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- Welcome to My Blog — October 12, 2010
- Gregory Bateson: An Introduction — October 13, 2010
- Disconnects -- A Brief Initial Exploration — October 14, 2010
- In the Heartlessland of America — October 14, 2010
- The Travesty of "Distance Education" — October 14, 2010
- Confusion -- Double Bind or Connection in the Classroom — October 14, 2010
- Children as Real People and Engaged Learners, but Schools Get in the Way — October 14, 2010
- Creativity and Kids — October 14, 2010
- Relationships, Bundles of Relationships — October 14, 2010
- Stupid — October 21, 2010
- The Problem with Hierarchies — October 31, 2010
- More on Hierarchies and Holarchies — November 7, 2010
- My Banned Word List for Teacher Education OR Questioning our Assumptions About Learning, Teaching, and Schooling — November 27, 2010
- Corporate Schooling, Not Public Schooling — June 11, 2010
- The Common Core Standards – Keeping Our Kids Dumb — July 2, 2011
- Thoughts on Adopting Curriculum from Other Countries — July 2, 2011
- Online Classes — July 2, 2011
- Controlled Burns – May Be Much Worse for our Health Than We Think — October 3, 2012
- Greenpeace... Book Review — October 3, 2012
- The "Common Core" of Ignorance — December 8, 2012
- More Shootings and We Still Haven’t Learned — December 14, 2012
- More on the Common Core: Who Decides? — March 11, 2013
- More on the Common Core: Who Benefits? — March 16, 2013
- Problems with Reclaimed Water (… and Our Ways of Thinking and Acting) — April 5, 2013
- Psychological Violence Against Children – A Commentary on a Huffington Post Article — April 06, 2013
- Acura: Social and Environmental Irresponsibility — April 28, 2013
- Researchers at the American Educational Research Association Protest Arnie Duncan and the Corporatization of Education in the U.S. — May 5, 2013
- Learning, Testing, and the Messes We've Created — May 6, 2013
- Standardized Boycott — May 10, 2013
- D.C. Bets Big on Common Core — May 23, 2013
- Standards, Political Rhetoric, and Underestimating Children — June 19, 2013
- The Arts (in School?) — June 20, 2013
- Meditation, Suffering, Aggression, and Taking Social-Environmental Action — August 31, 2013
- The Teacher All Teachers Should Want to Emulate — September 2, 2013
- Another Banned TED Talk: “Rich People Don’t Create Jobs” — September 8, 2013
- What If We Valued Questions More Than Answers? — May 21, 2014
- Double Binds and Residing in Our Own Traps — June 13, 2014
- Trap of Emotions — September 13, 2014
- Linear Thinking... a Lament — April 10, 2015
- Beyond Systems Thinking… Climbing Out of Boxes & Breaking Arrows — August 31, 2015
- Beyond Systems 2: Borderless Cognition — September 7, 2015
- “Oh, Look He’s Wagging His Tail” – A Little Girl’s Exploration of Earthworms and How Current Approaches to Schooling and Systems Thinking Short-Change Students — September 14, 2015
- Meat, Veggies, Water, Sentience, and Perplexities — September 14, 2015
- Consciousness of Trees and Our Need to Move Beyond Simple Systems Thinking — September 15, 2015
- Alternatives to Consumerism in Life and Schooling — September 21, 2015
- Teaching, Learning, Time — September 25, 2015
- The Tragedy of Simple Science Illiteracy — September 28, 2015
- Thinking, Flexibility, and Dogma: Survival or Extinction — September 30, 2015
- Jerome Bruner Turns 100 Today, October 1, 2015 — October 1, 2015
- Play and the Killing of Children’s Spirits in U.S. Schools — October 7, 2015
- Living in Sync With Context — October 8, 2015
- Solidification, Policy, and Fear — October 11, 2015
- Being in a Learning System — October 25, 2015
- Learning Content is the Trivial Part of Learning — November 5, 2015
- Blame and Fear (a poem) — November 16, 2015
- A Day in the Life … Terrorism and Bigotry — November 24, 2015
- Variation, Diversity, and Survival — November 24, 2015
- Media, Learning, Schooling, and What We Should Do — December 9, 2015
- Epistemology, Epistemological Shock, and Schooling: Part I — December 18, 2015
- Responsibility and Relationships: From You and Me to Society — March 9, 2016
- Brainwashing — April 21, 2016
- “Knowledge and Thought Have Parted Company” — May 17, 2016
- Corporatization of Colleges and Universities — May 18, 2016
- Habits of Mind — June 12, 2016
- When Things Go South -- Schismogenesis — June 28, 2016
- What Do Schools Teach Children? — August 3, 2016
- Mullings on the Pathological — October 15, 2016
- Losing Our Nation — February 8, 2017
- The Dissolution of the Institution of Education — March 19, 2017
- All Sizzle — July 16, 2017
- Books Everyone Should Read — July 26, 2017
- Most Influential Books — July 30, 2017
- The Myth of Teaching & the Myth of the Teacher — August 6, 2017
- Words That Teachers Use — August 10, 2017
- State of the World & Education — August 14, 2017
- Schools, Prisons, and Workplaces — August 16, 2017
- NPR & Diarrhea "News" — August 17, 2017
- The Problem With "Tolerance" — August 20, 2017
- A Brief Look at Warm Data in the Contexts of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Education — August 28, 2017
- Intelligence and Context: Epistemological Errors — September 1, 2017
- As (a poem) — September 4, 2017
- Inquiry, Systems, Relationships, and Learning – and the Loss of Integrity in Science Education — September 10, 2017
- Linearitis — September 17, 2017
- The Assumption of Linearity in Education — October 1, 2017
- Linearity 2.0 – Crushing Insight and Creativity — October 8, 2017
- Connecting to Another — October 14, 2017
- Federal and State Standards, and Local Curriculum Guidelines – Disturbing Documents — October 22, 2017
- The Corporate—Institutional Connection in Education — November 1, 2017
- Schooling and How Schools Don’t Prepare Children for Life — November 17, 2017
- Living in Layers – Part I – Introduction — November 26, 2017
- Among Friends — November 26, 2017
- Living in Layers – Part II – Living in Layers — November 29, 2017
- Living in Layers – Part III – Power and Control — December 1, 2017
- Living In Layers – Part IV – Seeking Security and Stability — December 10, 2017
- Living in Layers – Part V – Fear and Loathing — December 19, 2017
- Living in Layers. Part VI. The Great Disconnect — December 24, 2017
- Dumbing Down America — January 6, 2018
- Living in Layers – Part VII – Where’s our Humanity? Heart or Mind? And Other Centers — January 7, 2018
- Schools and the Forces of Anti-Democracy and Bigotry — January 13, 2018
- Cell Phones in Classrooms — January 20, 2018
- “A Fake Society of the 21st Century” – A Must-Watch Video — January 20, 2018
- Living In Layers – Part VIII – Relating to the Other: Clashing Beliefs and Cultures — January 20, 2018
- Living in Layers – Part 9 – Courage, Compassion, and Intellect — January 29, 2018
- The New Koch School — February 5, 2018
- Living In Layers – Part 10 – Emergence and Ownership — February 10, 2018
- Living in Layers – Part 11 – A Sense of Place: Beyond a Whole and Its Parts — February 16, 2018
- The Nature of Communities -- Part 1 — March 6, 2018
- The Untimely Death of Integrity: And the Effects of Cold Data vs. Warm Data — March 23, 2018
- Saving Ourselves: The Nature and Importance of Communities in Schools, Businesses, Societies, and Ecosystems — May 6, 2018
- Politics, Lemmings, Ostriches, and the Problem with American Thinking — June 14, 2018
- Fear & Sentience -- An Answer to a Quora Question — June 26, 2018