i count the moments when your hand finds mine,small clockwork measures that unseat the dark.your smile, a ledger, balances the day;your voice, an ordered tide, refines my thought.i learn the grammar of your silences,repay them with a careful, steady ear.we argue, not to wound, but to be clearer;we fail, then practice courage like a craft.there … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v6. (Sonnet)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Sue Roe’s In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art is a capacious, elegiac portrait of a place and a moment. It threads biography, cultural history, and close-looking criticism to argue that Montmartre — with its cafés, studios, cheap lodgings and convivial degradations — was not merely backdrop but active engine of a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
i’m not sure what love is,but i can list its ridiculous perks. i love a grin that sneaks up like a catand ambushes my morning coffee.i love eyes that play hide-and-seekwith the important bits of my face. i love hands that high-five and then apologizefor being so good at holding things.i love hugs that smuggle … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v5. (Lighter)
Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
In an era dominated by digital media, media and information literacy—the competencies to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act with information across media—should be treated as a foundational skill alongside reading and numeracy. International frameworks frame media literacy as a teachable, scaffoldable competency that can and should be embedded into core curricula rather than treated … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – The Case for Media Literacy in Elementary Education: An Evidence-Based Argument
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
Jim Robison’s Slab Techniques is a concise, unpretentious primer that manages the useful trick of being both immediately practical and quietly provocative. Presented as part of the Ceramics Handbooks series, the book lays out slab building not as a single method but as a family of choices — a toolkit of decisions about clay, joinery, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Slab Techniques by Jim Robison
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v4. (Darker)
i'm not sure what love is; i know its shadow.it is the appetite that wakes at midnight,a small, precise hunger that learns your shapeand traces the hollows where light once lived. i love the way you keep a pocket of achelike a coin for later—found and folded in.your smile is not bright so much as … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v4. (Darker)
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins’s Awaken the Giant Within (first issued in the early 1990s) is, at once, a manifesto, a handbook, and a revival meeting. Framed as a program for total self-mastery, it stitches together memoiristic anecdote, high-velocity exhortation, practical exercises and a bricolage of psychological techniques into a single, capacious work aimed at producing measurable change … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v3.
i’ve never defined love.i catalogue it. a smile that docks my breath,eyes that hide a whole country,hands that read the weather of my skin. a laugh that licenses my absurdity,words that pry open rooms i’d closed,arguments that teach me tenderness. artists who give themselves away,courage that mistakes itself into invention,a heart under renovation. you begin … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v3.
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins’ Skinny Legs and All reads like a party thrown by a philosopher with a taste for slapstick and haute cuisine — simultaneously exuberant and argumentative, mischievous and serious. The author is less interested in plotting than in setting ideas loose: the novel delights in collisions — between high and low culture, sacred and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v2.
i’m not sure what love is,only what it does. i love a smile that tugs me under—an invitation, small and blunt—so my mouth answers with a borrowed grin,so my chest rehearses missing before you leave. i love the eyes that keep a templebehind their light, a place I want to baptize myself inand learn the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – LOVE, v2.
The New Renaissance Mindset 