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Please: UX my school!
Have you ever heard of Tim Brown? I hadn’t either, until I came across a TedTalk he did called Designers Think Big. That motivated me to scoot over to Amazon and purchase his book Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Harper Business, NY, 2019). It was a stimulating read to…
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JUST a teacher?!
I believe… the teacher-student relationship is sacred, based on trust, authenticity, acceptance and patience; each class is a sacred encounter where, when the magic of connection occurs, the miracle and wonder of learning take place; subject matter, the topics of class discussion and exchange, are sacred since they are key in enabling the student to…
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Living the Dream, the Covid Dream!
“Wow, you’re living the dream!”, I exclaimed. “My student shot back wryly, “Yeah! The Covid Dream!” The exchange took place in a class this morning. I had just seen her husband walk by in the background getting a loaf of bread out of the freezer. My student explained that they were going to have French…
Claire Maria Ford, Coach 