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TedxTalk Tuesdays // Every kid needs a champion
June 11, 2013 by Maryam Elarbi
Rita Pierson is amazing. She comes from a family of educators and has been one herself for the past 40 years. This lady just gets it. Her energy is electrifying and her passion for teaching is evident. Her TedxTalk is oozing with hope for the future of education. In her talk, she discusses the importance of the [...] Read More
Breaking down our four-part model: Recovery
June 11, 2013 by Invisible Children
Invisible Children doesn’t stop at documenting atrocities or activating youth or protecting civilians or rehabilitating post-conflict communities. We do it all. And we do it through a four-part model that focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict, addressing it in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. One of the four parts of the comprehensive model is Recovery. [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
May 17, 2013 by Bethany Williams
The air is full of promise. Children walking through Gulu town, heading home from school at the end of the day.
Innovation in the classroom // Sugata Mitra
May 9, 2013 by Danny Porter
Calcutta-born Sugata Mitra has been defying the odds since birth. Statistically, very few people born in Calcutta make it above the poverty line, much less out of the Indian city. Mitra has done both. Currently a visiting professor at MIT, Mitra is revolutionizing primary education. Mitra recently received a $1 million TED Prize for his work to improve education [...] Read More
Educator Spotlight // Impact on a global scale
May 6, 2013 by Monica Retka
Just like us, Connie’s Invisible Children journey began with the Rough Cut. Cincinnati native Connie Ring has the two toughest jobs on the planet – she’s a mother (of two) and a math teacher at Archbishop Moeller High School. Connie’s teaching job landed her a gig chaperoning students at a leadership conference which happened to [...] Read More
Common Good Exchange // Krochet Kids intl
May 3, 2013 by Krista Morgan
It started simply enough. Three high school buddies were avid snow boarding enthusiasts and started crocheting their own beanies (they realize this sounds sort of strange: “Though it was not a normal hobby for high school guys, we reveled in the novelty of it.”) Fast forward 5+ years, and those three buddies run the very successful [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: What Harriet Brought Back
May 1, 2013 by Bethany Williams
I’m sitting near the front of the 140 student classroom at Keyo Secondary School on top of a hill in northern Uganda. Acan Harriet jumps right into the lesson. She has a dry, matter-of-fact tone as she delves into English grammar with her high school class. A cell phone rings with a hit club song. [...] Read More
Organically digital
February 25, 2013 by Juan Frausto
Disusing the blurring line between organic and digital may be one of my favorite conversational topics (no, really.) See, in college I took a class titled Politics of the Future and in a nutshell, it ruined my life. In a good way. Five books and five papers later, I was left fascinated with the relationship [...] Read More
Uganda: Photo Friday
December 21, 2012 by Bethany Williams
Coming this Christmas: The Teacher Reciprocal Exchange! Six teachers from northern Uganda will be coming to teach in classrooms across the U.S. this December and January. They are assigned a partner teacher and will be able to learn new skills and techniques in the classroom as well as share their own teaching styles and culture [...] Read More
Teacher Exchange: Summer scrapbook
August 8, 2012 by Bethany Williams
It was a summer to remember. Whether they were teaching math at Gulu High, or Home Economics at Sacred Heart, the Teacher Exchange (TeX) participants had the unique opportunity to both teach and learn in a cross-cultural environment. Teachers from the US and Canada spent 6 weeks in Uganda, paired with Ugandan teachers at Invisible [...] Read More
