by Ari Yares | Sep 6, 2016 | 21st Century Learning, Design Thinking, Writings
The school year has started and many educators are already talking about failure. This isn’t the failure that many of us are familiar with from school (not from personal experience, just from being in school. It isn’t the glaringly big red F that we...
by Ari Yares | Jul 12, 2016 | 21st Century Learning, School Psychology, Writings
As a kid, I was always impressed by the list of initials that appeared on the video games at the arcade announcing the high scores (I didn’t at the time realize how many quarters had gone into making that happen). There is something exciting about reaching a...
by Ari Yares | Jun 20, 2016 | Design Thinking, Writings
I have been wondering for a while why I am fascinated with design. Some of it, I’m sure, I picked up while my wife was earning two degrees in communication design, but the fascination didn’t really hit full steam until well after she had finished. What was...
by Ari Yares | Aug 2, 2016 | Writings
The other day, the following quote was posted in a Facebook group on innovation that I participate in. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door” – Coco Chanel, founder of Chanel. My first response was snarky – this is why I...
by Ari Yares | Jun 6, 2016 | Writings
I recently got a text from a colleague with several emoji in it. At the best of times, text messages can be a little complicated to interpret because of their brevity. In fact, earlier that week, that same colleague had texted me back in response to a text about...
by Ari Yares | Jul 12, 2017 | Writings
I’ve stopped listening to the news when I have the kids in the car. Over the summer, my older two children had become news junkies. They would ask me to turn on the radio each time they got in the car. They would be disappointed if there wasn’t a news broadcast for...
