Community Within the Community
For the past three years Iridescent has provided hands-on science courses at ~ 30 schools in the downtown Los Angeles area. However, in order to provi...
Read MoreWhat 106 Los Angeles teachers think and believe
Robyn Hightower developed and conducted a teacher survey for the teachers in 8 of our partner schools (N= 106). Here are some of the interesting corre...
Read MoreWhat is the difference between an engineer and a teacher?
I have been reading a really interesting book on engineering called, “To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful design“. One...
Read MoreHow do you teach persistence?
We recently had a chance to do something pretty unusual – have the students work with kits (we usually have the students build/design their mode...
Read MoreWisdom from Luke Sullivan – applied to life, grant writing, presentations and running an organization.
I read Luke Sullivan’s book Hey Whipple, Squeeze This and was amazed at how universally relevant his advice was. Here are some excerpts from the...
Read MoreAttention to detail. The Europeans sure do it right!
Maybe the Japanese do it right too, but I haven’t been to Japan. We recently came back from a little vacation in Germany and Italy and the first...
Read MoreWe all need approval and validation
I have developed a pretty thick skin (or so I like to think), but am still vulnerable when people appreciate our work 🙂We recently interviewed a pa...
Read MoreCrime in LAUSD schools
Our Urban School Needs Map project is humming along. The project is super cool with many far-reaching ramifications. The goal is to develop a visualiz...
Read MoreBeauty
I love beautiful things – paintings, photographs, flowers, mountains, melodies and writing. I try and share some of this appreciation along with...
Read MoreHow to start a used bookstore
While wandering in New Orleans (for the NSTA conference), I came across a lovely used bookstore (Crescent City Books). Since I am interested in develo...
Read MoreShould you pay students to go to school?
I just came back from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference in New Orleans. It was not as intense as my last year’s experi...
Read MoreALOUD Business Forum: Fresh Approaches to Branding and Marketing
So I just went to a business forum event in downtown Los Angeles. It was great! Before the details and lessons that I picked up vanish, I’m goin...
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