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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...
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...
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...
How Technology Can Support Collaboration
Who would’ve thought that documenting the awesome teaching activities that support sustainability and the environment could be done via My Google Maps? At ASFG we’ve been organizing a Earth Day oriented...
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...
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...
The Importance of Happy Students: Summer Book Report on The Happiness Advantage
Recently a colleague (and friend!) recommended a book by Shawn Achor called The Happiness Advantage. The premise of the book is that happy people are successful; not that success leads to happiness, as is commonly believed. Achor works with Fortune...
Solution Resolution Conclusion
David Brooks’ article, “Everyone a Changemaker” struck a chord with some of the goals I feel education should strive for. Brooks refers to Bill Drayton, a “legend in the nonprofit world” to describe the need...
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...