I'm Still on an Optical Illusion Kick, Probably Because I Love Working with HS Students About Questioning Everything - to Look Deeper at Their Worlds

When I find them, I put them in a digital pile to add to workshops I give across Connecticut shows to ask young people to tell me what they see, then what they really see. This one came across my feed the other day and I naturally stole it. 

At first they look like a pile of stones, but then when you pull back and focus, you see they also have words for you. The first time I didn't see it, but now that I saw it I can't unsee it. It's the first thing I see...before I see the stones. 

Weird. As is the world.

First week of the spring semester courses have been taught. Today, I actually process the last five weeks and start moving ahead to focus on this semester's batch of students. I also finished a video project and, with a crew of stellar scholars, am getting ready to submit an application that took us months to write. We love to gamble and see what we can get (says the grant writer who gets grants and then needs to implement them).

Speaking of, I have to implement several this semester and need to get on top of the budgets. What's good about the work is that I can invest in teacher leader projects and don't necessarily have to carry out the work myself. I just need to manage their work and then find a way to celebrate how awesome they are with classroom instruction.

It's Thursday. I'm getting a haircut and taking Karal for a longer walk than usual now that the ice has been cleared on the streets. 

I wonder what the stones are crying about.