Amy Collier joins me to talk about not yet-ness, geekiness, Jazzercise, Stevie Ray Vaughan, teaching, and learning.

Guest: Dr. Amy Collier

Stevie Ray Vaughan sings Mary Had a Little Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cGphy7XeZk

The great thing about Lego is that it gives kids these tools and they don’t have to be built a certain way.” – Amy Collier

Vaughn builds Lego with instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=nMohv6GQBHc

Vaughn builds Lego without instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRXtAcHIGq4

You can work with students to do something related to what you’re talking about in class, but they can find creative ways to do things you might not have predicted.” – Amy Collier

…finding out what drives them, keeps them coming back, and helping them find their own voice – that’s what education is about. That’s where I find the most joy.”

When you embrace not yet-ness, you are creating space for things to continue to evolve.” – Amy Collier

By not creating space for those things, we end up creating a more mechanistic approach to education, rather than something that feels more human and more responsive to our humanity.” – Amy Collier

How do we evolve the ways in which we understand what learning is?” – Amy Collier

Amy invites us to consider for which students not yet-ness works best and for which students might it cause some kind of disequilibrium that will cause them not to be successful in their educational experience?

Doug McKee’s advice: “Your job is to move them one step along a path. You can do that job no matter where they are when they enter your class.”

Anne Lammot

“These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.” – Anne Lammot

We are human and our dance is one of the things that we bring to a human interaction.” – Amy Collier