PLT Late Starts - Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

PLT Late Starts - Book Club

Getting ready to start a book club during our PLC/PLT (Personal Learning Community or Team) focused on the bookShop Class as Soulcraft: by Mathew Crawford  
An Inquiry into the Value of Work 

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.
Questions for PLT Group - Tim Castner

Twitter #ShopClassAsSoulcraft

 Link TEDxEast - Matt Crawford - Manual Competence 
https://youtu.be/xdGky1JZovg 

A great read to start the new year! - What Teachers Want Administrators to Know

I have been following  Jennifer Gonzalez on twitter @cultofpedagogy for several years, along with her blog  Cult of Pedagody blog and enjoy reading all her great posts!  Yesterday a colleague recommended I listen to her podcast What Teachers Want Administrators to Know or can read the post, stream online. I decided to download the podcast from this site https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/pod  and listed to it on my way into work this morning.  It was about 20 mintues and at the end of it, I felt the post capture many of the feelings I am hearing from teachers over the last several years.  I hope to share with my colleagues and admin and start a converstation with teachers.  Here's to a postive year of learning!