November 2015 – Compose Our World

November 21, 2015 / Karla Scornavacco

Yale, Yale…You Ain’t So Far Away

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about events unfolding at Yale University and the ties to our Lucas project, as I am often drawn to events that stir up passion about education and equity, and surface what are often untested assumptions of the lives of…

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November 17, 2015 / See Author(s) Below

Process Through A Playlist

By Ashley Seidel Potvin and Rebecca G. Kaplan Inspired by this recent blog post, we (Ashley and Becca) thought we’d try to take up the final question the blog author posed, “Do you consume or do you create?” We decided to take on a create…

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November 13, 2015 / Antero Garcia

We Do This, This Is What We Do

We’ve now been designing for more than three months as a part of this project and I occasionally wonder if we have a clear sense of who we are designing for or for what purposes. For example, when I was a high school teacher, every class…

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November 6, 2015 / Karla Scornavacco

Curriculum is Overrated

“Curriculum is overrated,” said Rick, a former superintendent of a larger, low-income school district in Colorado. He was speaking to a group of future school leaders enrolled in a principal licensure program. Rick was a whiz with one-liners, “we are a system of compliance, not…

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November 5, 2015 / See Author(s) Below

Diving Into Social & Emotional Learning

By Cecilia Valenzuela and Rebecca G. Kaplan “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge” Audre Lorde, 2004 It’s difficult to describe “social and emotional learning” (SEL). We know empathy, collaboration and reflection are important, but these are not concepts we can…

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Month: November 2015

Yale, Yale…You Ain’t So Far Away

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Process Through A Playlist

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We Do This, This Is What We Do

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Curriculum is Overrated

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Diving Into Social & Emotional Learning

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