In recent years, I’ve learned that it’s not enough to have vision. In order to make it a reality, we…
If you read my earlier post on establishing a shared vision ahead of emergent curriculum design work, then you’ll be…
“We imagine a school in which students and teachers joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in search of projects built…
Last week, I shared some thoughts about emergent curriculum design and specifically, the important role that constraints might play in…
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to work through the design process and contemplate the relationship between making…
How might school leaders use this framework to design, launch, and work through varied iterations of their theories of change? How…
Over the several years, I’ve had the opportunity to begin designing emergent curriculum with several different groups of writing teachers.…
Schools have become increasingly skilled at gathering data about learners–particularly quantitative data in the form of standardized and local test…
It’s launch time in most of the schools that I support. Teachers are welcoming writers into new spaces, establishing routines,…