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  • Modern Slavery, A Sad but Powerful Tale of Inhumanity!

    August 19, 2012

    Lisa Kristine’s images of slavery around the world break my heart.  I look into the eyes of these people and can only wonder: why do we treat each other with such cruelty?  Is it only about the 13 billion dollars of profit generated through the slave industry?  If so, we should be ashamed of our…

  • Ideas for Great Teaching (from a student’s point of view)

    August 17, 2012

    In my professional life, I am a long-standing teacher of foreign languages at an independent school in the South, who decided it was time to pursue more education as one part of my professional growth plan. This summer, I had the advantage of starting a degree program at selective college in the United States, so…

  • Designing for Outcomes

    August 16, 2012

    Timothy Prestero, founder and CEO of Design that Matters, runs a nonprofit that designs products for the poor in developing countries.  Mr. Prestero delivers a very interesting TED talk entitled, Design for people, not Awards. He flips the concept of designing products on its edge, moving from designing for inspiration to designing for outcomes.  He…

  • Are we serious about improving schools?

    August 11, 2012

    If you didn’t see this commentary by LZ Granderson, Why do school sports start before classes do,? on CNN then I strongly suggest reading it.  I believe in educating the whole child, so I really don’t have anything against sports in school.  In fact, I support the development of a student’s kinesthetic capability.  Athletic programs,…

  • Can we innovate our teaching by experimenting with new roles!

    August 6, 2012

    I want to frame this post through the work of Mark Applebaum as illustrated in his TED Talk, which you can watch below.  I do suggest watching it before you read this post and I hope you remain interested enough to come back at some point. Watching Applebaum’s work unfold on stage got me to…

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