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 | 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 | Aug 14, 2018 | Innovation, Uncategorized
Recently a colleague (and friend!) recommended a book by Shawn Achor called The Happiness Advantage. The premise of the book is that happy people are successful; not that success leads to happiness, as is commonly believed. Achor works with Fortune 500 companies to...
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...
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