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 | Mar 6, 2019 | Collaboration, Social Justice, TECHO, Uncategorized, Week Without Walls
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 experience. Knowledge results from the combinations of...
by alicjawp | Mar 7, 2017 | Social Justice, TECHO, Week Without Walls
After our build and some much needed rest, I regrouped with students from the TECHO to debrief, reflect and plan. I’m excited about the plans for our new TECHO club at ASFG, fundraising possibilities and most of all, the energy that the students brought back...
by alicjawp | Mar 1, 2017 | Social Justice, TECHO, Week Without Walls
Getting back from the TECHO build is like coming back from another world. In fact, it is coming back from another world. Driving home last night and running some errands in my neighbourhood today, I couldn’t stop marveling at the pavement on the roads, yes! even our...
by alicjawp | Feb 23, 2017 | Infographic, Lit Circles, Project Based Learning, Social Justice, Technology, Tinkering
Recently I had the pleasure of listening to Gever Tulley deliver the keynote at the American School Foundation of Monterrey Live Curious Go Beyond Conference. Tulley is the founder of Brightworks and the Tinkering School in San Francisco as well as the author of 50...
by alicjawp | Feb 22, 2017 | Social Justice, TECHO, Week Without Walls
This weekend I am taking 33 students from ASFG to a community in Tonalá, Jalisco to build 6 TECHO homes for families in need. Wish me luck! TECHO is a nonprofit organization that originated in Chile in 1997 to combat poverty, first by providing people with a basic...
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