My goal is for my students to be free but I can’t do liberation for them. — Marquise can hold space. You know when Marquise is in the classroom. Not because he is fidgeting or cracking jokes or doing any of the fireworks that 15 yr old male students do. Marquise can hold space. Every time I think about my classroom, I think about Marquise. He is…

Steve Wright, Stephen Wright and Stevie Wright University Department of Academia, Freedom Road May 15, 2021 Abstract: In this paper my co-authors and I are attempting to make sense of a world where entropy seems to have the upper hand. Empirically speaking, things fall apart. We begin with the logical discontinuity…

Alberto is intensely curious. His curiosity is essential but vulnerable, like a campfire in a blizzard. I can barely remember him as a Sophomore. That was three years ago and then the Pandemic and remote instruction. Alberto struggled to engage in his Junior year and didn’t attend school at all…

We built what we have on purpose. We can build something better. — This is a follow up to The “Great” Experiment and is just a snippet. The full piece is at Age of Awareness… Carter is a citizen of the micro-world that is our High School: 2000 students and 200 teachers and staff. Carter has figured out the game. I have always…

We built what we have on purpose. We can build something better. — In The “Great” Experiment I wrote about how America has used brutal oppression and propaganda to restrain social mobility and reward compliance. In this post I am looking at how the institution of American education is designed to reward compliance. In subsequent posts I will write about how we can…

Time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid — The phrase, “great experiment” is often attributed to Alexis De Tocqueville from his book, On Democracy in America published in 1835. In that land the great experiment was to be made, by civilized man, of the attempt to construct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the…

Back to School in a Pandemic — There is a list A list of things that are happening outside Our classroom A space that is Aware of the list But separate A space to experiment with Boundaries, with Intention, with Failure and success Failure after success Iterations ransacking an unknown but actual future Our classroom has…

Time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid — The phrase, “great experiment” is often attributed to Alexis De Tocqueville from his book, On Democracy in America published in 1835. In that land the great experiment was to be made, by civilized man, of the attempt to construct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the…

Back to School in a Pandemic There is a list A list of things that are happening outside Our classroom A space that is Aware of the list But separate A space to experiment with Boundaries, with Intention, with Failure and success Failure after success Iterations ransacking an unknown but actual future…