Next academic year’s incoming high school class will be the first to graduate on the other side of 2030. This matters because the year carries an unusual symbolic weight, perhaps greater than any other date in lived memory, even 2000. 2030. It is, in one sense, an arbitrary marker, a new decade in the Common [...]
There’s a difference between reform and experiments in schools. Reform legitimizes and justifies schools as existing structures. Experiments exploit cracks, creating flows that wash away sediment and make space for new worlds to emerge.Reform means to “take new form,” but only within the logic of old forms. It sees cracks and tries to patch them [...]
What if we stopped talking about neurodiversity and started considering bodymind complexities? This shift might help us avoid superficial labels, honor the agency of relationships, and recognize that it’s not all in our heads.Let’s break this down.Diversity suggests there are many different kinds of people. Of course, that’s true. But let’s not be reductionist. Framing [...]
Regenerative education rejects the old ways of assessing students as individuals, considering skills as ends, and allowing projects to languish on the Google drive. Instead, it invites us to listen deeply to the voices in our community (human and other-than-human) who have engaged with and been affected by each project. Regenerative education calls for new [...]
The idea that tariffs are bad is so deeply ingrained, saying anything else sounds absurd. We are so bought into the dominant narrative that we don't question this. Yet tariffs might just be what help create regenerative futures inspired by Nature. I am not saying that Trump's blanket tariffs make any sense or are designed [...]
Many of us think of sustainability as finding equilibrium. Let’s be carbon neutral. If we take stuff, we need to make sure to replenish materials. Let’s leave the planet in as good condition as we found it. Sustainability often means shooting for zero. The Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report Our Common Future, popularized sustainability as “meeting [...]
This post was published on IntrepidEd News on 26 August 2024. My family and I travel to Paris every other year to visit my mother. We spend a week there, then take the train to the West Midlands in England to visit Charlotte’s parents. These trips are a mix of the familiar and the new: [...]
This article was posted on IntrepidEd News on 23 March 2023. I sometimes wonder whether reading is the cause of my insomnia. Reading is often what people do to help them fall asleep, but in my case it wakes me up. I can’t remember the last time I slept past 5:15. That feels luxurious. Getting [...]
This article was published in IntrepidEd News on 5 May 2023. [T]he only true atom is the universe—that total system of interdependent "thing-events" which can be separated from each other only in name.—Alan Watts Regenerative practice can never be achieved or ticked off a list. Regenerative practice is just that, practice. Regeneration is dynamic and [...]
Coconut Thinking 