Teaching and Learning
Discussing a Framework for Inspiring Inventiveness
A group of educators from around the world gathered in a Zoom room with Mara Krechevsky, Ben Mardell, Susan MacKay, and me to explore the…
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Setting the Table: Graphite
School is oftentimes a place where certainty reigns – but it can be a place where people develop comfort with uncertainty. New experiences with the…
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Inventology: Book Club Discussion, Introduction and Parts 1 & 2
As indicated in the intro post, this round’s Opal School Book Club pick is Pagan Kennedy’s Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change The…
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Read With Us! Inventology
Recently, we invited folks from around the world to join us in an Opal School Book Club. We shared insights from Ann Pelo and Margie…
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Inspiring Agents of Change
If we do organize the study of serendipity, it will always be a whimsical undertaking, given that the phenomenon is difficult to define, amazingly variable…
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Setting the Table: Big World
The “Setting the Table” series explores ways to engage the arts as languages for thinking and expression. This episode considers how dramatic play invites children…
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How can we step out of our comfort zones to think critically about stories of injustice?
In the Willow Community of fourth- and fifth-graders this year, one big question we are chewing on is: How might we raise a generation of…
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From Teaching to Thinking: Book Club Conversation
Opal School hosted a conversation about the book From Teaching to Thinking: A Pedagogy for Reimagining Our Work with readers and authors Ann Pelo and…
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Developing Norms for Ambiguity and Complexity
This presentation, provided by Kerry Salazar at our October 2019 professional development retreat, is available to watch here.
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Human Knots and Tangles
The Sitka Community’s year started in a unique position: all of the students and the teacher had a history of being together. Although this group…
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