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A Letter to High School Seniors: Don’t Accept College Rejections

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I wanted to share a recent essay I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “A Letter to High School Seniors: Don’t Accept College Rejections”: Dear High School Seniors, Over the past few weeks, many of you have received letters from the colleges to … Continue reading →

Solutionaries: Zoe Weil’s New TEDx Talk

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I’m excited to share my new TEDxConejo talk: Solutionaries, which explores the challenges and opportunities for making choices that do the most good and least harm through our work, citizenship, and daily choices, and suggests ways to transform education at the root and embrace the power it has has to bring about a better world … Continue reading →

Helping Students Live Big Lives

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Award-winning educator and educational revolutionary, John Taylor Gatto, wrote in his book, Weapons of Mass Instruction: “Being a mature being means living with a purpose, your own purpose: it’s about welcoming responsibility as the nourishment a big life needs: it’s about behaving as a good citizen – finding ways to add value to the community … Continue reading →

What makes us citizens? #bloggermarch #sosmarch

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This is, perhaps, my favorite passage from the Save Our Schools March website: There is no greater mandate in education than guiding our children to act as responsible citizens engaged in their community, nation, and the world around them. Most American public schools do not do this work. They are not built to do it. … Continue reading →

Teaching: The Most Noble Profession

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For my blog post today, I’m sharing an essay I wrote that was published on Common Dreams.org, a progressive news site. Here’s a short excerpt: “In college a friend in medical school told me that he thought that medicine was the most noble profession. It was a strange statement, really, and quite provocative. I wondered … Continue reading →

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