Hello colleagues, peers, fellow teachers, and friends. For those of you who have been following my trials and tribulations on Twitter you know that it has been a roller coaster ride of almosts and not quite so’s. But I have finally realized that I need to get back to work. I may not have a classroom or a paying job, but I need to reconnect with students and other teachers. In short I need to teach!

I have been thinking about what role my classroom blog, Intrepid Classroom, could take during this time of involuntary sabbatical. I have been thinking about this transformation for several weeks, and I think I finally have enough structure to re-launch the site with some tangible goals and a compressible philosophy.

I hope that after visiting the site and reading the opening post of the Blog and the about page, you will use it as a resource for your students and invite them to enter the conversations at the Intrepid Classroom. I hope that this site will become an independent place for middle and high school students from around the world to come, meet, learn, teach, and share ideas. I hope to act as facilitator, social-network liaison, web 2.0 tutor, presenter, performer, observer, and organizer.

I want the site to focus on the following topics: conflict resolution, global sustainability, peace activism, music and art as agent for social change, technology as a tool for social justice, and any other topics the readers of the blog suggest.

In short, I want the site to be a place that students find interesting and entertaining, but also a place where they can challenge, not only mass media produced propaganda, but also their own entrenched culture beliefs.

Please read the introduction to the new Intrepid Classroom and share the link with as many educators and students that you know. Let’s see if we can create something special for both teachers and students. I would love to have guest contributors. People like Clarence Fischer, Clay Burell, George Mayo, Diane Cordell, and Lindsea come to mind as potential friends of the Intrepid Classroom.

If you want to get involved please leave suggestions or ideas in the comment section below.