All Blog Posts Tagged 'Youth' (4)

A Taste of “Bitter and Sweet” Dark Chocolate —Reflections on my internship by Jia Yao With the help of M…

A Taste of “Bitter and Sweet” Dark Chocolate

—Reflections on my internship by Jia Yao

With the help of Mary Sakin, the SCB Director of Applied Business Learning, I found my first U.S. internship with Spudder.com. As a web-oriented business, Spudder depends heavily on business tools like Mavenlink and Google Apps to manage work flow. From the moment I…

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Added by Jia Yao on April 11, 2014 at 12:00pm — No Comments

My passions

I have a few passions that really define who I and remind me of why I became a teacher. In the past three years one of those has really motivate me to do more for my community and the young people in it. I went on my first cruise to Mexico in 2009. As I was riding the bus in Progresso to one of our excursions I witnessed poverty like I had never seen. The landscape was bare; no usable soil to speak of. A kitchen in this community was a fire pit in the backyard with whole chickens hanging for… Continue

Added by Amie Cole on June 29, 2011 at 1:32pm — No Comments

Student voice: do we really care about student voice? Live Webchat today

In a few hours I'll be facilitating a live web chat on an area that, after three weeks seeing some fascinating practice in New Zealand and Australia, is closer to my heart than ever. I've written a longer blog post on how I think we could listen… Continue

Added by Ewan McIntosh on August 31, 2010 at 7:50am — No Comments

Black Eyed Peas “Youth Voices” PSA Empowers Youth Through Digital Arts

The Adobe Foundation and The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation today unveiled a new public service announcement called “Plant Inspiration.” The PSA promotes the launch of Adobe Youth Voices, a non-profit that stresses the power of technology to engage middle- and high school–age youth. Adobe Youth Voices provides… Continue

Added by Erik on October 7, 2009 at 4:21pm — No Comments