My most popular blog post by far is, “Teaching: It’s about Inspiration, Not Information.” Readers resonated with the message that the role of a teacher is not to unscrew your skull and pour in knowledge, but to tap into your soul to spark your imagination. …

The current crisis has kicked started everyone’s creativity. For me, this means lots of teaching experiments. I’m trying lots of new approaches to teaching online via Zoom, as well as cooking up a virtual summer internship program, and crafted a set of minimum-viable-lessons on Twitter, called Jolts. To capture the…

It’s May 2020, and thousands of college students across the country and around the world are struggling to find summer internships. The organizations that would normally hire them are instead laying off workers in the face of the global pandemic that is disrupting everything. In response, the Stanford Technology Ventures…

Join us! Tina Seelig and Lisa Kay Solomon from Stanford University will be teaching a free, one week online course from March 30 — April 3, 2020. The course will be taught via Zoom and is open to all. Computer scientist, Alan Kay, famously said, “The best way to predict…

Years ago, I was the parent of a young child and a children’s book author. Both of those led me to fall in love with Klutz Press, co-founded by John Cassidy. …

This week I was surprised to learn that so many of our commonly used terms are racist, sexist, and generally insensitive. For example, Indian Summer, Rain Dance, Sleeping Beauty, Peanut Gallery, Open the Kimono, Eskimo, Hip Hip Hooray, Rule of Thumb, Basket Case, Hysteria, and Knock on Wood, are all…

Today I had a crash course on luck — both good luck and bad luck. I ran a workshop at a conference on how to “See and Seize Opportunities,” and was lucky that everything went smoothly, and the audience was pleased. After my talk, I went outside to have lunch…