Wrestling With Student Achievement
I recently read of a school district seeking out those who wished to join a task force to help increase …
Tag Archives: schooling
Highly-Schooled but not Well-Educated
As many of you are well aware, an incident involving a member of the SAE fraternity and a racist chant …
Education and the Hero’s Journey
For almost fifteen years, I’ve taught Joseph Campbell’s idea of the Hero’s Journey to students through such epic tales as The …
Odyssey Leadership Academy Town Hall Meeting
As I wrote in a previous post, I have started walking out a dream for a school that embodies in the flesh …
Where Does the World Need You?
In a recent article in Cardus Comment Magazine titled, “Where Does the World Need Me?” folk from all walks of life gave their answer …
Schooling for the End of the World (where education and eschatology meet)
My previous post was actually a reposting of two separate posts (Embrace the End of the World and Educating for …
RePost: The End of the World
**My next post, Schooling for the End of the World (where schooling and eschatology meet), will be a philosophical theology of …
Speaking prophetically
In his seminal book on the subject, Abraham Heschel describes the prophet as one who is not as concerned with …
How Might We…?
Inspired by a recent blog post by a friend of mine doing amazing work in the field of communal philanthropy (Mike Zserdin, …
Beyond school reform
There is (and has been) much talk around the idea of “school reform” both in the educational and political arena. …
