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You’ve donated. You’ve Protested. You’ve self-educated. Now, transform your curriculum.
* I teach at a private school in Mexico with a predominantly Mexican student population with a few students from the USA and a few minority students, mostly from South Korea and India. My ideas for teaching...
Running and Teaching
My last blog post was posted right around when I started training for my marathon and it took several months of training and the actual marathon (and recovery weeks!) to finally write a new post that is not...
Educating in the Time of Uncertainty
“How can we prepare ourselves and our children for a world of such unprecedented transformations and radical uncertainties?” - Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century In an inspiring letter to his...
Teachers as Facilitators
Some of the best teaching moments are really just moments of facilitation. It sure makes teaching sound unromantic but really, we facilitate opportunities for our students to learn and grow. If we work hard,...
Embracing “I don’t know”
With the completion of the school year and coursework for AP Capstone Research being finalized - that magical moment when all the check marks show completed submissions for students’ work - it’s worth...
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Finding Ways to be Kind, Through Service
Three years ago, in March 2020, our schools closed, and our education system changed forever. We went through online classes, hybrid classes, teaching with masks, online health passes, endless Covid tests and then, an apparent return to "normal"....
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,...
You’ve donated. You’ve Protested. You’ve self-educated. Now, transform your curriculum.
* I teach at a private school in Mexico with a predominantly Mexican student population with a few students from the USA and a few minority students, mostly from South Korea and India. My ideas for teaching...
Teaching Ethical Leadership Workshop
What makes a good leader? This is an important question we often ask students. Since leading a course for Students Shoulder to Shoulder, I have been thinking a lot about Ethical Leadership and how we can teach our students to develop and practice...
Just Mercy Social Justice Unit for English class
Watching the news coverage surrounding the death of George Floyd at the end of a very tumultuous school year and then learning more and more about the reality of racism in the USA and the world as the summer...
Educating in the Time of Uncertainty
“How can we prepare ourselves and our children for a world of such unprecedented transformations and radical uncertainties?” - Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century In an inspiring letter to his...
Ethical Leadership through Experiential Learning…in Nepal!
This summer I had the incredible opportunity to be a course instructor for a Students Shoulder-to-Shoulder field study to Nepal, and it was one of the most enlightening experiences in my education career: first, for how I much I learned as an...
Autocrat Hacks for faster Digital Feedback for AP Lang and Capstone
Full disclosure: before COVID and eLearning, I, despite being an avid user of Google Classroom almost since its inception, still used paper rubrics to give students feedback. I would give comments 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...