The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make (2006) presents itself as an expansive, practical craft volume: it combines The Basket Book and Handmade Baskets, adds ten extra projects, and includes new colour photography. The edition is listed as a 192-page book published by Lark Books in New York, and the available … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Ultimate Basket Book: A Cornucopia of Popular Designs to Make by Lyn Siler
Revisionist Poetry – “The Day the Stones Learned to Balance” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.6 (A cosmic daydream conversation…)
Note: I reworked this one while reading Italo Calvino's masterpiece, "The Complete Cosmicomics". I got inspired to write an absurdist conversation between the builder/narrator and... well, everything else in the poem... At first, the river had no opinion about stones.It simply carried them, as it carried everything else,with the distant manner of a clerkwho has … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Day the Stones Learned to Balance” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.6 (A cosmic daydream conversation…)
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is not merely a history of Nazi Germany; it is an act of historical witnessing written with the urgency of a moral reckoning. First published in 1960, the book has the scale and propulsion of an epic, but its true power lies elsewhere: The … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Revisionist Poetry – ““The River’s Little Undertaking” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.5 (A bit of gothic daydreaming)
Along the riverbank I wander,collecting stones for my doomed little architecture,as though the universe had not already made clearits opinion of permanence. I choose my rocks like an undertaker chooses florals:with care, with dread, with faint embarrassment.This one is a knuckle.That one looks like a tooth.Another has the cold authority of a gravestoneand the personality … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – ““The River’s Little Undertaking” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.5 (A bit of gothic daydreaming)
Revisionist Pedagogy – Advancing Educational Equity: The Case for Universal Design for Learning in Curricula
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an instructional framework designed to make education more accessible, equitable, and effective for a wide range of learners. Rooted in the recognition that variability is a normal feature of human learning, UDL moves away from the traditional assumption that one method of teaching can meet the needs of all … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Advancing Educational Equity: The Case for Universal Design for Learning in Curricula
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life by Tai Sheridan
Tai Sheridan’s Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life is a compact spiritual text—112 pages in its Kindle edition, first published in 2012—that belongs to the tradition of aphoristic devotional writing, yet it aims less at doctrine than at psychic and ethical recalibration. Goodreads describes it as a work that addresses “what is unsettled within you” … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life by Tai Sheridan
Revisionist Poetry – “Temporary Geometry” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.4
By the river, I stack stonesbecause nothing here stays putand I want to make somethingthat knows that. The water moves.The sun warms my neck.My hands learn the shape of each rockbefore I place it where it might hold. A tower rises.It wobbles.It survives. That is enough for me:this small, unstable proofthat beauty can liveinside collapse.
T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams by Barbara Sher
Barbara Sher’s Refuse to Choose is less a self-help manual than a quiet rebellion against one of modern life’s most persistent moral fictions: that a meaningful person must become one thing, permanently, and then remain legible to everyone else. Her central argument is generous and radical. She refuses to treat curiosity as a flaw, breadth … Continue reading T.A.E.’s (The Adaptable Educator) Book Review – Refuse to Choose: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams by Barbara Sher
Revisionist Poetry – “The Quiet Architecture of Passing” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.3
Beside the river I make my little cathedralsfrom broken stones and patient hands,not to defeat time,but to hear it breathe. The current slides near mewith its soft, unanswering wisdom,while I choose each stone by touch,its cool weight, its scars, its fit. Sunlight settles on my back.The bank is hushed.I bend, I lift, I balance,and for … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Quiet Architecture of Passing” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus remains one of the most intellectually alive novels in English because it is not merely a tale of scientific overreach, but a meditation on what it means to create, to know, to abandon, and to be human. Its enduring power lies in the fact that it refuses simple … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
The New Renaissance Mindset 