The Smallest Useful Sustainability Retrofit
How to deepen a lesson without rebuilding it
Teaching for a Complex World
Exploring sustainability, systems thinking, and education—translating complex global ideas into practical tools and perspectives for teachers.
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From Concern to Capacity
How educators can turn sustainability concern into meaningful practice
The Education Terms Showing Up in Schools, Policies, and Ballot Debates
A practical guide to climate literacy, civic learning, green schools, sustainability, and ESD
What Makes a Musical Life Possible?
Music, work, access, value, and the economic systems sounding beneath everyday life
The Living Foundation Beneath Every Music Classroom
Exploring Clean Water, Climate Action, Life Below Water, and Life on Land Through Music Education
The Cafeteria and the Concert
Hunger, breath, and the eight goals hiding inside a single rehearsal
SDG 1: Who Gets to Be a Music Kid?
What poverty is doing in the music room — and the one thing a teacher can actually do about it.
I Care About Sustainability. But What Does That Have to Do With Me?
You’re already doing this work. Nobody told you what it’s called.
SDG 4: What Does It Mean to Teach Well?
On quality education, sustainability, and why teachers may already be closer to this work than they think.
Why Music Educators Need to Know About the SDGs
A reader asked me to explain the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and how they connect to education. I realized I'd been writing around them for months without ever introducing them. So here's the explanation I wish someone had handed me — and why I'm starting with Goal 4.