Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   And them Nashville Cats Play clean as country water. Nashville Cats Play wild as mountain dew. Nashville Cats Been playing since they's babies. Nashville Cats Get work before they're two.   John Sebastian   Well those lines just about sum up the staff and students that we met in Nashville at our ImBlaze/B-U retreat. It was a blessing to be face to face with our team coming from as far away as India. It was a blessing to be in the school with

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder  There’s been a flurry of activity right before the holidays. From getting foundation reports ready for the end of the year to continuing the work around the IBPLC, B-Unbound, Harbor Freight and California Redesign of Secondary Schools everything keeps moving along. Also, Pam and I continued writing our book on meaning and mattering in the age of AI with a focus on BPL. Perhaps the most challenging work this week was the meetings around the IB

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   Far below the Northern Lights    I wish I was in Texas Swinging on a steady roll… Taj Mahal – Texas Woman Blues Well…. This week the entire BPL Team was in Dallas, Texas with loads to get to on the agenda from the upcoming Big Bang this summer to a discussion of the vision and mission of BPL focused on the Impact Campaign to doing community service and finding LTI’s for Big Bang and also just having time to play.   This time we were a much b