by glpadmin | May 19, 2015 | Speaking of Dialogue
“We are weary of academic conferences.” That’s how Christy Wampole starts her article The Conference Manifesto in The New York Times (posted May 4th 2015). Indeed, I can relate to that. In fact, it is getting increasingly challenging for me to go to...
by glpadmin | May 21, 2015 | Speaking of Dialogue
At a workshop I attended a couple of years ago, we were all asked to come up with a six-word sentence that captures who you are. The sentence I came up with in the few minutes we had for this activity is: “Learn and teach what I love”. The story of...
by glpadmin | May 27, 2015 | Speaking of Dialogue
The valedictorian stands at the podium, in front of a row of beaming adults (I can only assume they are her teachers and administrators). She begins with this fable of a Zen student who is disappointed when his teacher says it will take 10 years of...
by glpadmin | Jun 10, 2015 | Speaking of Dialogue
[This post is the first in a summer series of three posts on Three Levels of Listening. Stay tuned for the remaining two posts in this series, and download the tipsheet Three Levels of Listening in the meantime!] Imagine this: You are at a learning event,...
by glpadmin | Jun 16, 2015 | Speaking of Dialogue
Fatemeh is a graduate student at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran. After discovering On Teaching and Learning on the shelf of the university library, she wrote me an email and we have had a vigorous virtual conversation ever since! Fatemeh found a copy...