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Constructing a Culture of Service
Yuval Noah Harari and Lisa Feldman Barrett both write about construction: in Sapiens Harari underlines how culture is a human construct, subject to consistent change, while in 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain, Feldman tells us that our brain constructs our reality, and...
TECHO 4.0: Empathy and Compassion Edition
Can empathy and compassion be explicitly taught? In our fourth iteration of TECHO Week Without Walls at ASFG, I was asking myself that very question as I helped to organize 100 affluent private school students to go out to a marginalized community where people...
Techo 3.0
The trip where so much went wrong but the students learned so much! In education, there is a lot of talk about experiential learning: "the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combinations of...
TECHO 2.0
Today, I had one of those 'my heart will break in a million happy pieces' teaching moments. It started with a conversation with a student in the hallway (as the best teaching moments do). She started a little anecdote about Miguel Ángel, a boy she took to her friend’s...
What did students learn from TECHO?
After our build and some much needed rest, I regrouped with students from the TECHO to debrief, reflect and plan. I'm excited about the plans for our new TECHO club at ASFG, fundraising possibilities and most of all, the energy that the students brought back with...
TECHO Lessons
Getting back from the TECHO build is like coming back from another world. In fact, it is coming back from another world. Driving home last night and running some errands in my neighbourhood today, I couldn’t stop marveling at the pavement on the roads, yes! even our...
TECHO
This weekend I am taking 33 students from ASFG to a community in Tonalá, Jalisco to build 6 TECHO homes for families in need. Wish me luck! TECHO is a nonprofit organization that originated in Chile in 1997 to combat poverty, first by providing people with a basic...