First, thanks for being a subscriber to my Substack, and apologies for the random posting schedule of late. Hoping to get back on schedule this weekend.
Second, if you’ve been reading when I do post, you know we’re in quite a complex moment in the world. (Even if you haven’t been reading, you probably feel it.)
As the end of the school year approaches here in the Northern Hemisphere, I’m wondering how you’re feeling. Joy? Confusion? Sadness? Frustration? A mix of all of that and more?
If that resonates, you’re not alone. Growing numbers of educators are feeling a growing dissonance between the education experiences we’re currently creating for kids and the realities of the real world.
Which is the main reason I created the Confronting Education workshop: a safe yet challenging learning space for anyone seeking understanding and community in this moment of upheaval. I’m humbled that over 150 people have signed on to do this work over the last year, many with powerful results.
“Will is a harbinger of the realities that are facing education and humanity. He has been able to gather cohorts of experienced educators and provide a space to talk about the alarming problems we are seeing every day. He’s created a support group as well as an engine of loving, intelligent and mature educators who might just change the world. I am thankful to be a part of this group.”
~Carla Gipson Van Farowe, Instructor, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
I want to invite you to join us this summer for Cohort 5 if:
– You feel the ground shifting under “school as usual,” and you have almost nowhere honest to talk about it.
– You can’t unsee the gap between what your school is doing and what this moment of complexity, chaos, and collapse is asking of us.
– You’re carrying a lot of quiet frustration, grief, or disbelief about your work in schools, and you’re tired of holding it alone.
– You suspect that schooling as we know it is part of the problem, but you’re not sure where to take that realization.
– You’re a learner at heart—reading, listening, paying attention—and you’re longing for a serious community to think, feel, and imagine with.
– You want to keep showing up for young people with integrity, even as you doubt that tweaks to the current system will be enough.
If you decide to join in this work and community, I’d like to offer a special subscriber-only discount of 20% off whatever tier you choose to register at. Just add the word SUBSCRIBER in the line for promotional code.
Cohort 5 starts in less than a month. The conversations that we have to be having as educators right now have already started.
Join us to add your voice.
With gratitude,
Will
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