I'm heading down under again early in 2010 to to support a national project to establish the Musical Futures approach to music education in a number of Australian states (mainly, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales). But in recent weeks it's become clear that the interest in adopting/adapting these strategies isn't confined to music or to what remains of the empire. I've been advising on a bid to the Obama administration to apply MF practices to Science in a range of pilot schools (probably in Illinois) and I've also been made aware of schools in Thailand, New Zealand,Egypt, Cyprus, Canada and the US who are all finding success in these radical approaches. More power to the teacher's elbows - it takes a lot of courage to throw out almost everything you've been trained to believe in and put your trust in your students.