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Of Resolutions, Humbug, and Community—A Reflective Riff on Scrooge

Posted on December 18, 2025January 4, 2026 By Jay Leonard Schwartz
Of Resolutions, Humbug, and Community—A Reflective Riff on Scrooge

Long before resolutions became annual rituals, Charles Dickens, the nineteenth-century English novelist and social critic, offered a rather effective alternative. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge does not sit down and draft a list of behavioural targets or learning outcomes. He is shown his life—where it came from, how it currently unfolds, and where it is heading if nothing changes.

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Creativity Is Not a Strategy—It’s a Birthright: Reclaiming the Human Side of Teaching in a Testing Culture

Posted on December 1, 2025January 4, 2026 By Jay Leonard Schwartz
Creativity Is Not a Strategy—It’s a Birthright: Reclaiming the Human Side of Teaching in a Testing Culture

In humanistic teaching, creativity is foundational because language itself is creative. Every sentence a learner forms is an act of risk-taking and self-expression. When instruction becomes reduced to test preparation, we mute the very capacities we claim to nurture: voice, imagination, identity.

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