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Here’s a few things we can learn from our Harbor Freight Fellows work when thinking about standards and variation. White oak toolboxes...

Here’s a headline from California Community Colleges: “More than 300,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019....

“This week is the 200th anniversary of Frederick Olmsted’s birth. I spent countless hours in the environments he fashioned in Brooklyn...

“All the saints have a past. All the sinners a future.” Oscar Wilde Last week, I wrote a bit about community places – third spaces where...

When ‘first’ places (home) merge with ‘second’ places (work) and morph into ‘third’ places we exchange ideas and have a good time. This...

My photos are moving from the Hollywood Squares of Zoomland to Face to Face and that’s a sign of change. Every picture tells a story....

It will take 200 years to close the racial wealth gap. You got a minute? Our BPLiving work sessions this week were getting us ready for...

Leadership Journeys at SxSW Going to SxSW gave us an opportunity to put ImBlaze and B-U side by side in the Exhibition Hall. Anthonette,...

This morning, I had a talk with La Tasha Brown formerly the head of the Shirley Chisholm Center for Equity Studies and now the Director...

Although I try to give the image and the word good space in my TGIFs, this week’s TGIF is a bit different with more space devoted to the...

Dubbed the SoFL Avengers by CJax, our group had a great time being both serious and playful at the same time. Two years ago, about half...

It was very close to two years ago (pre-COVID) that the BPL Big Bang scouting team met at The Diplomat in Hollywood, FL. Next week, a...

Too many Know-What and Not Enough Know-How types of. measures will give you - How smart is this student to a standardized test? rather...

“Every day, reality eats strategic plans for lunch.” – David Abel This week, lots of photos were coming my way. Please keep ‘em comin’....

Happy, Happy New Year! Coming off “Dead Week,” some lyrics from Mose Allision and a few tinkerings. My brain is always tickin', my...

LEGO Foundation Grant Yesterday, we received great news from the LEGO Foundation that we got the $1.5 million grant we applied for that...

This last weekend, I finished some really well written articles and a book about how 12 Clocks shaped the history of the world. As we...

We are about to submit our response to the second round of the Tools Competition Award for the International Big Picture Learning...

I got out to two school visits this week – The San Diego Met and Met Sacramento. The San Diego Met visit was with the dynamic Ashé...

Yesterday, I had a follow-up call with Joe Youcha. Joe brought his friend John Dillow, co-founder of SkillSmart to Zoom. John Dillow has...