Writing

The wind sprint, the grade as a breaking lever, and why the conditions for struggle turn out to be relational, not cognitive.

The EPS AI Approach moves from draft into student handbooks and course syllabi: what faculty workgroups learned, and where the conversations narrow next. Eastside Prep

Wind sprints, cognitive dissonance, and flow — the felt experience of hard thinking, and why schools should name the discomfort rather than smooth it away. Inspire

The stand-ins teaching relies on, the supports it leans on, and what happens to both when AI makes the proxy trivial to produce. Inspire

AI as a threshold moment on the order of the internet and the smartphone — and a dialogue with Socrates, the author playing Plato, on consciousness and the nature of intelligence. Inspire

Students who direct plays, write apps, or produce albums were contorting their work to fit a research-style independent study. Prototyping a project-shaped one, starting with seven students. Eastside Prep

From volunteer parents and grandparents running the network in 2003 to a school of 530: each technology era at EPS, through the pandemic and a new Middle School. Eastside Prep

Five EPS leaders on the first weeks of closure; my section is on standing up EPSRemote in days for 600 people, ages 10 to 70, on the back of years of earned faculty trust. With Matt Delaney, Paul Hagen, Terry Macaluso, and Sam Uzwack. NAIS Independent Ideas · original (members)

Moving a full school online in under a week — and the questions other organizations were asking as they faced the same call. LinkedIn

No school can prepare students for a future it can’t see. Teach what will always be true, and how to read the world as it is now. Written after the GIX talk. Eastside Prep

In conversation with Dr. Min Sun. Colleague AI podcast

In conversation with Dr. Min Sun. Colleague AI podcast

Dr. Min Sun's companion essay framing our conversation. Colleague AI

In conversation with Head of School Sam Uzwack and Dr. Min Sun of Colleague.AI: what happens when the people building ed-tech move into the school they’re designing for. EPS podcast · all episodes

On navigating a new era of AI in schools with caution and curiosity. GeekWire

At the Exploratorium’s Iron Science Teacher, then a physics teacher at the Bentley School: a golf-ball catapult built from PVC pipe, canned spinach, and duct tape, in ten minutes, on a live webcast. San Francisco Chronicle

Two decades of teaching, rust and all: early lesson plans and workload schedules, rejected proposals, what changed in the classroom, and what former students actually remember. Written for colleagues at Eastside Prep.