Shawn LavoieThe Three TentsA modified version of the 2023 YIHS graduation address…10 min read·Jun 15, 2023----
Shawn LavoieSophomores Reading Sophomore WritingVoice is what we imagine while reading text on a page and what we hear while listening to a recording. It’s both in our minds and in the…2 min read·Jun 10, 2021----
Shawn LavoieFive Lessons for Moving Forward: Inspired by Inauguration DayLet Go, Let Come: We all just needed to hear and see Trump leave. However unwilling and awkward, he just needed to do it. And he did…3 min read·Jan 21, 2021--1--1
Shawn LavoieChristmas on Quarantine: Or how a family manages to eek out beauty in challenging timesA hearty welcome from our farmhouse, where we’ve been making music. From our isolated family to yours…may this all end soon!4 min read·Dec 15, 2020----
Shawn LavoieOur Brave New Social WorldWhat does it mean to be social now? Listen to high schoolers1 min read·Nov 24, 2020----
Shawn LavoieQuaranteenagers Podcast“We are teens, we are teens on quarantine, we are quaranteenagers.”2 min read·Jun 6, 2020----
Shawn LavoieOde to the InessentialSometimes what we need is not a need at all6 min read·May 15, 2020----
Shawn LavoieCrackingFragile things crack and the strongest things crack. Ice formed over the night from a spring freeze cracks under the boot of an excited…6 min read·Apr 13, 2020--1--1
Shawn LavoieAudio-Stories with StudentsBoy is it fun to make audio-stories with teenagers. Hearing the sound of your voice over the radio (or through earbuds plugged into a…1 min read·May 2, 2018----