Where I build in public, just ship it, and fail fast. — I’m one week into my ten week run as an OnDeck Climate Tech Fellow. So far, so awesome. Here’s what I’m trying to build/learn. I like to electrify old motorcycles. Here’s the latest one:

And twenty years ahead of us. — 4.0 Family, 8 years ago I wrote a business plan oozing with certainty about what New Orleans and other communities needed from me and other experts concerning the future of school. It was a shining example of what Dr. Lisa Delpit once described as reform done to Other People’s Children. 4.0 has…

A Deeper South This post is a great example of adeepersouth, a project my brother Pete and historian John Hayes just launched:

Dancing Grounds shows us what it looks like. — I’ve been trying to explain for a few years the promise and possibility of specialized learning spaces. Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don’t. Today, in the French Quarter’s Le Petit Theatre, Dancing Grounds’ founder Laura Stein and her remarkable teachers threw down a jaw-dropping example of what…

When the Curiosity Rover landed in the Gale Crater in August of 2012, NASA planned for it to rove around Mars for two years. Almost five years later, it’s still going. It makes me wonder: How much planning goes into a mission like that? How long does NASA test before…

Austin Crouse on what Tiny Fellows are building with families and students — Yesterday, we opened up a new application for both 4.0 Fellowships — Essentials and Tiny. Want to see what other people have created while participating in these programs? Austin Crouse, who leads the Tiny Fellowship program, shares the amazing work being done all over the US by members of the last two cohorts of the Tiny Fellowship in this great post.

How 4.0 got to 2017 and where we’re headed next — Welcome to 4.0, a community of gutsy people focused on a very big problem — school isn’t great yet for every child. But we’ve made a tiny dent. In the last six years, more than 750 4.0ers have learned how to test promising learning spaces and schools that work better…

We’ve been working on getting a more surround sound feel going over at futureofschool.org, so here’s our first cut at a staff-wide post — on how we feel about 2016. Dear 2016, You brought defining moments to 4.0 Schools, our community and each member of our team. Some of those moments we shared…medium.com And as far as THIS year goes, we’re ready to roll out some pretty exciting stuff - 8 days from now at our 2017 Community summit. Keep your eyes peeled for livetweets at @4pt0schools

A conversation about funding school for the next generation. — The crew at Bright asked me to kick off a conversation on investing in the future of school based on this fascinating report from the Education Commission — The Learning Generation. Check out the discussion and join in with your own thoughts! Investing in the Learning Generation The future of school — and the species — requires bigger thinking, smaller tests, and more commitment from all of us.medium.com