I like the rhythm of school year and summer; it's one of the reasons I became a teacher. But even though the summer brings a welcome change of pace, I don't usually hope for unstructured weeks on end. During the school year, my life is segmented into 45 minute blocks and so to wake up with … Continue reading The Boredom of Summer
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Good Enough
"Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." ~Voltaire If there's a lesson that this year is likely to teach me, it's the value of saying good enough. As usual, I've taken on a lot this academic term. Teaching five classes (three preps, two of which are new) in middle and upper school, serving as an Instructional … Continue reading Good Enough
Work Freedom
"One of the deepest horrors of modern man is to recognize to which which degree that inner fear, to which he doesn't know how to relate, makes a sham out of freedom." -Ivan Illich, The Rivers North of the Future Last October, John Palfrey, former Executive Director of the Berkman Center and one of the … Continue reading Work Freedom
Sweeping Streets
If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep streets, even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.' ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
In For Good 