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Senior year of high school my best friend and I (exploring what it meant to be "idealists") interviewed four different people (friends of our baby boomer parents' friends) who had lived on communes during the 60s. We wanted to know what had worked and what didn't in their experimental communities and which experiences they revisited the most and why? We learned so much from how touched and highly emotional everyone was to relive their years of "creating a little society," and how they reflected on some big mistakes  with fondness.

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I don't cook. Now, I pretend I do. But i'm learning everyday.

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When I was station manager of our district TV and radio stations, I was learning every single day about production, but also had to teach what I was learning to young high schoolers. Learning TO teach was amazingly gratifying.

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We had this thing in high school called Research & Service, basically a class where we were in mixed age groups and did community service oriented projects. Tom Juvan, an incredibly talented English teacher, recognized that my friend and I were super passionate about Graffiti and film making and created a Research & Service project that allowed us to follow those interests, resulting in a documentary film about Graffiti in Burlington Vermont 🎥

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Taking manual skills learned at an Appalachian chair making workshop and applying them to a variety of furniture parts using in pieces I built over the years

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As a kid, I was obsessed with amusement parks. The feeling I got building full-out park experiences in Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 (the greatest game in all the lands), and learning about design, space, and structure, was incredible.

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The summer I was eight my sister and I set-up a business selling golf balls back to the golfers that hit their balls into our backyard. Noticing our success, some neighbor kids tried to do the same thing. Feeling very passionate that this was my idea, I convinced all the neighborhood kids that if we started "the same company" that advertised all around the golf course we could make more money. Being the self appointed banker I would go around and collect everyone's money throughout the day. That summer we made about $500 and used it to throw a party right before school started. The next year the golf course put a stop to our little venture - but it left us all with a lasting impression about the power behind business growth

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It wasn't the most glamorous job, but learning how to use/sanitize dental tools that were used IN KIDS' MOUTHS was kind of crazy.

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In my senior year of college, i had a moment of doubt that teaching was in fact the right thing for me. i decided that i needed to experience something different before I graduated with a degree I might not in fact actually want. I applied for and got an internship at NYU Law with the Center for Community Problem Solving, working on re-entry programming. I had to go around NYC to interview people at various CBOs and nonprofits to understand what programming they offered to those who were returning to their community from prison for a guidebook we were creating.  I was so terrified on my first few cold calls and visits! i learned so much about myself, what was important to me and how I could push my professional edge and be just fine.

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We wanted to have an app to allow teachers use some parts of Orton Gillingham method.

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Using Adult behavioral principles to manage the expectations/hopes/dreams of colleagues at a new school

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Every time I've made a film, whether a short or a feature-length doc, I've applied my learning into realizing something tangible. The feeling of fulfillment at the end is like no other.

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When I was 12, I got a job as a paper boy. I delivered an afternoon paper each day between 3:30 and 5 to 25ish people. I rode my bicycle around to do this. On Wednesday evening, I went to each house and "collect" the $2.50 weekly cost of their papers.  That Thursday, I took the $40 I collected and played video games for 2 hours, spending all but $10. That night, the paper route lady gave me a call and told me that I owed the company $30, a big problem. I cried, my mom bailed me out, and I paid her back over the coming weeks. I learned so much about budgeting, self-regulation, and compassion through that experience.

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When I was the editor for my high school's creative arts and literary magazine. . 

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When I was the editor for my high school's creative arts and literary magazine. . 

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I was able to understand the skills needed to execute shared publication goals and set out to learn design programs, creating rubrics for admissions, managing editors, organizing print schedules etc. I also led the culminating project-a publication launch and celebration with readings and gallery exhibition.

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WhenI learn new techniques to work with inks.

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WhenI learn new techniques to work with inks.

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I usually research artists and then try and combine their techniques.

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As a research project in university, I built a quadcopter with a friend

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Took a javascript class so that I could build my friend a website

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Took a javascript class so that I could build my friend a website

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So extremely satisfying 😊

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I had a vision for software that I wanted for my own writing process. At the time I lacked many of the skills that I needed to build such software, and the project looked very daunting. I started to break the projects down into small pieces that I could individually accomplish. A few years later I could put pieces that I had built previously together into a cohesive product.

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Made time in my schedule to practice every day, looked for resources like movies and youtube videos, learned at my own pace, studied music and books that were interesting to me, motivated myself with dumplings!

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One time we had this assignment to make a tower that would survive in an earth quake simulator. It was awesome because the feedback was super quick (We could test it all the time on our simulator) I got so into it, I worked with the custodian to use his drilling tools and installed springs at the base of my tower. My teacher was totally open to letting me try out new and different ideas. I loved it.

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Every day at Alt, when I learn to address the needs of my students. 

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Every day at Alt, when I learn to address the needs of my students. 

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I took Spanish in 8th grade, but my teacher mostly read a newspaper while the class did Spanish word searches. I got a Spanish 1 textbook from my cousin, made a ton of flash cards, and studied on my own. I took a placement test at my high school and got into Espanol II Avanzado. Hollerrrr

I took this experience with me to high school. It made me trust my instincts as a learner and I believed I could grow and change.

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I was passionate about positive psychology and how important it was to measure non-cognitive skills, especially in at-risk youth. I aligned myself with the right mentors, resources, and experiences to learn as much as I could over two years, and then launched a non-profit that focused on building grit, resilience, and agency in at-risk youth. At every single stage, I was deciding what I learned, and it was always aligned with a real need for learning.