Here is the blog which I started in August 2015 before traveling around the world...
RandomVail.com
Here is an elective course I created and taught during the 2014-2015 school year...
Introduction to Ideas
The following links will enhance your education. Check 'em out...
Powers of 10 is a classic portrayal of exponential changes.
The Scale of the Universe 2 is another manifestation of this idea.
"MindWalk" is a great film that attempts to explain quantum physics (one of nine clips)...
"The Paper Chase" is a film about Harvard Law School and how to be a student (but "never assume anything")...
The Story of Stuff is an interesting & important take on "things."
Friend Steve Ritz's TED talk about the Green Bronx Machine.
Steve & I at the Big Ideas Fest, December 2012.
Some organizations...
California Department of Education
San Mateo County Office of Education
Pie Ranch
California State Parks
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
San Mateo Resource Conservation District
San Gregorio Environmental Research Center
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts!
Here are some newspaper articles...
An article about Mindfulness training at Pescadero Middle & High School
An article about the Pescadero Art and Fun Festival
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2014
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2013
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2012.
Promoting student engagement with "realpolitik." School board debate from the 2012 election.
Thanks to the HMB library - Viola Canales, author of "The Tequila Worm" (Karen Choy is former student and HMB librarian).
An article about "Panther Camp" (K-8 Summer School at PHS) from 2011.
The Safe Routes to School program - the 2012-13 school year.
...and here are some older pieces from the LA Times:
Teaching in the Agriculture Area at North Hollywood High back in the 1990's.
An editorial I wrote on School Gardens in the Los Angeles Times back in 2001.
About The Naturalist Academy, a program I started at NHHS. Now the School for Advanced Study.
And here is a rough draft for a possible program in our area: The Open Space Academy
RandomVail.com
Here is an elective course I created and taught during the 2014-2015 school year...
Introduction to Ideas
The following links will enhance your education. Check 'em out...
Powers of 10 is a classic portrayal of exponential changes.
The Scale of the Universe 2 is another manifestation of this idea.
"MindWalk" is a great film that attempts to explain quantum physics (one of nine clips)...
"The Paper Chase" is a film about Harvard Law School and how to be a student (but "never assume anything")...
The Story of Stuff is an interesting & important take on "things."
Friend Steve Ritz's TED talk about the Green Bronx Machine.
Steve & I at the Big Ideas Fest, December 2012.
Some organizations...
California Department of Education
San Mateo County Office of Education
Pie Ranch
California State Parks
Peninsula Open Space Trust
Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
San Mateo Resource Conservation District
San Gregorio Environmental Research Center
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts!
Here are some newspaper articles...
An article about Mindfulness training at Pescadero Middle & High School
An article about the Pescadero Art and Fun Festival
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2014
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2013
An editorial I wrote in the Half Moon Bay Review regarding the Big Ideas Fest 2012.
Promoting student engagement with "realpolitik." School board debate from the 2012 election.
Thanks to the HMB library - Viola Canales, author of "The Tequila Worm" (Karen Choy is former student and HMB librarian).
An article about "Panther Camp" (K-8 Summer School at PHS) from 2011.
The Safe Routes to School program - the 2012-13 school year.
...and here are some older pieces from the LA Times:
Teaching in the Agriculture Area at North Hollywood High back in the 1990's.
An editorial I wrote on School Gardens in the Los Angeles Times back in 2001.
About The Naturalist Academy, a program I started at NHHS. Now the School for Advanced Study.
And here is a rough draft for a possible program in our area: The Open Space Academy