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Service Learning
Finding Ways to be Kind, Through Service
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"....
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 Ethical Leadership and how we can teach our students to develop and practice...
Ethical Leadership through Experiential Learning…in Nepal!
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...
Constructing a Culture of Service
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,...
TECHO 4.0: Empathy and Compassion Edition
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...
Techo 3.0
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...
TECHO 2.0
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...
What did students learn from TECHO?
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...
TECHO Lessons
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...