The last newsletter introduced us to the good that comes from planning (and growing) towns and cities at a human scale. Towns thus planned allowed neighborhood businesses to flourish. Barber shops, mercantiles, restaurants, bars, doctors…all these small businesses, vital to the health and well-being of citizens were also vital to the life of the townContinue reading “Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing””
Category Archives: Social Entrepreneurship
The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Defeat: Cassidy Lichtman’s “P/ATH” and Sport as a Good Thing
A look at a small but determined initiative using sports in a focused and determined way to achieve one’s goals as well as a way to develop a solid sense of self and a care for a larger key community.
NOVA Lab in the News
This interview was hosted by Hazel Mason of the Modern Learners and their Change School initiative. Hazel does a great job of drawing out some of the really salient and critical outcomes of NOVA Lab
Project Wayfinder: A Good Thing
Vol 1. No 4 of the Do Good Things Newsletter takes a look at the Good Work of Project Wayfinder and Purpose-Based Learning.
Play Ball!
Last week I published the second edition of the “Do Good Things” Newsletter/blog post. In it, I spoke about the great good work of “Coach Ballgame,” James Lowe. Today, I have the pleasure of releasing the first episode (it’s rough…but beautiful) of our “Doing Good Things” podcast featuring Coach Ballgame. If you have a cupContinue reading “Play Ball!”
‘Atta Boy!
When Passion finds Purpose Joy for all involved is a result. Coach Ballgame lives it every day.
So I Started a Newsletter
The start of something (else) good…
From Great to Good
I’d rather live knowing I tried to do all I could to make the world a better place rather than simply bettering my own place in the world.
Lightning in a Bottle…Twice: The Joy of Learning
This is the kind of experience that shifts the mind utterly, that reveals something we’ve hidden from students behind tests, and rules, and most of all, grades.
This is the Joy of Learning embodied.
Design Build Challenge: Weltanschauung–Design as World View
I still believe Design Thinking can help save the world.
Apparently my students have come to think so, too.
Innovation Lab 