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Week One Is Just Week One

This post originally appeared on Medium. Week One Is Just Week One. There will be Time.  There will be time. Talk to them. Laugh with them. Listen to them. Watch them. Hear them. Consider them. Start...

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New Year, New Life

New Year, New Life This post originally appeared on Medium. New Year, New Life Image from Central Maine News...

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Accept, Communicate, Trust: Building School Culture Through Improv

Accept, Communicate, Trust: Building School Culture Through Improv It isn’t about being funny. Even if not on stage, students and educators are always improvising, making things up as we go. Photo by...

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How I Got to Now and What I Intend to Do About It

This Post Originally Appeared on Medium How I Got to Now and What I Intend to Do About It How I Got to Now and What I Intend to Do About It . . . my nerdy roots and that which got Continue reading How...

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Shape of a Sonnet: Empathy Fueled, Maker Driven Poetry Analysis (VIDEO)

I’m going to write up more proper context for this in the near future, but I wanted to share these Periscope videos from my AP Lit class this past week while it was still fresh.   I love my classroom...

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How Might We the Content?: Design Thinking in a High School English Classroom

How Might We the Content?: Applying Design Thinking in a High School English Classroom Empathy-fueled, human-centered problem solving is picking up tremendous traction as of late, thanks in no small...

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Improv & the Innovative Mindset: a SXSWEdu Workshop

I make things up. We all do. Typically, I make things up to entertain my students. I tell them stories of my four-year-old arguing immigration policy with our server at the local wings joint and of our...

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What 20 Minutes and a Culture of Critical Creativity Can Do

Far from perfect, we have continued to fall forward . . .   In twenty minutes, we went from analysis to synthesis to inventionist, creating constructs from Little Bits that demonstrate how the core...

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Making Meaning Out of Empathy & Anything

I recently had the good fortune to work alongside Denver’s Imaginarium with a group of amazing students from Denver Public Schools, ranging from sixth to eleventh grade, all there to help shape what...

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How Might An Empathetic Peg Find Its Role in Educational Leadership?

How Might An Empathetic Peg Find Its Role in Educational Leadership? An ENFP Reflects Photo by Dmitry Ratushny for Unsplash A true free spirit? Hardly. A brief history of my experience with the...

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