Small Schools Coalition Education Blog
Real Teachers: The Experts in the Room
I spent thirteen years in universities, across three different universities, spending my bottom dollar in pursuit of one thing: teaching as a craft. Not a diploma. Not prestige. Craft. The art and discipline of teaching and learning — not just standing at the front of...
Embracing Polarization in Education Today: Leadership, Censorship, and the Price of Silence
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”— Attributed to Plato, The Republic This quote, attributed to Plato in The Republic, famously explores the consequences of disengagement from governance and public life. The...
School Choice: Are You Part of a National Movement?
Many of you reading this column (thank you!) are independent or private school families. And you may be caught in a dilemma you might not have thought much about. You love that you can choose the schooling that suits your family values. You probably even made peace...
Two Vagabonds
Troubadour Carriers of the Teaching Tradition Sunday It was an Irish folk musician alongside his partner, a California multi-instrumentalist, performing a Sunday afternoon concert in the assembly room at the Pilgrim Church in Carlsbad. Just the photo of their...
A Quality of Sanctuary: The Grauer’s Gorilla
George Schaller was unique because he never carried a gun. Others before him entered African gorilla country with trepidation and suspicion, armed and prepared for confrontation. But Schaller stepped into those forests and lowlands the way great teachers enter a...
The Quiet of the Arctic (A Meditation/Story)
“This stillness and quiet and repose of the soul are a great blessing.” — St. Teresa of Avila When was the last time you put your mind and heart into something — when your mind and heart were completely aligned, and became the same? Full immersion, the experience of...