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“Never,” was the answer. The question? “Do you ever have conversations in school that touch on the changes that are happening in the world that will affect your life outside of school?” H...

https://willrichardson.com/never-2/

Goodbye Twitter. Goodbye Chrome. Neither was easy. I was there for early-Twitter, and it was love-hate from the beginning. I loved the ease, the networking, the linking, and, yes, the learning. I...

https://willrichardson.com/tech-cleanse/

(1/4 Newsletter Repost) First, Happy New Year! May 2023 bring us all good health, deeper relationships, and as much joy as we can handle! With those aspirations in mind, we want to tee up some of...

https://willrichardson.com/five-themes-for-educators-in-2023/

(Note: I originally wrote this in July, 2016. I wish I could say that we’d evolved since then into a much more sane, loving, enlightened, literate, just society. But as you’ll see, almost all...

https://willrichardson.com/schools-in-a-time-of-chaos/

With respect to those who stand in awe of all that’s changed about schools in the past few months, I would ask “what’s actually changed?” I don’t mean to minimize the incredible work th...

https://willrichardson.com/has-this-crisis-really-changed-schools/

As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at scale, I can’t help but be reminded of a pivotal scene i...

https://willrichardson.com/to-create-the-new-normal-of-education-start-with-the-old-normal-of-learning/

Right now, we have millions of parents shouldered up to their children trying to help them do school. I’m reading a fair share of both funny and sad accounts of parents who are trying to naviga...

https://willrichardson.com/the-parent-opportunity/

I’ve been thinking more about story since writing this recent post, and I’ve come across some more reading and thinking that I’m trying to make sense of. (If you haven’t read that post, t...

https://willrichardson.com/more-on-stories-more-on-goods/

At some point in the last couple of months, someone recommended that I read Seth Kreisberg’s 1992 book Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education. To whomever that person is, si...

https://willrichardson.com/on-power-and-climate-change/

I’ve been expending a lot of bandwidth lately reading and thinking about the meta story of school, not just the history of the system and of pedagogy, but, more specifically, the motivations be...

https://willrichardson.com/school-as-fiction/