Beginnings

Welcome!  This beginning begins with an acknowledgment regarding the title of this blog.  It comes from  "The Power To Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling  to Life" (Jossey-Bass) 2006, written by Stephanie Pace Marshall (www.stephaniepacemarshall.com) -- a dear friend and former colleague at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.  Steph's seminal book inspires and accelerates the birthing of the movement to transform learning and schooling in order to systemically  liberate  the goodness and genius of youth, by design.  

The blog gives me an opportunity to "go public" with my own learning legacy that derives from a four plus decades-long quest for a radical new story for education, but it also invites contributions  from others who tread the same path and who wish to engage in the dialectic: sharpening our conversation about learning and schooling in search of essential truths for living, learning and teaching.