by cynthiajimes | Aug 30, 2012 | Blog
My colleague Amee Godwin’s recent blog post about the importance of supporting students’ social emotional learning made me reflect on my own experiences as an undergraduate in journalism. In my junior year, while sitting in the student union wearing my uniform of...
by swayne | Aug 24, 2012 | Blog
Like most good conversations, it started over dinner. Like most good conversations, it started over dinner.This past October, my colleague Megan Simmons and I were in Chios, Greece facilitating Action Collabs for the inaugural Green Ideas Project. One night at dinner...
by agodwin | Aug 19, 2012 | Blog
Unpacking emotions to nurture student successAs my colleague Shenandoah Weiss outlined in her last post, Lessons for Learning, managing fear, cultivating trust, and encouraging creativity are all essential building blocks for productive, holistic learning. Unpacking...
by rrubio | Aug 16, 2012 | Blog
As my colleague Shen pointed out in her blog last week, a sense of community is critical for facilitating the learning process for both teachers and students. Unfortunately, community is not a word many teachers would use to describe their work; in fact, many...
by shenweiss | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog
Big Ideas Fest is ISKME’s annual education convening, where in addition to experiencing design thinking, participants are also engaged in an exciting and holistic conversation about learning. We know that real learning is often a messy, arduous, nonlinear process, and...
