[/content/images/wordpress/2010/05/51A1HJ0GVYL.jpg]Watching William Gibson’s “ No Maps for These Territories [http://www.amazon.com/William-Gibson-Maps-These-Territories/dp/B0000D0YT5],” I found one brief moment in the film that resonated with a million other moments in time. The famous science fiction author [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
In the previous installment, I overcame my apprehension at introducing the politicolors, and began to share student responses to political theory. At one time, I had been worried about the abstract nature of such an approach, yet here they were truly excited to use colored pencils in their notes and
When last we met, I was explaining my dread, as I contemplated using Will’s boxes with my 4th-6th classroom. Here was this rich, layered theory, which I still hadn’t mastered; yet, the politicolors had given dimension to the founding, I’d never before imagined. Could I bring them
After a year to digest Will’s colors and boxes, I felt ready to use them with my class. It wasn’t without apprehension. Although I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and re-envisioning the National Academy (primarily through writing and this site), I want to approach mastery before
Those of you at the second week of James Madison and Constitutional Citizenship at Montpelier may have heard about my school and our work with Professor Harris. Our charter high school was created by a group of parents in 1998 with a mission to teach citizenship. From the beginning we