Cross posted at Always Learning Thanks to our wonderful and supportive Principal & Vice Principal, this past Tuesday, Tara, Jeff and I had the opportunity to present to the ES Faculty about the work that our ISB21 Team has been doing over the past few years. We were thrilled to be given the chance to present to the full staff (a total of around 70 classroom and specialist teachers) not only because we are so excited about what we’ve been doing, but also because we felt that a full-staff me

James Thurber, “The 13 Clocks” (New York Review Children’s Editions, 2008) Seth Lerer, “Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History” (University of Chicago Press, 2008) It wasn’t a dark and stormy night. Most likely, it was a long, boring summer afternoon at my English grandparents’ Oxfordshire country house. I would have been rambling around the motionless house—where the ticking of an antique clock in the kitchen reverberated through several rooms—looking for a means of entertaining myself. Up

NEW VIDEO: SKILLZ- “FOR REAL” x RIK CORDERO Author: LexAve // Category: New Video Skillz - “For Real” from Three/21 Films on Vimeo Check out Rik Cordero’s latest directorial master piece for Skillz new project “For Real” off his new album Million Dollar Backpack. Something about the video brings me back to LL Cool J’s “Hey Lover” days…. But back to Rik Cordero, peep the video clip below where XXL’s Carl Chery chops it up with the director on artistic integrity. Realtalk, I’m gla

'Ray Harryhausen Presents' Moves from Print to Screen Stop-motion Picture from Hand Made Films The success of Ray Harryhausen Presents; The Pit and the Pendulum, a short stop motion animated film produced by Hand Made Heroes Film & Television has resulted in a comic book deal with Bluewater Productions. When Bluewater President Darren G. Davis and Director Marc Lougee of Hand Made Heroes discovered they were both producing work independently under the Ray Harryhausen Presents banner, Bluewa

November 30, 2008 What lessons can we learn from the shutdown of the 1999 WTO Ministerial in Seattle 9 years ago today and from the last decade and a half of global justice organizing as we face today’s major crises under an Obama Administration? This was the question a group of organizers from different parts of the last decades of global justice organizing responded to last week at a forum in New York City put together by Deep Dish TV, an independent video/media pioneer. Here are my t