Hello Julia Gray, The "possibilities project" is an exciting name, congratulations.
Creative thinkers have adopted some perspectives. Those surely have some basis. For an educator and policy maker, you know fundamentals of collaboration. Many times the direction of collaboration can already be stated by the hierarchy, and ultimately by those who furnish the financing. Substack is different.
Perspectives have to be discussed to find out what is the Possibility Project? Nobody is paying us to stick with the project, so prior agreement is paramount.
We want to make the world "better", but existing world policy might make it seem that we are paddling upstream. Certainly there are inconsistencies. In the short time that I worked in education I found a little window where some new project could be proposed. I worked up a model and submitted it, and while administration was considering the risks, and what parents might object to, it was already mid term. Mid term is when the classes are cramming in all the required lessons, and end term is completely taken up with testing, paper submission, the finals, and grading. Nothing there.
Let's wait until next fall term. Fat chance!
So how will it work this time? If we are reflexive, paying attention to ourselves and others, what can we do differently and better? What are the cultural values outside of us that we have to contend with, but more importantly, what are the cultural values within each of us that we assume are the core of reality?
Surely, how we think controls our doing, and that doing controls our future. Can we question our thoughts, feeling and actions? If we question them, can we make a value judgment and know how to enter into a process to alter anything?
First step; we need an agreed upon model, a verbal realm-of-possibility (like your title). What is our belief of what is possible, and how can we broaden that outlook? First we have to decide that what we think now is incomplete. It is either wrong, or out of date. Then we have to understand where to find options. Most likely it is where we weren't looking before. There must be a knack to it, which is the needed discussion.
I survey Substack, not for so long, but I get around. I have (really) never found substantive discussion. Most are the silent majority. Many share an acknowledgement, with no content examination. Authors are completely focused on building their viewership. They'll say something to be nice, and then get on with it. If they are being paid it is worse, because they feel an obligation to keep the mill producing.
You addressed to people with credentials, like yourself. They will do something to build their credentials. There may be others, but they are few and far between.
Let's find some of them.
My site is a meeting place dedicated to discussion and model building (the basis of future discussion). You might like it. It is willing to collaborate on your project. What do you want from it?
“Curious, courageous, inventive, and loving” is a pretty complete checklist of things to aspire to (and an amazing epitaph).
In solidarity, my friend ♥️😊
Hello Julia Gray, The "possibilities project" is an exciting name, congratulations.
Creative thinkers have adopted some perspectives. Those surely have some basis. For an educator and policy maker, you know fundamentals of collaboration. Many times the direction of collaboration can already be stated by the hierarchy, and ultimately by those who furnish the financing. Substack is different.
Perspectives have to be discussed to find out what is the Possibility Project? Nobody is paying us to stick with the project, so prior agreement is paramount.
We want to make the world "better", but existing world policy might make it seem that we are paddling upstream. Certainly there are inconsistencies. In the short time that I worked in education I found a little window where some new project could be proposed. I worked up a model and submitted it, and while administration was considering the risks, and what parents might object to, it was already mid term. Mid term is when the classes are cramming in all the required lessons, and end term is completely taken up with testing, paper submission, the finals, and grading. Nothing there.
Let's wait until next fall term. Fat chance!
So how will it work this time? If we are reflexive, paying attention to ourselves and others, what can we do differently and better? What are the cultural values outside of us that we have to contend with, but more importantly, what are the cultural values within each of us that we assume are the core of reality?
Surely, how we think controls our doing, and that doing controls our future. Can we question our thoughts, feeling and actions? If we question them, can we make a value judgment and know how to enter into a process to alter anything?
First step; we need an agreed upon model, a verbal realm-of-possibility (like your title). What is our belief of what is possible, and how can we broaden that outlook? First we have to decide that what we think now is incomplete. It is either wrong, or out of date. Then we have to understand where to find options. Most likely it is where we weren't looking before. There must be a knack to it, which is the needed discussion.
I survey Substack, not for so long, but I get around. I have (really) never found substantive discussion. Most are the silent majority. Many share an acknowledgement, with no content examination. Authors are completely focused on building their viewership. They'll say something to be nice, and then get on with it. If they are being paid it is worse, because they feel an obligation to keep the mill producing.
You addressed to people with credentials, like yourself. They will do something to build their credentials. There may be others, but they are few and far between.
Let's find some of them.
My site is a meeting place dedicated to discussion and model building (the basis of future discussion). You might like it. It is willing to collaborate on your project. What do you want from it?
Good to read your site.
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