by alicjawp | Feb 8, 2023 | Collaboration, Learning Service, Social Justice, Uncategorized
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 the qualities of an...
by alicjawp | Jul 29, 2022 | Collaboration, Learning Service, Mindfulness, Social Justice, Systems Thinking
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 educator; second, for how...
by alicjawp | Apr 29, 2020 | Collaboration, Featured, Innovation, Mindfulness, Systems Thinking
“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 students, “To Expand the Moral Imagination in the...
by alicjawp | Mar 12, 2020 | Collaboration, Social Justice, TECHO, Tinkering, Week Without Walls
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...
by alicjawp | Jun 19, 2019 | Capstone, Collaboration, Featured, Presentations, Technology
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 reflecting what it means to take on a new course,...
by alicjawp | May 15, 2019 | Collaboration, Compass Tool, Innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
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 meeting meant to support sustainability for approximately the...
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