01 / Learning
Dovetails
Engaging 10-problem math puzzles aligned to grade-level standards that help reinforce concepts and build capacity. Built to advance students over a 36-week school year K-8, and a high school review set.
Blackbird502 / field notes 0138° 15′ N / 85° 46′ W
Collaboration, Joy, & Beauty.
A studio built out of multiple interests and efforts all aimed at improving our lives through collaboration, connection, joy, and beauty.
A field of practices
Many ways to engage. One open studio.
02 / Formation
Plumb Line Precepts
A year-long (or semester-long) character formation curriculum built around sixteen precepts to help guide middle school, high school, or even college-age students. Heck, even the emerging adult in all of us!
03 / Leadership
Horizon Line
Feedback and transformational practices for anyone who wants to make meaningful change as a professional, educator, or human being.
04 / Teacher learning
Chalk Line
We have created a platform that takes away the barriers for teachers, so they can share their expertise in the field and make supplemental income, so they have a more sustainable career.
05 / Curriculum
Grow. Gather. Give.
Grow. Gather. Give. applies a seed to table methodology to education, immersing students in a cross-curricular, holistic experience in nature, nutrition, health and well-being.
06 / Art
Arts502
Artwork & Photography attempting to capture beautiful moments around us every day.
Studio note
We begin with what you bring.
Blackbird502 works at the meeting point of learning, wellbeing, and creative practice. We make room for inquiry and wonder, practical application, and the value of joy and beauty in life.
Nature is not simply the outdoors here. It is a teacher: cyclical, symbiotic, peculiar, and beautiful. The studio stays open to the people, materials, and ideas that help us grow and thrive.
A practice of attention / not a fixed method
For educators
Chalk Line makes it easy for teachers to support other teachers.
Bring a practice you know deeply. Shape it into a continuing-education course, then offer live coaching to fellow educators.
For school leaders
Horizon Line begins with an honest picture.
Start with a self analysis, then a 360 evaluation, before engaging in transformational practices.
An open invitation
Begin a conversation with the studio.
For collaborations, learning design, coaching, or a question that has not found its form yet.
Write to Blackbird502OPEN / 502