Step 1: Know Your User It’s the third week of November. Report cards are just finished looming, piles of marking are stacking up, students...
Community Engaged Learning on a Farm in Brooklyn Every year, I take my Grade 12 Green Industries students to NYC for a weekend of experiential learning about...
The Stars Aligned: Advice for Cohort 21 Yesterday, my Mom sent me a text message with the above image attached. She had pulled it from...
#TeachCities: NYC Edition Why should we #teachcities to young people? For me, today was a perfect illustration of how the city,...
The Classroom Where Anything is Possible At the end of the school year in June, and again this September, I had the great pleasure of...
Moving Forward, Looking Back Today I went for my first long bike ride of the season. I’ve been riding all winter long, so...
Lessons from Building a House: Stalling, Failing, Stressing and Making a Mess. As many of you know, over the past nine months, my husband and I have completely gutted and rebuilt...
Bring it Back: Design Thinking + Teacher Growth Over the past several months, I have been thinking and talking with colleagues about how I will “bring it...
Catching Up Is Hard To Do How can it possibly be March 3rd already? It feels like only yesterday it was December and I was...
What Can Friday Night Lights Teach Us About Learning? As I mentioned in my last post, I have decided to focus my action plan on using online tools...
An Equation for Effective PD Don’t we all wish it was August again? Fresh faced from the summer, we were full of piss n’...
Can Technology Cure #FOMO? How many times in your life have you wanted to be in two places at once? We have all...
How Cohort 21 Can Make You Grittier. Today was the first official day of classes at school after a thoroughly exhausting and simultaneously energizing hiking trip...
Continuity and Change “Your job is to change the world, okay?” – Dr. Pearl Rock Kane on redefining the perception of what...
Affirm, Challenge, Repeat. The past three days have been a bit of a roller coaster for me here at the Klingenstein Summer...
What is Thinking? In my last post, I wrote about my aspiration of developing a culture of thinking in my students. But...