The Upper Arlington High School R&D Lab has been up and running for a little over a year now, and we have had a number of proposals make their way to the Steering Committee. All along, the goal of our group has been to lend an ear, to offer support and to create a space for new ideas to live, to be tested, to succeed or to fail, to evolve, shift course or provoke further conversation. From Bear Prints, our high school print shop, to the teacher supported, student-run Help Des

This past Fall, Susan Cunningham and I began offering Urban Zen Integrative Therapy™ (UZIT) one day a week to the teachers, staff and administrators at Wickliffe Progressive Elementary School in Central Ohio. The commitment in this school to progressive education and caring for the whole child is taking root in a new way. The administration’s support of UZIT says loud and clear to all of the staff of the school—you can’t take care of the children you serve unless you also tak