Instructional/leadership coach at the Roche Center for Catholic Ed & teach formative education at BC: concerned w/ democratic ed & how ed forms us to be human/e
Boston, MA
Joined August 2011
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Preparing today to talk about speech, toleration, empathy, and democracy today in class … excited tot all through these issues with students as we all navigate the difficulties of learning to live with one another and ourselves.
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To honor the passing of Wendell Berry I’m reading his last novel outside in the garden today, I’ve always loved the Catlett family and particularly the steadiness of Marce
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I first read Jayber Crow 25 years ago, & I teach Remembering regularly , I was gutted to learn of the passing of Wendell Berry, there are many passages in Berry that bring me to tears no matter how often I’ve read them, his essays & fiction haunt my own attempts at teaching
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This summer I’ve been reading & preparing to teach a senior seminar course in the topic of failure. I just finished Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ which can be read as a haunting & beautiful meditation on the possibility of coming to grips w/ having lived a failed life.
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I spent a significant amount of the afternoon writing, which is both invigorating because it is creating connections & meaning, but it is also significantly challenging. So much of writing for me is actually figuring out what I’m trying to say & why it’s significant to others
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In the fall I’m teaching a senior seminar for Transformative Ed Studies majors, the topics is On Failure, I’m excited & daunted by this task, but looking forward to preparing & thinking through the course … here’s a peak at some of the reading I’m working through (1/2)
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One of my favorite things about winter is that in the cold and darkness some of the invisible realities of everyday life are made visible and leave evidence of their presence
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After a few days of temps in the 30s, one may think this one forgot his place, but “the garden has its own time that is proper to it, and not at my disposal. Every plant has its proper time” (Byung-Chul Han). In fact all things have a proper time to those who pay attention.
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Sometimes a stressful day turns on a simple joy. Looking forward to Berry’s newest novel with some of my favorite characters. Berry’s writings always challenge & disrupt my assumptions about the good life & my pace of living in the best ways
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This semester I’m teaching a new (to me) course - Cross-cultural Perspectives on Religion & Education, I’m pretty excited for the readings & the discussions I’ll be having w/ students as we try to wrestle w/ the complex relationship between religion & eduction ….
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In class this week we’re continuing to explore embodied knowing through Islamic education, this time in Turkey, and trying to understand some of the complexities of school forming a habitus through/with/by which students (and ourselves) live & understand the world
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Understanding the market forces that shape colleges is important for mission-driven schools (many of which are religious) that want to continue to exist & stay faithful to their mission. “Capitalizing on College” is essential reading to understand what’s happening to colleges
“We have to grow, or we’re going to die.”
A timely review of my new book was just published in @CTmagazine by @estice
--Capitalizing On College: How Higher Education Went From Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed, by Oxford University Press @OUPAcademic
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As our current @CristoRey Teacher Leadership Academy cohort comes to a close, we’re thrilled to share this feature of Anna Chapin written by her school, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School. Congratulations on all of your good work and ongoing leadership development, Anna!
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Read the feature: cristorey.net/about-us/news/…
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This week, @mtpoc & @_jsalexander from the Roche Center team traveled to Chicago to celebrate the conclusion of our Empowering Educators Teacher Leadership program in partnership with the @bigshoulderschi!
