Our Daily Reading List

At Big Thought, we believe it's important to stay informed about everything that's going on in the arts, education, public policy and the news in general. Our work demands that we be familiar with the trends in our industry and the latest research; to keep our knowledge current, we read several blogs every day.

Our Internal Communications Manager scours the web daily to send the staff and board of Big Thought the "Daily News" - a compendium of education, policy and arts-related articles and blog posts from the likes of Eduwonk, the Dallas Morning News' Dallas ISD Blog and Americans for the Arts' Artsblog, among others. These articles help us stay abreast of everything from TAKS score reports for the Dallas ISD to opportunities for advocacy on the state and national levels to studies on the benefits of charter and early-college schools.

Since our work is so deeply entrenched in the North Texas community, we also find time to read local news blogs like D Magazine's FrontBurner and SweetCharity, KERA's Art & Seek and the Dallas Observer's Unfair Park. In addition, since our work is centered on increasing the number and quality of creative learning experiences for children of all ages, we frequent local "Mommyblogs" like the Fort Worth Star Telegram's Mom2MomDFW and BurbMom to read about what local parents do with their children and what additional educational opportunities they're seeking. These resources keep us in tune with the sentiment of our local community, which is very important for our work.

Finally, we like to indulge our inner nerd every once in awhile with blogs like Imagine That! from Psychology Today and the TED blog. Imagine That! always features great new statistics and scientific evidence for the importance of imagination and creative learning on brain development - topics dear to our hearts, minds and mission. The TED blog brings us inspiration through their coverage of wide-ranging topics from education policy to healthcare to climate change.

If you are a parent, educator or donor interested in staying current like us, check out our brand-spankin'-new Daily Reading List on the right-hand side of the blog. It's still a work in progress, but it features many of the blogs and websites we visit daily to keep ourselves in-the-know. Have ideas/suggestions about other useful blogs? We love to discover new things! Leave us a comment to tell us what you read!