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Educating in the Time of Uncertainty

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...

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Embracing “I don’t know”

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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Running and 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...

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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,...

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Finding Ways to be Kind, Through Service

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"....

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Teaching Ethical Leadership Workshop

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...

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Constructing a Culture of Service

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,...

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Educating in the Time of Uncertainty

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...

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TECHO 4.0: Empathy and Compassion Edition

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...

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