Chapter NineSchools Are More Creative: Knowledge Is Not Just for Consumption

Toward the end of the first month of my trip, an administrator at a boarding school in upstate Connecticut called me a “Johnny Appleseed,” and I could not have been more proud! What a wonderful way to expand a journey: to gather seeds and spread them along the path. One of those seeds found its way into my teacher’s imagination at the Latin School of Chicago.

The Latin School built an incredible new science center with a video wall, new labs, and the exploratory feel of a children’s discovery museum. Lord only knows what the new center cost, but what impressed me most were not the flashy screens and displays. The real game changer, the seed that I then spread to every ...

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