Starting in 1964 and stopping full time involvement in 2011, I worked with three types of schools that “educate” most of the K-12 children in the United States – public, private and charter which is a public school of choice. Approximately 1,770,000 students are home schooled. As we approach the end of another academic
There is a well-documented article in the June 4-11, 2018 issue of The New Yorker Magazine by Jelani Cobb about white spaces where many of us have lived and worked: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/starbucks-and-the-issue-of-white-space The issue of racism, especially implicit bias, goes largely unnoticed until it is brought into our consciousness by some of the events which we
Everyone has an “auto-biography” whether or not it is written down in words. How we live our lives, what Annie Dillard calls how we “spend” our days is how we “spend” our lives. I want to suggest that instead of thinking of this time, (past, present and future), as spending, we think of it as
From time to time, I think about time. We use time as if it were a commodity, even talk about how we spend it. The sun, moon and stars are better keepers of time than we are and I believe the indigenous peoples were onto this long before we invented clocks and attempted to regulate
(Published originally February 18, 2018) Imagine the following conversation: You: You worked 50 years and only learned 10 lessons? Me: Well, actually, I’m still working and I’m still learning. You: What do you mean, you’re still working? Me: What I said, I’m still working. I’m teaching, consulting, counseling, writing, speaking, doing whatever I want to
