by alicjawp | Mar 14, 2023 | Learning Service, Social Justice, TECHO, Uncategorized
Three years ago, in March 2020, our schools closed, and our education system changed forever. We went through online classes, hybrid classes, teaching with masks, online health passes, endless Covid tests and then, an apparent return to “normal”. However,...
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 | Jun 5, 2022 | Social Justice, TECHO, Uncategorized, Week Without Walls
Yuval Noah Harari and Lisa Feldman Barrett both write about construction: in Sapiens Harari underlines how culture is a human construct, subject to consistent change, while in 7 1/2 Lessons about the Brain, Feldman tells us that our brain constructs our reality, and...
by alicjawp | Jan 20, 2021 | Lit Circles, Social Justice, Uncategorized
Watching the news coverage surrounding the death of George Floyd at the end of a very tumultuous school year and then learning more and more about the reality of racism in the USA and the world as the summer opened with Black Lives Matter protests, I felt helpless...
by alicjawp | Sep 29, 2020 | Capstone, Lit Circles, Presentations, Technology, Tinkering, Uncategorized
Full disclosure: before COVID and eLearning, I, despite being an avid user of Google Classroom almost since its inception, still used paper rubrics to give students feedback. I would give comments and suggestions in their Google Docs but I would still circle and...
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...
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