that Is

  “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is Life.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

a library is…

a place to be free to be in space to be in cave times to be a cook to be a crook to be in love to be unhappy to be quick and smart to be contained and cautious to surf the rainbow to sail the dreams to be blue to be jazz to be

light

Median Mashup: Hubble’s Top 100 Image Credit & Copyright: Michael West (Maria Mitchell Observatory) Explanation: Now, as you sip your cosmic latte you can view 100 Hubble Space Telescope images at the same time. The popular scenes of the cosmos as captured from low Earth orbit are all combined into this single digital presentation. To

blessed brain!

live & learn

Lessons From Social Movements: Six Notes on the Radical Imagination.

grading is grating …

snow peepZ

Kudos!

to Master Henderson for completing her non-thesis defense yesterday! her presentation, as well as her curriculum unit on Ecological Food Literacy (sustainability focused, agricultural education within core content classrooms), was amazing. even if this means she will be leaving us sooner than later, we are truly, so frakkin’ proud of you!!!

“A Revolutionary Praxis of Hope”

If you aren’t already aware, there’s a law in Arizona right now, HB 2281, designed to forbid k-12 public/charter school teachers from educating specifically about Mexican American studies. Interestingly or obviously, HB 2281 was signed into law soon after the SB 1070 anti-immigration law. There are many outreach projects as a result of this injustice,

Critical Theories in the 21st Century

A couple of old friends are helping with this “conference of transformative pedagogies” – awesome work guys!