I love goals and I love lists and I love tackling a huge, unknown expanse of social distancing by giving myself a big, challenging goal. I want to study math enough to pass the Math 7-12 Praxis test. I used to be a math teacher (and I was teaching a math intervention group at school …
I started working on my Master’s degree in Elementary Education in Fall 2018. I got in to the Teach For America Graduate Fellows Program, and it meant that I would have the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree and a social entrepreneurship project. Grants would cover my tuition and be available to fund my project. …
Last week, I started my summer fellowship at RePublic Schools! I’ve mostly been working at Smilow Prep, but I’m going to spend the majority of my time at ReImagine Prep, which was the first charter school to open in Mississippi. My fellowship is an operations position, and most of the work I’ve been doing is …
Source. I went to a lecture last week by Helen Mundler, who is a visiting professor to WMU. She spoke about the novels of Liz Jensen, specifically “The Rapture” and “cli-fi,” which is science fiction about climate change. Mundler started off her lecture by mentioning the way that Jensen tries to write without propoganda. To …
This is a woodblock print I made. I think this print might be the best thing I’ve made at design school.I love it. I was really busy this semester. Some of that was school, some of that was me, whatever. What’s important is that it’s over, and it’s summer now. Summer, for me, means that …
Anger is sometimes a good thing. Anger gets you fired up, gives you something in the world to change. This article made me angry. The gist of it is “The mystical creative monkey is a necessary evil in your business. Treat them just well enough to get a bare minimum of innovation out of them.” By “Creative …
On March 27, Sir Ken Robinson spoke at Grand Valley State University as a part of their community reading project, where students and faculty were encouraged to read his book, The Element. Robinson started by talking about his own experience with education, saying that he went to college at a time when college led straight …
Dale J. Stephens thinks that I should drop out of college. A little over a year ago, I found the UnCollege website, which Stephens started after he dropped out of college after his first semester. Stephens has been unschooled since he was in sixth grade, and he believes that it’s far more effective to …
Hello. I am Mr Stonebender. I’m writing a post for Samantha so she can go play in the woods for a while. Consider these: Awesome. The iPod, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Fine examples of their craft that have affected the world in fairly significant ways all around. Now consider this: Not Awesome. …