This past month I spent time at two programs working hard to keep parents engaged in their children’s education. Wickliffe and Barrington Informal Programs, part of the Upper Arlington School District near Columbus Ohio, and Ann Arbor Open in Ann … Continue reading
The Chicago Teachers Union rallied on March 10 in opposition to ISAT testing. Joined by parents and students, teachers are boycotting the tests at several schools. The district is threatening teachers with loss of certification, and bullying and intimidating parents … Continue reading
One of my favorite events these last few years since I retired is the annual meeting of the North Dakota Study Group. The name confuses the uninitiated. In its first years the gathering was held at the University of North … Continue reading
Dec 27 at 7pm find us on KBDI channel 12 in Denver, or set your recording unit to 3am Dec28 for the rebroadcast. Dec 29 at 4pm it plays on WQED Pittsburg, and again on Dec 30 at 2:30 pm! … Continue reading
More than 550 organizations and 18,000 individuals have signed the National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. How about you? We encourage organizations and individuals to publicly endorse it, with a letter to the editor, a tweet or other social media comment, or … Continue reading
A particular train of thought began with listening to physicist Fritjof Capra talk on NPR about Leonardo Da Vinci. For Capra, Leonardo’s genius (and that of others who we so identify) is closely tied to insatiable curiosity, combined with highly … Continue reading
We now have a version of August To June with French, Spanish, and German subtitles! Huge thanks needs to go to Gabriel Pannwitz and Gabi Friedrich. Gabriel contacted me in June of 2012. Before he’d seen more than the website … Continue reading
The conversation was hitting me with particular relevance because of an encounter the night before, after showing August To June. It was with a young woman who had previously taught in a small east coast independent school, and was in … Continue reading
Warning: today’s entry is for those who want a glimpse behind the scenes in a documentary filmmaker’s nuts and bolts world. In 2009 I began blogging to chronicle my filmmaking learning curve as I helped Tom make a film out … Continue reading
So far the one hour version of AUGUST TO JUNE has been programmed by stations in North Carolina, Rhode Island, Ohio, Nevada, Missouri, Alaska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Oregon, Florida and California. That still leaves 39 states to go. I can … Continue reading