A reflection on VISST’s progress, challenges and goals at the start of 2024.

How a book about dialogue on college campuses resolved my confusion about declining academic standards.

Thoughts on homework from the 2009 documentary film, Race to Nowhere.

Why vulnerability in the classroom supports student learning.

How and why we’re implementing a “math appreciation” program at VISST.

Our deepest gratitude to our donors for their incredible generosity.

Nobody eats 80 apples in a day!

We wish it could have been!

A controversial topic, but an important one.

The unexpected differences.

Actually, we need both.

What would failure look like for VISST as a school?

Teaching is a deeply challenging and often poorly understood craft.

An analogy can help us with the intuition behind how we add fractions

Knowledge is still important, but it must go deeper than names and labels

Especially as a new school, prospective parents ask us lots of questions on a wide range of subjects. But one question rarely emerges.