What You Can Do Right Now To Defeat Trump
(Updated 9/29/20) Act now: this election will be scarily close. Another four years of Donald Trump is unthinkable; but I
Category: Education
A Fork In The Road: The Future Of Innovation In Education
I was asked to be on a panel this week about innovation in education. Here’s some thoughts: Hi everyone –
Imagine If Climate Threat Education Was As Good (And Global) As These Coronavirus Posters?
The world’s governments are moving quickly to educate people about the Covid-19 coronavirus; specifically: 1) how to tell the symptoms;
Academic Performance Trends For Berkeley’s Middle Schools, By Student Subgroup
Update: Read Berkeleyside’s Jan. 28, 2020 deep dive on the situation at Longfellow. For those who saw my previous post
Academic Performance At Longfellow Middle School Has Plummeted, While Willard and King Thrive
Update: Read Berkeleyside’s Jan. 28, 2020 deep dive on the situation at Longfellow. Dec. 15, 2019 – The latest school
Climate Escape Room: Make Your Own Fun Group CO2 Learning Game
Last week at the Getting To Zero (carbon) conference I played an excellent group game that showed how with a
Restorative Justice, And That Thing I Stole When I Was A Teenager
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about restorative justice… the idea that harms done can be repaired, through encounters among
Save Those Rejection Letters
“You don’t seem cut out for business.” That’s what some guy from Harvard Business School essentially told me when I
Celebrating The Early Quizlet Team
The early Quizlet team was awesome. We bootstrapped the company for almost a decade, with a small, scrappy, team that
Are Teachers And Journalists On The Same Wild Ride?
They’re facing a lot of change, and the same tough questions. Google ‘what do teachers and journalists have in common’
For A Fun, Educational Project, Build This Cardboard Pinball Machine
What can America do with its mountains of recycled cardboard? Make educational toys, that’s what! Last week, in Burlington, Vermont,
What If We’d Spent $1.7 Trillion On Education, Instead Of The Iraq War?
Fourteen years after the war in Iraq started, the New York Times is now reporting that Iran has essentially taken over
Why I Admire Khan Academy
Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach and I visited Khan Academy today to have lunch with their new COO Ginny Lee, who
Words to Work By, Revisited
Just came across this list I wrote for the Quizlet company handbook in 2010. I was trying to convey some of
An Afternoon of Design Ideas
Just went to a very cool afternoon of presentations at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation on the Berkeley campus.
How Pilates Got Huge: It Went Open Source
If you want to start a trend that goes from obscure to ubiquitous seemingly overnight, open it up wide. Case
Why I’m Buying Books
I’ve been on a strange book-buying binge over the past few weeks. The paper kind. Almost 100 books and counting.
Why the Best Learning Tools for the Next Generation Should Be Free
In the 1860s, Joseph Dixon invented a cost-effective way to mass produce graphite pencils, which previously had been costly and
The Power of Staying Power: Pete Seeger Never Stopped Teaching
[The following is an email I sent out to my team a few days after Pete Seeger’s death on January