These posts are reflections, questions, and ideas from Steve Heath, FabNewport’s founder and Executive Director. They capture what we’re learning—alongside young people, families, and partners—about belonging, agency, learning, and what it takes for kids to thrive. They are also shaped by what we’re reading and listening to, drawing from research, stories, and voices that challenge and inform our work. Some posts are polished, some are still in progress, but all are part of a shared inquiry into how young people grow and how communities can better support them.
Would you choose to bring a child into the world right now?
That question sits at the heart of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. Apocalypse meets optimism.
That’s the tension.
The film brings together some of …
I caught up with an old friend I hadn’t seen in decades. We swapped stories of raising kids and I loved what he shared about adolescence. “At about ten and it is like watching them …
Yesterday, I had an inspiring visit to SparkNC’s Cabarrus County Schools location in Concord, NC. …
A good part of the world seems to be tying itself in knots trying to figure out artificial intelligence. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now and have come to think of it less as a replacement …
Joy arrives first in the body,
movement that reminds the muscles
what they were made for.
A clean strike, a true arc,
the brief hush before the ball flies.
The leap from rock to ocean,
instant surrender
into the cold, …
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