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…
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…
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…
“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 Yuval Noah Harari,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“Systems thinking enables educators to help their students develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to participate in a complex and interdependent world.” (Mike Johnstone - Compass Education) One of…
This year I am challenged with teaching a new course: AP Capstone Seminar. It’s a course that really captures what teaching should be like: skill development such as reading and…