Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   I arrived in NYC just before last week’s snowstorm for the BPL Leadership Summit and barring the storm and perhaps even because of it, the time at the Renaissance Hotel on 125 th St and the school visits were all eventful in and of themselves. It was a great gathering. Being from Brooklyn, it was especially memorable. I felt like I was home and that the hard work of so many developing lots of schools and programs in NYC was for me a time of

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder This week, Andrea, Scott and I were on a site visit tour to our California demonstration sites for the California Secondary School Redesign (CSSR) grant. It took quite a bit of preparation by Andrea to put things together with principals and this ensured that our time was very well spent. Also, prior to our school, tour this past Saturday, I met with Melissa Agudelo about work going on at Lincoln High School in San Diego that connects to this

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   Here we go! A great way to start the TGIF with some Big Picture Olive Oil, note the font. You never know what business we are getting into. An article by James Geary taken from his book plucked a set of harmonic overtones for me. Last week at the ImBlaze/B-Unbound meeting when we were discussing how difficult some of this work is, I blurted out , It’s Hard! Now after reading APHORISTIC INTELLIGENCE BEATS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE It’s not just