Courtesy of Kansas State University Anthropology professor Michael Wesch, in a talk that is beautiful, moving, and deeply insightful.
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To Reconnect With Nature, We Need More Organizations Like This One
Two years ago, I visited Indonesia to walk the inimitable bamboo hallways of the Green School, as part of a lifelong search for the best schools in the world.
Almost immediately after arriving, however, I met Tim Fijal — a transplanted Canadian and gentle spirit whose own journey of discovery had gradually taken him out of the classroom, and into the rice fields of Bali.
Since then, we produced a short film about Tim’s work with a mixture of Balinese adults and young people to use the natural world as an invitation back into the core of human identity (you can see it below) — and Tim has launched a new organization, The Astungkara Way, which provides a combination of courses and experiences to help people reconnect with nature.
And now, to make that dream a full-fledged reality, Tim needs your support.
I hope you’ll do so here. And please, help spread the word!
This is how we #changethestory
Diverse by Design: Episode 4 (Out of Many)
Fifty years of research suggest that one of the most important things we can do to promote social mobility in America is to give all children a chance to go to socioeconomically and racially integrated schools.
Why, then, are there so few that do?
In the final episode of this four-part series, two of Crosstown High’s students explain in their own words why their school’s diversity may be its most valuable factor — and challenge the rest of us to follow suit.
We’re making a TV show — and this is our first series trailer
The world is changing. How can we make it better?
This is Better World — coming in 2020.
A new film about what saves us
What saves us? What connects us? And what is it that allows people to feel like they belong to something (and/or someone) larger than themselves?
Our newest film for 180 Studio, “Nuestra,” tells the story of how a father’s tragic loss — the death of his teenage daughter — leads to the birth of a school that helps get troubled teens across Puerto Rico back on track, in the name of the daughter whose life could not be saved.
To learn more about this remarkable school, Nuestra Escuela, visit nuestraescuela.org.
Why do we have 180 days of school?
School’s out for summer again.
Why is that, exactly?
The answer is in our newest #AskWhy video — and it might surprise you.
WHY DO WE STILL TREAT EDUCATION LIKE IT’S 1906?
Why do we still use a 19th-century invention— The Carnegie Unit—to determine if our kids are ready to graduate in 2019?
Also, what the heck is a Carnegie Unit?
Watch the latest video in our #AskWhy series — a series that has now been viewed by more than ten million of you — to find out.
The same way may not be the best way.
Diverse by Design: Episode 3 (Never Teach Alone)
Powerful learning is a relational act; it never occurs alone.
Why, then, do we expect our teacher to hone their craft in isolation?
In episode 3 of the four-part series, Diverse by Design, we meet two of Crosstown High’s inaugural class of teachers, and learn why they believe that co-teaching is the only way to go. So be prepared: their perspective may change the way you think about the future of learning — and what it will require.
Diverse by Design: Episode 2 (Project Based Learning)
How active should learning be? How relevant? And what is required of adults if they are serious about expecting that kids will have a different experience — and a different feeling — in that thing we call ‘school’?
In a new four-part series from 180 Studio, we witness one community’s efforts to answer those questions.
In the city of Memphis, in a formerly abandoned Sears warehouse, a new school, Crosstown High, is aspiring to model something that hasn’t been seen before — a version of school that looks nothing like the schools most of us attended or experienced, and an explicit commitment to weave together a community of young people who embody the full range of Memphis’s social, economic, and ethnic diversity.
This is Diverse by Design.
Diverse by Design: Episode 1 (The First Day of School)
How do you reimagine something that has looked the same for generations? And what does a diverse society require — and need — in order to support a shared commitment to the common good?
In a new four-part series from 180 Studio, we witness one community’s efforts to answer both questions.
In the city of Memphis, in a formerly abandoned Sears warehouse, a new school, Crosstown High, is aspiring to model something that hasn’t been seen before — a version of school that looks nothing like the schools most of us attended or experienced, and an explicit commitment to weave together a community of young people who embody the full range of Memphis’s social, economic, and ethnic diversity.
This is Diverse by Design. I hope you’ll watch, share, & comment . . .
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