door cilawarncke@gmail.com | jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Laying learning’s foundationUnlocking life-long learningHow can educators empower students to succeed in a world of hyper-speed change?As information diminishes in importance, the value of learning how to learn increases. Safety, agency and integration are key,...
door cilawarncke@gmail.com | jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Laying learning’s foundationWhat do students need to succeed?Conventional answers include materials, methodology, technology, which are useful. But the absolute must-haves are safety, agency and integration. They are of particular significance to the gifted,...
door Ersun Warncke | jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Celebrating where life and learning intersect One of the most delightful student conversations I’ve had recently began with my ritual, How was your weekend? query.His polite expression vanished in a glow: “I caught a seven-pound bass.”The few minutes that followed...
door Ersun Warncke | jun 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Opening the door to your mind College application essay season is getting underway and I’m looking forward to coaching a new cohort of brilliant teenagers as they craft personal narrativesBrainstorming is crucial to this process, and I love creating fun exercises to...
door Ersun Warncke | jun 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Five ways writing enhances professional successA friend of mine who is a performance and intelligence consultant (i.e., crunches numbers then tells executives how to recruit, plan, and deploy budgets) told me his recent posting is likely to be extended because...
door Ersun Warncke | mei 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Finding answers within, and between, the lines“No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.” ~ Matsuo BashoSeventeenth-century poet and Zen Buddhist Basho was an extraordinary poet whose...
door Ersun Warncke | mei 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Creativity, conformity and keeping yourself realI wanted to see The Face: Culture Shift at the National Portrait Gallery badly enough to plan a trip to London around it. Booked flights. Bought an NPG annual membership. Found a house sitter. Arranged meetings....
door Ersun Warncke | mei 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Helping exceptional students excel Why do some intellectually exceptional students fail to excel?Our hyper-mechanistic, Social Darwinian culture tends to assume — ignoring millennia of evidence — that the race is to the swift and the battle to the strong. Yet we see...
door Ersun Warncke | mei 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Once in a dry season…”This week, Substack has loomed over me like a, well, smokestack. Every time I look up it’s there, towering, casting a shadow.There are plenty of times I feel short on writing inspiration, plenty of times it takes effort to get...
door Ersun Warncke | apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘The Weight’ I write an awful lot about writing in this newsletter, but it occurs to me I rarely share my own creative work. So, this week, I’d like to highlight an essay that was published in the literary journal Syncopation. While I trust the writing to...
