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Today was the perfect day for a walk with clear skies and a refreshing breeze. Today, I had the opportunity to accompany approximately 120 3rd grade students from Drew Charter School as they toured the East Lake Community Learning Garden and Farm. The Learning Garden was established in 2010 in Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood. Not only is the garden a…
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Schools have some significant challenges ahead if they are going to embrace and reconcile the opposites of the “rational” versus the “emotional” individual. For the purposes of this post, consider the rational individual to embody the qualities of the intellectual, the scientist or the literary critic. While the emotional individual manifests the qualities of the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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