Great question but is it too huge, too much, too broad? We all want to know something about what happened while we are apart. We all want to learn more about the thoughts of the people we love. We all…
The Language of Misconceptions
There are beliefs and stories and there are scientific realities and principles. When we attempt scientific explanations we must take care not to use words that are specifically human: try, want, love, like. Stating that a stream of water likes…
Childhood is for Exploring
Childhood must be a protected time to flourish, to explore, to discover a variety of solutions, to wonder, to investigate, to test and fail without being admonished. The biological purpose of a long childhood developed as we learned to adapt…
Sharing Molly Worthen Words
"Teaching it is not a cheap or efficient process. It does not come from trying to educate the most students at the lowest possible cost or from emphasizing short, quantifiable, standardized assignments at the expense of meandering, creative and difficult…