Connie Weber

The first pictures are of the current week's projects, an overview, and then records of a few discussions we've had in class, about the Big Ideas for the year. The rest of the photos are from a project that goes with our group reading of Finn Family Moomintroll, a fantasy by Tove Jansson. The exercise that's shown here is the result of a Project Zero approach, a Thinking Skills Routine called Headlines. How the students loved it!

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This morning I got to engage in my idea of bliss, start off the day with a peak experience.

Running along the country road, a brisk morning, beautiful misty sunrise... I was wearing earphones, listening to NPR's Open Mic Discussion, and who should be doing the interview but Will Wright, one of the most important game-designers ever. And who should he be interviewing but E. O. Wilson, one of the most important naturalists of all time. Just listening to them talk, what a privilege....

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Deborah Meier for solid feet-on-the-ground perspective: know what matters, which is relationships and their processes. Working together within the purposefulness and messiness of democracy.

Carol Dweck because she makes is absolutely clear that how you think about yourself as a learner may be the most import… Continue

Hmmm.... maybe the word should be something other than "framing." I plan to network it, synergize it, make it a web. I won't box it in but will have central themes. I'll let the study be the way William C. Morse proposed: ameboid. It changes shape as it goes--gets long and narrow in some points, rounded and thick in others.

The central theme is (drum roll, please, it took me weeks to arrive at this):

Change.

Hanging onto that theme is a huge look back: evolution/life history.

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