This book would not exist without my friend and co-author, Patrick Ball. Patrick was with me through every stage of writing and rewriting, originally envisioning this project as a blog before expertly editing it into the book you are about to read. I owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude, not only for his editorial eye and his patient computer coaching as we navigated the digital age together, but for our deeply shared philosophy of human development.
Our shared hope is that we can reimagine our schools as places where students are free to engage with one another, discover who they are, and find teachers who know how to guide their innate curiosity. The School of Two Thousand Smiles is our vision of what is possible when we change the way we teach.
We hope this story offers a roadmap for how we might get there together.
