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    Prioritizing things

    I loved blogging each night for those hundreds of nights. I want to get back to it but I also have been making sure to…

    Peter.Johnson September 11, 2023

    Coming back fresh

    I had a streak of about 240 blog posts in a row before this past break. I imagined I could be like Seth Godin and…

    Peter.Johnson August 2, 2023

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    Here I shared all the work that went into making what will someday be the ‘world’s coolest classroom. It is still a work in progress!

    Peter.Johnson July 23, 2023

    Edtech isn’t going to fix education

    I waited and got my hopes up high that technology was going to start to transforming education. That didnt happen. Things are changing but we…

    Peter.Johnson July 22, 2023

    Learning by creating

    We need to be giving kids more opportunities to create. Just straight up create. We can list all the reasons it is difficult or expensive……

    Peter.Johnson July 21, 2023

    Something just as important as hard work

    I made this video to say something important that I think we ignore in our schools. I consider it just as important as ‘hard work’…

    Peter.Johnson July 20, 2023

    The 21st century classroom…

    The term ‘The 21st Century classroom’ was such a buzz word back in my college days. There were such high hopes for technology to change…

    Peter.Johnson July 18, 2023

    Adding stories about vulnerability and authenticity to my story bank

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    Peter.Johnson July 17, 2023

    The 22nd Century Classroom | Let’s Change Education Ourselves S1:E9

    I really enjoyed making these videos, they challenged me to think through a vision for education in the future. They pushed me out of my comfort zone …
    Peter.Johnson July 16, 2023
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    Bringing back Strengths Class

    I had my 7th graders twice two years ago. After we did our Innovative Arts thing, we had ‘Strengths Class’. It got to be a…

    Peter.Johnson July 14, 2023

    The long game

    The conventional wisdom is to be on social media, grow an audience, and leverage that audience into all sorts of opportunities. This was exhausting to…

    Peter.Johnson July 13, 2023

    Letting students lead more

    Today, a conversation with a past student has me thinking about how much I let students lead. It has been easier to keep students all…

    Peter.Johnson July 12, 2023

    Teaching Creativity, Attempt #6

    There is a little side class on creativity coming up, this time for adults. To teach it well, I feel like need to understand it…

    Peter.Johnson July 11, 2023

    And back to the grind

    It has been fun to do all the big picture work, work that started years ago. But after so much progress, I need to prep…

    Peter.Johnson July 10, 2023

    Random Story Combiner

    I want to be a better storyteller and begin really bringing the ‘new vision for education’ to life. To help with this, I started a…

    Peter.Johnson July 8, 2023

    The beautiful thing I’ve created

    Today was spent planning the first days of school this fall and the pieces are really coming together. It will be all new and familiar…

    Peter.Johnson July 7, 2023

    Hit bottom (or is it the top?)

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    Peter.Johnson July 6, 2023

    Teaching kids that they can learn

    The oversimplification that I have been searching for is this: ‘Teaching kids that they can learn.’ My knee-jerk reaction is to think that, of course,…

    Peter.Johnson July 4, 2023

    Simpler is better

    If you read my writing, you probably have already noticed that I make things more complicated than they need to be. Let me start over.…

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