It’s a Really Big Show Coming Up – Andrew Kern

You see, there’s this guy and he and I have this internet radio conference not on tv kind of show thing that we call the Pluto and Plato Show. And now we have an awesome guest signed on for Sept. 25. Andrew Kern is going to talk with us about how to lead [...]

Sources for Conversation

I am always looking for things that will spark more discussion about good, true, and beautiful education. Here are two spots on the web worthy of conversation:
Andrew Kern’s Foundational Principles
Andrew Campbell’s Ordering Principles
Give both a good read and keep the conversation going…

A Day in K

There is a certain atomic type of energy in a kindergarten classroom. I noticed it the very first time I ever entered such a room back when I was a lowly rookie teacher. By atomic I literally mean that each student is an atom that is seeking to move, to evidence Brownian motion, [...]

A Day in the Life (with apologies to the Fab Four)

I am trying new things all the time. I love new ideas. I especially love to try things that seem a little out of the box because I love to see things from new angles. All that to explain why I would possibly wish to spend a whole day acting like a [...]

Guorian, Chapter 1

The following ideas came out of our first (and only formal) discussion of “Tending the Heart of Virtue.” I may not have remembered them all, so by all means, faculty, chime in using the “Comments” section.
We started by reading the recent blog by Andrew Kern on Fairy Tales
We wondered together about common objections to [...]

Tending a Garden of Virtue

If you are not familiar with Vigen Guorian’s work, Tending the Heart of Virtue, read it. Now.
If you are, then you may be interested to check back in from time to time here as I blog on the experience of taking my faculty through Vigen’s book. We have chosen up teams of three [...]