Reflecting on a long and continuing career as a professional educator, here are 10 lessons I consider among those that are important. Understanding this part of the definition of “important” may help: “likely to have a profound effect on success, survival, or well-being.” This doesn’t mean there aren’t more lessons. These are some of mine,
Much is said about letting go of a burden in order to lighten our load or letting go of an older, outmoded practice or habit in order to embrace a new and better one. Letting go is not as easy as it sounds, because we may have become attached to what we believe is the
Connecting beliefs with values – I think I figured out why I have been having trouble with AI. It’s not because I don’t support it or believe in it. I know to some degree what it is and that it is an important part of the evolution of technology now and in the future. Robotics
There is a well-documented article in the June 4-11, 2018 issue of The New Yorker Magazine by Jelani Cobb about white spaces where many of us have lived and worked: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/04/starbucks-and-the-issue-of-white-space The issue of racism, especially implicit bias, goes largely unnoticed until it is brought into our consciousness by some of the events which we
If you want to make a change, believe you know what to do and still can’t seem to do it, then what? It’s both complex and simple. Many people do not understand either the complexity or the simplicity. According to research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology there is an interconnected web of psychological, chemical
