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Someone very close to me has a wonderful saying. L says, when things seem uncommonly difficult, “It’s like pushing custard uphill”. That’s one incredibly descriptive phrase! That is how I have felt the last two weeks. Everything seems to be taking longer than it should, and be much more difficult than it should.

I heard this quote at the iSummit today, and it completely sums up what we’re trying to do with the Open High School of Utah: You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller

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Several readers have asked or emailed about access to the Open High School of Utah’s charter application documents. They are now online for your reviewing and reusing pleasure! http://openhighschool.org/documents/ The documents are licensed CC By 3.0.

Several readers have asked or emailed about access to the Open High School of Utah’s charter application documents. They are now online for your reviewing and reusing pleasure! http://openhighschool.org/documents/ The documents are licensed CC By 3.0.

As you can imagine, a high school based on open educational resources needs a variety of partners and friends! Our first public project is an effort to find open educational resources and organize these around the courses we will be teaching.

Several of you have emailed with statements of support for the Open High School of Utah. Thank you for all the offers of help and the connections and introductions you’re making. Please keep them coming in!! I especially appreciated this note from Jun in the Philippines: You have just set a precedent that may be the answer to many of non-developed countries woes in education.

Several of you have emailed with statements of support for the Open High School of Utah. Thank you for all the offers of help and the connections and introductions you’re making. Please keep them coming in!! I especially appreciated this note from Jun in the Philippines: You have just set a precedent that may be the answer to many of non-developed countries woes in education.

With extreme joy and happiness I can now announce that this past Friday (the 9th) the Utah Board of Education formally approved our request to create a new charter school to be called the Open High School of Utah. For those unfamiliar with how US charter schools work, a charter school is a publicly funded school with a specific emphasis - like a performing arts high school.