courage to lead in a new direction, and it takes humility to be a learner again. Adults work…
After trying and failing to learn something I had wanted to learn, I have to ask, if I can feel…
Inspired by Shonda Rhimes’s book Year of Yes, I decided to do something radical to celebrate my birthday a few…
