Field Report: Balticon
I just got home from being the musical guest of honor at Balticon, an annual science fiction and fantasy convention run by Maryland fen. If you’ve never been to a … Read More
Mom Loves Best
Seventeen years ago(!), Best Beloved did what a lot of first-time moms do: she bought about a dozen books on how to raise Boy Genius the RIGHT way and read … Read More
New website coming soon…
Sometime in the next month or two, you will find the look of our website will change quite a lot. We will still have all the great music etc, but … Read More
Field Report: JoCo Cruise
For the first time in a long time I took a whole week off from both work and family, and I just got home from something totally different. One recent … Read More
Putting the A in STEAM, Part 2: The “One More Thing” Thing
An occasional series on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math. A number of organizations, including GriffinEd, serve schools for free; but money is not the only thing our schools are … Read More
Watch GriffinEd Live At Kulak’s!!!
Okay, we’ve got ways to do this; hopefully at least one of them will work. If you are on FaceBook, go to the GriffinEd FB page (click LIKE while you’re … Read More
Putting the A in STEAM, part 1: the Myth of Expertise
When I started using music and the other arts to help my Title-1 students in LAUSD learn science and math 25 years ago, I hadn’t heard about STEAM yet; I’m … Read More
Fast Pitch is done!
Well, that was a pretty intense eight-week journey. I did about thirty drafts of my pitch, practiced it about a zillion times, made some new friends and a lot of … Read More
Fast Pitch!!!
GriffinEd is terribly excited to announce we have been chosen as semi-finalists in the Social Venture Partners’ Fast Pitch competition. Think “Shark Tank” for nonprofits with grant funding for prizes … Read More
Why music?
I spend a lot of my time explaining to people that GriffinEd isn’t about teaching music, but is instead a program for teaching STEM and other subjects using music as … Read More