01 / Learning
Dovetails
Engaging 10-problem math puzzles aligned to grade-level standards that help reinforce concepts and build capacity. Built to advance students over a 36-week school year K-8, and a high school review set.
Blackbird502 / field notes 0136° 4′ N / 79° 6′ W
Collaboration, Beauty, & Joy.
A studio built out of multiple interests and efforts all aimed at improving our lives through collaboration, connection, and the pursuit of beauty & joy.
A field of practices
Many ways to engage. One open studio.
02 / Formation
Plumb Line Precepts
A year-long (or semester-long) character formation curriculum built around sixteen precepts to help guide middle school, high school, or even college-age students. Heck, even the emerging adult in all of us!
03 / Teacher learning
Chalk Line
We take away the barriers for teachers, so they can share their expertise in the field and make supplemental income. We have to help teachers have more sustainable careers in education.
04 / Ministry
Grow. Gather. Give.
A garden and kitchen ministry for the whole church — planting, cooking, and sending the harvest out to neighbors, with children, families, and the whole congregation sharing in each step.
05 / Art
Arts502
Artwork & Photography capturing beautiful moments around us every day.
Studio note
We begin with what you bring.
Blackbird502 works at the meeting point of learning, wellbeing, and creative practice. We make room for inquiry and wonder, practical application, and the value of joy and beauty in life.
Nature is not simply the outdoors here. It is a teacher: cyclical, symbiotic, peculiar, and beautiful. The studio stays open to the people, materials, and ideas that help us grow and thrive.
A practice of attention / not a fixed method
For educators
Chalk Line makes it easy for teachers to support other teachers.
Bring your own expertise forward. Let us build the course for you. We need to support human educators as the stewards of our children's future.
For churches
Grow. Gather. Give. brings the garden back to the congregation.
A garden and kitchen ministry for churches in central North Carolina — written for the space you have, the calendar you keep, and the people already gathered.
An open invitation
Begin a conversation with the studio.
For collaborations, learning design, coaching, or a question that has not found its form yet.
Write to Blackbird502OPEN / 502