It's hard to believe that it was only six months ago that we launched the DIG framework. Designed InGenuity is the formal name, but...

I was a freshman at Dayton High School when the Innovate Dayton initiative began to take flight in the school district. During the...

Last week, while Jami's teachers were rolling out the DIG framework to all of their students in Willamina, I was leading a group of...

These are unusual times, for sure. Much of the order we have known in a school day is gone. The building as a gathering place, the...

We gathered a week before spring break. Schools had just closed and we had to meet on a Zoom call because we could no longer be together...

Just weeks ago we gathered in Portland at the Innovate20 conference. We talked about the desire to reimagine education. We talked about...

As humans, we seek connection with one another. At the very core of our existence, we need it. We are all experiencing this time of...

A group of educators and industry professionals have been meeting monthly in McMinnville for over a year as an Innovate meet-up. These...

Last week Wired published an article well worth exploring: Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet. I am sitting and pondering...

Isn’t it strange how the best ideas come when we are most relaxed and open to discovery? I recently attended a workshop from the Billions...

Some authors have recently returned to my 1994 pattern language dubbed EPISODES. This pattern language has been recognized as a founding...

Here, in the Pacific Northwest, we are tree people. Either by birth or by choice. We retreat to the woods, finding solace along forest...

It was two years ago that I first met Thompson Morrison after an introduction by Skip Newberry from the Technology Association of Oregon...

In the New York Times, Lindsay Crouse recently wrote an opinion piece on becoming a marathon runner. This quest forced her beyond who she...

The other day, someone asked Jami if our book was only for educators. She told them it wasn't – that this story is much bigger than just...

Last night I bumped into Mark Lawler and Don Domes at a TAO event. Both played pivotal roles in my journey into education. While I wrote...

Five years ago we had a dream. Sitting around a table with adults and students one day we began to talk about what it could be. Our...

Wow, that was a surprise. Mention the book to a few folks and watch what happens. We just published the book and are waiting to get our...

The book is about to be released. As one of our last steps before publication, we had to put together our acknowledgment page. It turned...