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 | 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 | Feb 28, 2018 | Compass Tool, TECHO, Uncategorized, Week Without Walls
Today, I had one of those ‘my heart will break in a million happy pieces’ teaching moments. It started with a conversation with a student in the hallway (as the best teaching moments do). She started a little anecdote about Miguel Ángel, a boy she took to...
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...
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