the reweave blog

essays worth sitting with.

on curiosity. on empathy. on what changes when a lesson has a real person in it.

wordless films empathy curiosity real-world math Tony Wagner research
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what is a wordless film?

no narration. no subtitles. no one telling you what to think. just a real person, in their actual world, and whatever you notice.

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empathy

teaching empathy: what actually works.

most empathy curricula talk about empathy. that is exactly the problem.

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curiosity

curiosity is a muscle.

the average five-year-old asks a hundred questions a day. then something happens we call school.

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math

what happens when math has a person in it?

a word problem is not the same as a real problem. here is what changes when you can see whose numbers they are.

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whole-child learning

the whole child is not an add-on.

what does it mean to teach a subject without the person doing the learning?

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wordless films

video does not have to be passive.

the narration is usually the problem. here is what happens when it is gone.

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Tony Wagner

empathy and curiosity as a muscle.

neither is a trait you have or lack. both are capacities that develop with use -- and weaken without it.

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homeschool

global studies that starts with a person.

not a country. not a region. not a fact to memorize. a person, in their actual world.

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