September 16, 2024 The Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision can reasonably stand as the beginning of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Justice). The path winds through the Civil Rights
November 22, 2023 Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and a
November 1, 2023 With the recent dramatic rise in Anti-Semitic incidents, according to the ADL, Jews around the world are uncertain as to whom they should identify their political affiliation
October 30, 2023 For many teachers, class discussion is a chance to dive into content: to unearth new meaning in a text, debate the impact of a historical event, draw
October 26, 2023 Bullying in schools can put tremendous pressure on students to conform. Social conformity has been described as “…a type of social influence involving a change in belief
October 25, 2023 These past two weeks of October have tried our ability to communicate. Free speech, either oral or written, has been tested. For educators, it is a poignant
October 19, 2023 & February 24, 2022 For Desmond Tutu and Thich Nhat Hanh “Spiritual bypassing,” a term coined by the American Buddhist teacher, John Welwood, is the “tendency to
October 18, 2023 Story 1: My first-ever air travel was BIG. I flew thousands of miles from Beijing to Minneapolis, then Milwaukee. I landed at Mitchell International Airport on March
October 11, 2023 In my 2009 Project Based Learning Design and Coaching Guide, I speculated about the longevity of Project Based Learning. I titled my introductory paragraph ‘PBL: A Bridge
October 5, 2023 How many of you associate Rwanda with the word “genocide”? You might shake your heads in disbelief, wondering how Rwanda could ever recover from such a horrifying