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Highlights:

2024.04 Talk: A new normal
part 1: The normal adult
part 2: Growing up normal
2025.03 Essay: On being married to Gena
2024.11 Essay: A sensitive period for texting

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Talks

2024.04 A new normal, pt. 2: growing up normal
2023.12 A new normal, pt. 1: the normal adult
2021.07 Montessori and the independent mind (starting at 42:30)

Essays

2025.03 On being married to Gena
2025.01 Human variance, unleashed
2024.12 The meaning of Christmas
2024.11 A sensitive period for texting
2024.10 Writing before reading
2024.06 1700 miles, connected by Montessori
2024.06 A world for agency
2024.03 Good morning
2024.01 Orienting towards agency
2023.11 Thanks be to the human
2023.07 ”All work is noble...”
2023.06 Teaching a backflip in one hour: the unreasonable effectiveness of good instructional design
2023.05 The best education that money can buy
2023.05 Repetition without repetition
2023.04 A personal assistant for all
2023.04 The fourth trimester
2023.01 Winning the reading wars
2022.12 Montessori on beginnings
2022.12 Montessori on Santa Claus
2022.12 The inherent human love of self-mastery
2022.12 Education as sales
2022.11 “It is not that we do as we like...”
2022.11 Control of error
2022.10 An early advantage
2022.10 Columbus Day vs. Indigenous Peoples’ Day
2022.09 Would you intervene?
2022.08 Arguing against Montessori / Defending Montessori
2022.07 “...one of the irreducible facts of life...”
2022.06 Benevolence without compromise
2022.06 The unpleasant effort
2022.05 Doubling down on literacy
2022.04 Effecting Enlightenment in education, 400 years late
2022.04 Educating virtuous poasters
2022.04 Moving on up
2022.04 Why have children?
2022.03 Keeping the romance alive
2022.03 Happiness
2022.03 Creating a child’s world
2022.03 Montessori and war
2022.02 Emergency exit
2022.02 Is it true?
2022.01 Knowing stuff
2022.01 Our “our policy” policy
2022.01 All or nothing
2021.12 Practice
2021.12 Abundance and health
2021.11 Public schools exacerbate the culture wars
2021.11 Preserving the quest for the right answer
2021.11 Vocational training for the soul
2021.11 A pedagogy of gratitude
2021.10 On Columbus and Indigenous People’s Days
2021.10 The future of education
2021.09 Everything is for everyone
2021.08 Place value as soulcraft in Montessori
2020.09 The persona of an educator
2020.08 Higher Ground’s approach to identity
2020.01 Human achievement and human development
2019.12 The prepared environment at Guidepost Montessori
2019.10 Culture of work, culture of knowledge
2018.01 Higher Ground’s lanterns

Podcast appearances

That is, where I am a guest:

2025.11 Matt Bateman, Aaron Stupple, and Divia Eden talk kids and freedom
2024.11 AI in education on the Hannah Frankman Show
2024.03 The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
2023.11 Odd Lots (paywalled transcript)
2023.10 Chatting with Candice
2023.09 The Hannah Frankman Show
2023.08 Audience of One
2022.05 Tech in EdTech
2022.05 New Ideal
2022.03 The Daily Objective
2022.02 Increments
2022.01 InspirEd solo
2021.12 InspirEd with Ray Girn
2021.12 Chalkboard Review
2021.08 Ingenuinism
2021.05 The Yaron Brook Show
2021.04 Sora Learning Lab
2021.04 The Don Watkins Show
2020.12 Where We Go Next, née The New Liberals
2020.10 Humaning
2020.10 Forefront Five
2020.06 The Torch of Progress

Podcast interviews

That is, where I am the host:

2022.08 Rohit Krishnan
2022.08 Vriti Saraf
2022.07 Martin Bickman
2022.06 Josh and Kirk Umbehr
2022.06 Rebecca Girn
2022.05 Ryan Delk
2022.05 Telisha Thomas and Sam Sharp
2022.05 David Doswell and Arnaud Schenk
2022.04 Joseph Connor
2022.03 Cristina de Stefano
2022.03 Pano Kanelos
2022.03 Kmele Foster and Greg Salmieri
2022.03 Luc Travers
2022.02 Sarah Miller
2022.02 Bryan Caplan
2022.02 Yusuf Ahmad
2022.02 Bobby McDonald
2022.01 Jason Rheins
2022.01 Louise Livingston
2022.01 Staci Hill, Laura Mazer
2021.12 Chloé Valdary, Kmele Foster, Greg Salmieri
2021.12 Kerry Ellard
2021.12 Ray Girn, Joel Mendes
2021.11 Laura Shaw, Andrew Wilson
2021.11 Anna Gat
2021.11 Fawaz Al-Matrouk
2021.11 Jason Crawford
2021.11 A panoply of math educators
2021.11 Lindsay Journo

Other conversations and panels I’ve hosted

2021.07 Angeline Lillard on Montessori in the 21st c. (Q&A at 48:50)
2021.03 On Covid in schools: Emily Oster and Amesh Adalja
2021.02 Chloé Valdary, Kmele Foster, Greg Salmieri on Black History Month
2020.06 Chloé Valdary on her Theory of Enchantment
2020.05 On Covid in schools: Amesh Adalja
2020.05 On Covid in schools: Emily Oster

Newsletters

2024.09 A different approach to injustice
2023.08 Happy birthday, Maria Montessori
2022.10 Montessori school is better
2022.08 The Great Rethink in Education, v0.1.1
2022.07 Podcast highlights
2022.05 Against two commonplaces
2022.04 The Great Rethink in Education
2022.04 Should high school exist?
2022.04 Gears, caves, Tesla, saxophones
2022.03 Education isn’t value-neutral, but...
2022.03 The Philip of Macedon approach to education
2022.03 Subordinating citizenship
2022.02 Current events, currently—and generally
2022.02 Montessori as a movement
2022.02 Bottom of the stack
2022.02 Does early childhood education matter?
2022.01 Hard, normal, absurd
2022.01 The environment
2022.01 Segregation and stress
2022.01 Pandemic learning
2021.12 Heavy holiday reading
2021.12 Unsolved problems
2021.11 History, blockchain, and schools, oh my

If you want me in your inbox, I still write an occasional weekly staff note for Higher Ground Education, which is on Substack.

Miscellaneous

2021.09 Lecture series: The history of education [video hosting broken, working on this]
2021.07 DTC talk: Work in education: a Peculiar history
2020.08 Clip from my Montessori theory training
2019.06 Short Higher Ground interview of me
2018.05 Some bits of me at Higher Ground's 2nd anniversary event

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