If we want to feel connected, we need to break up with gossiping. One of the things I’ve noticed is that as we feel more disconnected, we grasp for connection through unhealthy information sharing (i.e. gossiping). Unhealthy information sharing is all the ways we share information about other people that may or not be true.Continue reading “Gossiping for Connection”
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Supporting students from a class perspective
An interesting article in today’s NY Times: Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success (alternatively titled as “For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in Hard Fall”) I write about class a lot because it’s one of the few things I feel secure in my knowledge. When we think about classContinue reading “Supporting students from a class perspective”
NPR Story
As I was driving through Itasca State Park on Friday, I heard a disturbing story on The World for NPR about the Marines in Afghanistan training Afghan soldiers. The Marines were joking about how they were unable to pronounce the names of their Afghan colleagues, so rather than trying to learn to pronounce the namesContinue reading “NPR Story”
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