“Experiment” is a key organizational principle. We aim to get you trying new things right smack in the context of your living breathing day to day work.
We invite participants to experiment with the kinds of thinking they’ll eventually need to be effective at the next level, which we know by drawing on adult developmentally theory and leadership psychology.
it is ludicrously dangerous to bike for transportation in most of the country and yet people act like you’re demanding gold-plated streets when you ask for protected bike lanes
If we’re doing living wage discourse again I’ll reiterate that at a minimum anyone working a full time job should be able to own a house, a car, raise three kids, and take a two week vacation every year. If that sounds unreasonable its only because we let the wealthy decide it is
A lot of attention has been paid to Millennials and how it's hard for them. Meanwhile, Gen X is aging fast, getting close to a retirement that will not exist. In 20 years, it will be a full-blown crisis.
Some people think they’re communicating, when they’re actually making accusations or jumping to conclusions. If we want someone to listen us, their nervous system needs to be regulated and they have to feel safe.
Most kids can learn complex skills like reading, math - even physics and calculus - very quickly when, and if, they do it of their own volition.
People who believe teachers are the key to learning won't believe this, but the imposed artificiality of school obstructs learning.
When your child makes a decision which leads to a natural consequence, there’s no need to point it out or rub it in. The consequence is the lesson. A better approach is to help your child deal with the outcome. Help clean up the spill, navigate the apology, apply the bandaid.
A light bulb moment for me was realizing that much of the talk about student "motivation" (how to boost it or why a given kid lacks it) is really code for talking about compliance - that is, the extent to which students do whatever we tell them.