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Professional Development for Educators - Miss Porter’s School Miss Porter's School offers professional development for educators and independent school leaders with year-round workshops and conferences.

I highly recommend this PD offering from your colleagues at Miss Porter's School in November: Small Changes, Big Impacts. Their faculty/trainers get in the real hands-on of how to shift to competency-based approaches to teaching the learning. www.porters.org/professional...

Merging Wisdom Road and School at Harpeth Hall My new workshop series leverages key lessons from my Wisdom Road journey, and this week I spent a morning with the faculty of Harpeth Hall, an all-girls school

New blog after a fast-paced and hugely generative morning with the faculty at Harpeth Hall School: www.grantlichtman.com/merging-wisd....

This is the most remarkable graphic I have come across in a long time: more than 200 behaviors and explain human reactions and responses. www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/u...

Am visiting Charleston Day School for a #WisdomRoad talk and workshop tomorrow with five other area schools. Loved seeing 8th graders acting as docents at the art museum this afternoon.

Guessing we picked something north of 500 lbs of #avocados from our trees today. Will be making some personal deliveries, and then the San Diego Food Bank folks will be very happy to see me tomorrow. #guacamole #food #foodbank

Wisdom Road NAIS Talk SD 480p YouTube video by Grant Lichtman

If you missed it: my short keynote summarizing my remarkable Wisdom Road journey: 30 weeks, 20K miles, 33 states in search of wisdom, values, and shared humanity that we are at risk of losing. #kindness #humanity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixS...

Wisdom Road NAIS Talk SD 480p YouTube video by Grant Lichtman

Honored to give a short talk on my Wisdom Road project at the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools. Thanks to all of you who helped me along the way; hope for news about book publication soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixS... #education #humanity #kindness #schools

I have never been sure where "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" applies. Not here. Sunrise in Poway, CA and no storms today.

Whew! Took a lot of prep to summarize 30 weeks of Wisdom Road down to a 12 min talk, but the feedback was great! Much more to come.

Anyone else attending NAIS Thrive 2025 posting here on Bluesky or do I still have to use Twitter/X?

I am so stoked that the National Association of Independent Schools decided to borrow the title of my last book, and re-branded their annual conference as the Thrive Conference! :) #education

If the the richest 1 percent own half the world’s wealth, and the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion, I have a very hard time seeing how anyone can argue that trickle-down economics has been anything short of disaster. #humankind #WisdomRoad

One of my favorite quotes from people I interviewed for my upcoming book, Wisdom Road. Mike is a rancher in south Texas. #BeingHuman #kindness #civility

Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity The wealthiest areas in the US are almost 7 times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled since 1960.

At what point will a majority of Americans realize that the radical growth in income disparity is never going to be reversed by trickle down economics? theconversation.com/soaring-weal...

Introduced by our son and daughter in law to acrylic pour painting over the holidays. Loads of fun and practically impossible to mess up. Can only imagine Acid Tests back in the day if they had these! :)

#TDIH
Wounded Knee (Dec. 29, 1890) Never Forget!
The song “Wounded Knee” (Scars) remembers the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed in the massacre carried out by the U.S. Army on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
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Dec. 29, 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre A Lakota encampment on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was attacked by the U.S. Army and close to 300 Native Americans were murdered near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

Remembering our Native brothers and sisters on this anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890 when the US Army murdered more than 300 defenseless old men, women, and children in the snow. My several visits to the site stick with me like few other. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/an...

How DC schools are teaching teens about online misinformation A new DC Public Schools pilot program aims to arm kids with tools to identify online misinformation. The News4 I-Team got a look at the lessons inside Inspired Teaching Public Charter School in Northe...

“It’s critical that schools teach them how to deal with that flood of information that’s coming at them when they consult the internet to learn more about issues.” - UMD professor Sarah McGrew

Good @nbcwashington.bsky.social story about #NewsLiteracy

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Stoked to chat with edu-leaders at Village Community School in NYC; they live their people-centered mission, including adoption of Discussion About Differences time every week; learning and practicing skills of civil engagement so vital to our society's future. #humankind #edusky

Miss Booteé may have been the poorest person I interviewed on #WisdomRoad; on her porch in a poor town in one of the poorest counties in the MS Delta in the poorest state in America. But she was rich in wisdom and a joy to sit and learn from. #humankind

George cleaned the golf cleats of often bigoted White men at a fancy country club in San Antonio for 40 years. This is what he told me when I interviewed him for #WisdomRoad. #humankind #edusky

In San Diego, beautiful winter sunsets often preview Santa Ana winds and fire season, which means we have been without power and internet for two days now. I learned our lesson a few years ago and got a small generator to keep the fridge cold and a few outlets charged!

I am utterly convinced that posting loud political shouts on social media does nothing to change the landscape and merely strengthens the echo chamber. Take deep breaths and focus on what is absolutely most important in our lives. #wisdomroad #humankind

Stockpile those for the middle school years!

One of the very best of all time!

Others have discussed many of these for decades. We'll see what happens when congressmen have to actually vote on them. My guess is they will gut a few things that have almost no impact on the budget.

A new slide for my #WisdomRoad workshop deck; getting into the right head space to engage and learn from someone who is likely VERY different from you in important ways, particularly political.

"A fractal is a way of seeing infinity." ~Benoit Mandelbrot. I find the concept of fractals in so many things beyond math; it applies in much of what we experience in the world around us, including how people think and see life. That's just me. #WisdomRoad #humankind