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The Empathy Formula
For over a year now, I’ve been working with a remarkable group of people at Ashoka who believe empathy is the foundational skill we need in order to become effective changemakers in modern society — and who are bold (quixotic?) enough to envision a world in which one day, every child learns to master it as readily as s/he masters the ability to read and write.
Categories: Learning, Parenting, Voice
Tags: Ashoka, Empathy, Learning, school reform, social & emotional learning
1 CommentThis is What Great Teaching Looks Like
There’s a lot of talk nationally about the importance of teachers, and the need to identify what great teaching actually looks like — and requires.
Our search should start and end with people like Kathy Clunis D’Andrea.
Categories: Learning, Teacher Quality
Tags: Ashoka, Empathy, Kathy Klunis D'Andrea, Mission Hill school, teachers, teaching
2 CommentsHow Many Sacred Cows Does It Take to Sustain A Movement?
How do we transform the quality of teaching and learning in America?
Like a lot of people, I’ve been wrestling with that riddle for the bulk of my career. And this month, three separate events are making me wonder in a new way about how to bring about such a shift – and sustain such a movement.
Categories: Leadership, Learning, Organizational Change
Tags: Ashoka, character education, civic education, Deepak Chopra, education reform, Empathy, Imagination, Lincoln Center Institute, movement, movement-building, service-learning, sir ken robinson, social & emotional learning, SOS March
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