society – Adam F.C. Fletcher

16 Capacities to Change the World

After more than a decade of teaching people around the world how to do it, I’ve decided to share this list of key skills, abilities, knowledge, and dispositions. They’re based off my life as I’ve worked for social justice, and they are what I’ve seen consistently in my mentors, heros, and students. These capacities make the difference between people who talk about changing the world and people who actually change the world.

ECOsystems or EGOsystems of Education?

To say that schools are changing right now is a gross understatement. Between technological, social and cultural transformations happening right now across the U.S., there are new trends becoming apparent everywhere, schools included. This paper puts the massive changes happening throughout the education system into context to help readers understand what’s happening, and whyContinue reading “ECOsystems or EGOsystems of Education?”

It Takes Humility to Change the World

CS Lewis "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

“If you have to write about it, you don’t know what humility is.” —My Dad Let me start by saying that I don’t know what humility is. For more than a dozen years I’ve consciously struggled with the word and the concept of humility, and I’m still not sure. I do know this: If youContinue reading “It Takes Humility to Change the World”