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 | Jul 2, 2020 | Compass Tool, Infographic, PBL, Project Based Learning, Social Justice, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
* I teach at a private school in Mexico with a predominantly Mexican student population with a few students from the USA and a few minority students, mostly from South Korea and India. My ideas for teaching presented here are for these students in mind. “The...
by alicjawp | Apr 29, 2020 | Collaboration, 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 Yuval Noah Harari, in his novel 21 Lessons for the 21st Century does not give us...
by alicjawp | Jun 8, 2018 | Capstone, Innovation, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
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 for “changemakers”: “Drayton believes we’re in the middle of...
by alicjawp | Feb 13, 2018 | Capstone, Collaboration, Compass Tool, Infographic, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized
“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 the many things that I love about teaching...
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