culture – Adam F.C. Fletcher

Expanding on Capacities to Change the World

I call these items “capacities” because they provide definition to our vessel in life. They determine what we can do, who we can be, and where we are. Each of us is absolutely limitless in our capacities. The following attributes are what I’ve experienced and observed are useful when working to 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?”

Why I Think We Should Examine Our Motivations to Help Others

This is Adam Fletcher Sasse in 1992 at Omaha North High School.

When I was young, I was involved in programs at a church in the low-income, predominantly African American neighborhood where my family lived. One day when I was 16 years old, some friends and I were walking down the street when we came across a couple of shiny new vans delivering a small hoard of whiteContinue reading “Why I Think We Should Examine Our Motivations to Help Others”