What an epic and necessary piece, Nia. I find myself wishing I could move somewhere closer to the Mission Valley or Jocko Valley because I don't feel like my trips up there to teach kids are sustainable from a time standpoint. It's a lot of time juggling, a lot of schedule juggling and it's getting harder and harder to maintain. I'd like to disentangle myself from the MWC bureaucracy and its pressures to make it feel like a j-o-b and figure out a way to keep doing it, maybe on a once-a-month basis or something, voluntarily. I don't know. It's on my mind a lot.
We're going to need more than a day to cover all the discussion points piling up on us. And I didn't even mention how BHA makes me kinda puke in my mouth anymore. But most conservation organizations do, so that's probably more a me problem.
"it strikes me so strongly that these teens seem to know themselves and take ownership of their thinking and ideas in ways that I can’t imagine doing when I was that age." -- I feel the same way; I had zero sense of agency at that age, more a lost feeling. Why was that?
I keep thinking that issues of scale must get the most attention-must be subjected to the most scrutiny and refinement. Surely someone is doing massive A-B tests on the effectiveness of curricula and units and questions, to narrow in on the best and most efficient ways to learn the most important subjects that every single person in America is required to learn.
I am an idealist. And maybe more naive than I like to admit.
Before going back to law school, I was very involved in school district stuff here in Little Rock. You have put to print so many thoughts and conversations that I've had over the years that it's uncanny. So I say to this piece...ditto.
What an epic and necessary piece, Nia. I find myself wishing I could move somewhere closer to the Mission Valley or Jocko Valley because I don't feel like my trips up there to teach kids are sustainable from a time standpoint. It's a lot of time juggling, a lot of schedule juggling and it's getting harder and harder to maintain. I'd like to disentangle myself from the MWC bureaucracy and its pressures to make it feel like a j-o-b and figure out a way to keep doing it, maybe on a once-a-month basis or something, voluntarily. I don't know. It's on my mind a lot.
We're going to need more than a day to cover all the discussion points piling up on us. And I didn't even mention how BHA makes me kinda puke in my mouth anymore. But most conservation organizations do, so that's probably more a me problem.
"it strikes me so strongly that these teens seem to know themselves and take ownership of their thinking and ideas in ways that I can’t imagine doing when I was that age." -- I feel the same way; I had zero sense of agency at that age, more a lost feeling. Why was that?
I keep thinking that issues of scale must get the most attention-must be subjected to the most scrutiny and refinement. Surely someone is doing massive A-B tests on the effectiveness of curricula and units and questions, to narrow in on the best and most efficient ways to learn the most important subjects that every single person in America is required to learn.
I am an idealist. And maybe more naive than I like to admit.
Before going back to law school, I was very involved in school district stuff here in Little Rock. You have put to print so many thoughts and conversations that I've had over the years that it's uncanny. So I say to this piece...ditto.