The Art of Being Human is a collaborative yearlong exploration of one of the oldest and most urgent questions: What makes us human?
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Where Does Wisdom Come From?
This month, and I are exploring wisdom.
What makes someone wise? Where does wisdom come from? Can we define wisdom? What makes it ancient? What makes it modern?
Join us this month as we explore Wisdom.
More thoughts on Wisdom over at...
Tell Me About Yourself (In Five Paragraphs)
We spend many years in schools learning to identify the theme of someone else’s story. We learn to summarize an argument, cite the evidence, and organize our answers into five paragraphs.
The five paragraph essay never captures own own sto...
Are Humans Losing The Plot Of Our Own Story?
Watch this short video -- just 100 seconds long -- and be prepared to describe what you see:
You just watched a short film about bullying, didn’t you? The larger triangle was harassing the smaller triangle, until the two smaller shapes ban...
Stories of Serendipity
“Words, words, words . . .”
Sometimes, when a word doesn’t exist, you need to make it up.
It happened in 1754, when a man named Horace Walpole, in a letter to his friend Horace Mann (so many Horaces!), recounted a popular fairy tale, The...
Increasing the Surface Area for Serendipity
Where are you increasing the surface area for serendipity in your life? And what has found you lately that you weren’t looking for? Photos, poems, art, writing…
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I visit my local library, the Philadelphia C...
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Author, People-Based Learning: The Future of Learning is Human (2026). Learning scientist, school co-founder & illustrator. Reinventing research as a recovering academic. Investing in a people-based future.
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Education leader, writer & speaker. Exploring how to raise wise, loving, capable adolescents. Author of Finding the Magic in Middle School, founder of www.argonaut.school.
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