Sustainable Solutions at the Root of our values

I just started volunteering at the Brooklyn Free School to help them beautify their outdoor yard space. I was lead there by Paolo, John and Andrew in different ways. I have been wanting to feel what it was like to be in a learning/living environment that was absolutely free and truly democratic. Even after just [...]

Dewey’s Pedagodic Creed

For anyone out there interested in educational theory, this is a fantastic internet resource:
THE CITATION: Dewey, John (1897) ‘My pedagogic creed’, The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80. Also available in the informal education archives, http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/e-dew-pc.htm.
The one thing I don’t like about this site is how they [...]

Wrong Reason for Unreason

This is a reaction to book writte in response to Susan Jacoby’s book: Age of American Unreason
(This entry was inspired by her appearance on the Colbert Report last night and this article in the NY Times)
Come on, guys. Western Education always has been a colonially structured institution who’s very organization marginalizes and pigeonholes our youth [...]

Food is Renewable Energy

Growing your own food is beneficial on a variety of levels.
Canada’s York University has up quite a comprehensive blog about their Community Garden, I took a particular interest in their page update about their tomatoes.
If you haven’t started your seeds yet, check out this A-Z Gardening post for “seed starting secrets” – even though they [...]

Earth Day Events in NYC

So it just dawned on me that tomorrow is EARTH DAY!
I am going to be running a vermicompost workshop at the Hope Gardens Community Center in the morning, then heading over to the Woodbine Garden to plant some seeds with student groups.

If you can’t join us out in Bushwick, here’s a list of events you [...]

The Season is Here

Welcome.
At Xposure, we are just starting some of our seeds.

The kids planted their own clusters of carrots (above), cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and dahlia flowers. However, my friend Lewis decided to get a head start because he gets such great light in his apartment…

Pictured above: corn, peppers – fantastic city veggie, herbs – these are mint [...]

A Word from the Wise

Above you see a portrait of my grandfather pruning one of the cherry trees in his yard in Plovdiv. Even though he’s lead a busy professional life as an aviation specialist for the government, he’s been growing his own food for 70 years. The cherry he’s pruning in the picture was planted when my little [...]

Life from Scratch

#1 Most Important Substance to life on this planet: H2O!
Here are two examples of the type of approach we take towards our science cirriculum at the Xposure after-school program.

 
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A Crisis of Identity

…in a world where you are what you eat, so there is no telling of who you are.
Often at parties, when I don’t have anything better to talk about, I touch upon this primal fantasy of throwing a spear into a river and scoring a lively fish, which I would then bite into alive. I [...]