World Wit

Remember that kid in your third-grade class who lit up like a firecracker every time the teacher pulled out the blocks for a building project? Yeah, me too—that was little me, stacking away while everyone else buried their noses in worksheets. Turns out, there was more to my glee than just avoiding math drills. It […]

Hey there. Picture this: It’s a crisp fall morning in 2015, and I’m standing in front of a classroom full of wide-eyed eighth graders in a small town outside Chicago. I’d just finished my first year teaching history, and one kid—let’s call him Alex—raises his hand with that classic skeptical look. “Mr. G, why bother […]

Hey there, fellow educator or aspiring course creator—ever stared at a blank screen, coffee in hand, wondering how to turn a jumble of ideas into a program that actually sticks with people? I have. Back in my early days as an instructional designer for a small nonprofit, I poured weeks into a workshop on community […]

Picture this: It’s 2020, and I’m staring at my laptop screen, trying to wrangle a class of 25 squirmy seventh-graders into a virtual breakout room. One kid’s cat just photobombed the whole thing, and another swears his Wi-Fi “ate his homework.” Chaos? Sure. But that mishmash of frustration and breakthroughs was my first real dive […]

Picture this: It’s the first day back at school after summer break, and I’m standing in the hallway of my old high school, clipboard in hand, trying to wrangle 30 teenagers into their new classrooms. Chaos everywhere—kids darting like escaped lab rats, a forgotten backpack spilling pencils across the floor, and the vice principal yelling […]