A Generation of Solutionaries

Posted on March 26, 2012 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I’m excited to share a recent article I wrote for Independent School Magazine. Here’s an excerpt from “Solutionaries: Education for a Better World”: “While the mindset of politicians and the mainstream educational reform initiatives is that education ought to ensure that our students are verbally, mathematically, and scientifically literate and [...]

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Mike Daisey’s Lies Must Not Make Us Apathetic or Cynical

Posted on March 23, 2012 by zoeweil

Image courtesy of Yutaka Tsutano via Creative Commons. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “Mike Daisey’s Lies Must Not Make Us Apathetic or Cynical”: “On January 18, I wrote “An Eighth Grader’s [...]

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Humane Education Prepares Students Better

Posted on March 12, 2012 by zoeweil

Image copyright Institute for Humane Education. Recently, a participant in the Institute for Humane Education’s online course, Teaching for a Positive Future, shared her experience of showing my TEDx talk on humane education with her twelfth graders at a college preparatory private school. While the students liked the talk, they wondered if such an education [...]

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An Exciting Time to Be Alive: Reflections on the TED Conference

Posted on March 7, 2012 by zoeweil

Image TED.com screenshot I had the opportunity to attend a live streaming of the TED conference on February 29. The line-up of speakers was exciting. I learned about liquid metal battery technology from Donald Sadoway that will enable wind and solar energy to be stored, making their use more convenient and realistic. I learned about [...]

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Why We Need Humane Education: Co-opting The Lorax

Posted on March 5, 2012 by zoeweil

Image courtesy of Loren Javier via Creative Commons. I can’t say it better than Josh Golin and Susan Linn from Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood who wrote “Save the Lorax: Shun the Stuff.”  This is exactly why we need humane education: to bring critical thinking to the co-opting of a pro-environmental, anti-materialistic book by corporate [...]

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How to Help Our Children Make the World a Better Place

Posted on February 22, 2012 by zoeweil

Image courtesy of Fabio Medda. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “How to Help Our Children Make the World a Better Place”: “We all know what compassion feels like, and what kindness [...]

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I’m An Educator, So Don’t Believe Me

Posted on February 20, 2012 by zoeweil

Image courtesy of Flickr. For my blog post today, I’m sharing a recent post I wrote for Care2.com, an online community for people passionate about creating a better world. Here’s an excerpt from “I’m An Educator, So Don’t Believe Me”: “When I teach, I often begin my classes by telling the students not to believe [...]

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Helping Students Live Big Lives

Posted on February 15, 2012 by zoeweil

Award-winning educator and educational revolutionary, John Taylor Gatto, wrote in his book, Weapons of Mass Instruction: “Being a mature being means living with a purpose, your own purpose: it’s about welcoming responsibility as the nourishment a big life needs: it’s about behaving as a good citizen – finding ways to add value to the community [...]

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Choosing My Father’s Ties: Changing Systems

Posted on February 10, 2012 by zoeweil

When I was a child, my father would come into my room most mornings and ask me to choose which tie he should wear with the suit he had on that day. He usually brought two ties into my room from which I could choose. As I got older, sometimes I felt that neither choice [...]

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Tips for Raising Humane Kids

Posted on February 8, 2012 by zoeweil

For my blog post today, I wanted to share a guest post I wrote for the veg parenting blog, Raising Veg Kids. Here’s an excerpt from “Tips for Raising Humane Kids”: “When asked about their deepest hopes for their children, most parents don’t mention elite colleges, the best outfits, high SAT scores, athletic prowess, or [...]

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