The Importance of Process

In the summer of 1998, the world of chess was changed.  Battles between chess grandmasters and computers ten years earlier were dominated by human intellect and intuition.  Then in 1997, the $10 million supercomputer “Deep Blue” soundly defeated Gary...

Creating a Smaller Here

The following paragraphs are taken directly from Stephen Johnson’s blog. In his essay introducing The Long Now Foundation, Brian Eno tells the story of visiting a wealthy friend in her downtown loft, in an otherwise destitute Manhattan neighborhood circa 1978: I...

Caring for Volunteers

As a staff team, we think about the life of a KidsWorld volunteer in four simple phases: recruiting, placement, training, and care.  Probably the hardest phase for me to address is care.  In the remainder of this year, one of my goals is to come up with one...

Developing the Learner Within You – Part 2

I’ve learned so much from the Learning Leaders Fieldbook created by the MASIE Center that I had to create a blog series to share the insights.  You can check out Part 1 of the series here.  The MASIE Center created the fieldbook to focus on the creation, role...