Theater is an indispensable tool for addressing the climate crisis, as it is an essential activity addressing what it means to be human.

The power of the workshop is to rethink the point of time.

Hope lies in creative adventuring

I was invited to contribute a piece on creativity to the W.W. Norton K-12Talk Education blog. Here it is! http://k-12talk.com/2021/01/28/spark-your-students-creativity-with-these-zoom-friendly-exercises

I have never lived in a truly healthy, equitable, thriving society. But thanks to my fellow artists, students and teachers, leaders and teammates, I have touched moments of what it might look and feel like.

Cultivating curiosity is one of the most important things we do as educators. Zooming literature to life raises questions, uncovers vulnerabilities, and provides invaluable portals into imaginative and critical inquiry.

This article originally appeared on Edutopia.org

You're a great teacher. But are you feeling inept in the face of online instruction? Here's a little general motivation to translate how – and why – you teach to digital platforms.

Now more than ever we need both the power and joy of words, the playfulness and kinetic energy of numbers. In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, our lives look a lot like Milo's at the beginning of this adventure – stuck in our rooms, overwhelmed by the noise of the words and numbers screamed at us by the media, trapped by the static and paused quality of life, in danger of boring ourselves to distraction.

Imagine my surprise when, in response to social distancing protocols, I moved my youth production of King Lear from the rehearsal hall to Zoom....and loved it.

I want to bring people together when it would be so easy to let them drift apart.

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