For those like Alison or Dash or Kirk who spend the year in classrooms with students, Molly is a chance to make art, write poetry or sing songs. Something different, a focus on your creative work.

And for anyone who thinks of giving a class or workshop as something that might be a part of their future, take as a chance to practice and hone with a sympathetic audience. Develop your signature class, the one only you can teach, the one that helps expand your business or serves as a cornerstone to your freelance work. Molly’s will come and we can advertise it to the city as well. If you can dream it up, we can put it on the schedule.

Admittedly, in the future, I hope Molly will have all kinds of these signature classes offered by a Faculty At Large and will include a department of Shakespeare and Business. I also look forward to a program in which teams of people from schools will come to town for a week or two. (Imagine teams made up of board members, administrators, students, parents and teachers from different kinds of schools meeting to make things together as they consider what school should be. Cool, right?)

In the meantime, if you are a teacher, you’ll love Molly School.