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 | 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...
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