Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   Going down the rabbit hole     A couple of weeks ago Andrew asked me to dig up all the research I could find that was done on BPL and our schools. He wanted all of these reports for the research advisory team of Andrew, Jennifer Pam and I led by Eliot Levine to develop a BPL research agenda for the Impact Campaign. Today I sent Andrew over 70 research reports that I and Scott Boldt found. In retrospect, what I learned going through them was

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   Shallow Dives – Essays on the Craft of. Manual Care   “The unique artful expressions of the body that make us human cannot be measured or easily interpreted. No graph can contain them; no normative values can be assigned to them. And my failing as a serious researcher probably lies in the fact that I cannot ignore them.” Dorka   “Tom said he can see that the insurance industry is beginning to eliminate the reading mechanism we call the docto

Are you with me now? A. J. Ryder   "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."  – Bruce Lee    Like I mentioned last week, when you hang out with people from different places and fields of interest you get a different picture of assessment and measurement that can help us understand how to do things first differently and then better.   Gone to the Dogs Above is one of my favorite dogs, the Transmontano Mastiff, a Portugues breed. This dog can easily w