“Among the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard anyone say came from my student Bethany, talking about [...] how she wanted to be as a teacher, and what she wanted her classrooms to be: ‘What if we joined our wildernesses together?’” brainpickings.org/2019/12/01/ros…

From a while ago, but always always worth a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/25srDr…

When u cant take the holiday drama anymore Whit-knee 🦵🏼

Sundays are #SesameSundays. We're proud to partner with Sesame Street in Communities, which provides resources to for parents, caregivers, and early education providers to help kids be resilient. Today's message focuses on comforting kids in stressful times. ow.ly/tonz50ynDVs

Painted for the first time to celebrate a quarantined anniversary. #LearningInsideOut #GettingThrough

#BuildKCI alert: Beginning April 28, the traffic pattern at @KCIAirport will change and remain that way through the opening of the new terminal. Read more here: ow.ly/AK4w50zeh9B

We’ve had some dapper guests visit the museum before but these little tuxedoed visitors are our favorites. The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium treated the penguins to a little culture before the Zoo re-opens. Watch an extended video on our website bit.ly/2yMoYP2.

This is Christian Cooper.

Perhaps the greatest anti-slavery speech ever uttered is “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” by Frederick Douglass, in 1852. I wanted to make the speech more accessible. Here’s a thread with an abridged version of the speech we should reread every #FourthofJuly. 1/

"Recycling can also be a lesson in the art of attention, of noticing the many and diverse relationships between humans and waste. We can begin to ask ourselves questions: How does waste enter my household? ..." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/recycling-is-n…

Please take this brief survey on air travel. We teamed up with KC Chamber, Glorina Chan and KC Civic Council to gain insights. We want to hear from you, so please give us your feedback! #KC #Travel surveymonkey.com/r/NTX5797

Mas texted this to me saying “literally you” and I am so so honored

I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. —Roque Dalton, tr. Jack Hirschman (from Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination from Curbstone Press, ed. Martín Espada)

Hey there! Guess what! Godcast is coming back after quite a hiatus. Our first interview back is with Alex Cook, whose murals appear across the united states and internationally. In the meantime, you can check out his work at stonebalancer.com and youarelovedmurals.com

Transforming Student Engagement Through Dialogue: 3 Approaches for Every Classroom gettingsmart.com/2021/03/transf… via Getting Smart Danielle Isbell Essential Partners

Wrote a piece with John Sarrouf for Getting Smart on education and dialogue. Check it out below !!

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There's a word you should *just* never use when describing a person, because it erases all the nuance of their experiences and views. Learn how to cultivate curiosity and relationships across differences at an upcoming EP workshop: whatisessential.org/workshops

Birds give up the complexity of song for volume in noisy places - so they sing louder but less interesting (to both humans & mates) songs in cities. When traffic noise in San Francisco fell due to COVID, birds began to sing more complex, quieter songs like they did 50 years ago!