Last week, hours after returning home from a trip to San Francisco, I launched into three full and fulfilling days attending the annual Games for Change Festival. It really is among my favorite professional events. Having previously attended in ’06 and ’07, I can now say x3, G4C is a place where I learn a [...]
Between the weather and the economy, it would be fair to call this a winter of discontent/hibernation (Inauguration excluded), and so I have been counting down the days until we leave for Austin, where we’re headed next week for SXSW Interactive and some nerding, learning, networking, seeing friends and family, performing (in Dan’s case), and, [...]
Last Thursday I attended an awesome panel at Demos, one of those organizations I’ve always heard good things about but never actually “met.” Three panelists spoke and took questions for two hours about the implications of having multiple generations in the workforce and what it means for the nonprofit sector. Below are my “liveblogged” notes [...]
Even though our Inauguration trip to DC only lasted four days, it felt like we were off in an alternate, giddy reality for much longer. Even attempting to get back to work today, that state of elation continued with the stream of news about things like Obama’s Executive Orders to close the prison at Guantanamo [...]
Pedro Noguera is a thinker in education who has done a lot to influence my own understanding of urban education and sociology. I read his work in grad school, especially as it relates to school violence in New York City, and have heard him speak several times over the past few years. Sometimes his words [...]
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