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Today while visiting my mother-in-law, we somehow got on the conversation of her childhood growing up in Scranton PA during the 1950’s and 1960’s. She recalled how many people’s homes collapsed into sink holes because of the miles and miles of mining tunnels that had been dug underneath the town.  According to her, the minersContinue reading “Robbing the Pillars”

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Most people think of the “arts” as something they do once a week in a special class or that fun activity a teacher pulls out on a rainy Friday afternoon. But the importance of encouraging creativity and imagination through artistic or play based experiences (to name only two) goes well beyond Howard Gardner’s application ofContinue reading “The Closing of the Creative Mind”

This first entry is dedicated to an essay I wrote over ten years ago. One of my first ever as a doctoral student. The essay that awakened my alchemical self as writer, educator, and activist. Educational transformation, for the individual, and for us all as a collective whole, is like the spiral of the shell:Continue reading “Spiral of the Shell”