What would we think if our school leader stood up and admitted, “We have always said we really trust all of our faculty and staff, but the fact is that we don’t”? What if our schools are fundamentally organized in ways that conflict with our most basic wishes and aspirations? What if we knew that [...]
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For the first couple of chapters of Warren Berger's wonderful book A More Beautiful Question, I was selfishly angry and jealous. So much of his writing seemed straight out of my own mind and thought process, starting nearly three decades ago; why had I not written this book myself? Why did I not have the [...]
What are you doing June 10-11 and June 25-26? At home? Re-bounding from the end of the school year? Want to join some super talented colleagues and energizing conference sessions from the comfort of your sofa? Lurk and work with us at these two events via Twitter. If you have not remotely participated in a [...]
Last week, colleague Glenn Whitman at St. Andrew's Episcopal shot out an email to a number of us asking for recommendations for good summer reading reflections for his faculty. I thought I would compile the responses as I know this is going to add to my own iPad library this summer. Also, for any of [...]
Is it the natural end of a somewhat off-the-grid vacation on tropical islands and rain forest pathways? Or is it that my friends around the world care deeply about education and that the themes of our times are universal and pressing? Some of both. In the last two days, as I wind down this wonderful [...]
What is "off the grid"? Time to relax? Reflect? Deflect? Unwind, evolve, devolve, assemble, dissemble? When I stop long enough to see the tide go out and come back in the same day, I am reminded that the same sea, albight in a different configuration of land masses and depths, has washed around the earth for [...]
The opening line of a short story I wrote many years ago: "It is not easy getting to Antulang. Thank God for that." In 1982 I spent most of Holy Week with friends camped on a lonely beach at the end of a horrible dirt road an hour south of Dumaguete, a spot ignored by [...]
How can we travel from one side of the Pacific to the other in just half a day? How can a small city in a developing country have evolved in just two decades to a place of smart phones, fast food, and internet cafes? How can those same artifacts of the flat, modern world exist [...]
I will be a bit off the grid for two weeks; heading to Dumaguete City on Negros Island in the Central Philippines. Many of you know that I have led student trips there for the past six years; no longer doing that with Francis Parker School, but still very much involved in their trip planning [...]