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 | 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...
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