Dana Mortenson is Co-Founder and CEO of World Savvy, a national education nonprofit committed to “building inclusive, adaptive and future-ready education systems” for over 18 years. World Savvy’s overarching goal is to integrate “cultural and global competence into the ethos and foundations of what we define as quality education.” I can draw a direct line […]
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Click below to access your downloadable Family Changemaker Calendar for May. This month’s calendar focuses on the “Solutions” quadrant of the Changemaker Journey. Enjoy! Click here Patti Talbotwww.blueroadseducation.org
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Those of us who were around and old enough at the time will never forget the commercial for Chiffon Margarine proclaiming “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!” https://youtu.be/ijVijP-CDVI Designed to communicate the authentic buttery taste of the fake stuff while Mother Nature declares her wrath upon humanity for tricking her, I remember the commercial
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You’ll likely be surprised, as I was, to learn the number of homeless youth present in a community like Montgomery County, Virginia. Two thriving universities welcome students and faculty from all over the world into small towns that sit comfortably among the Appalachian Mountains in an almost idyllic environment. In this setting, homeless and unaccompanied
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In Part I, we considered the first two quadrants of the Changemaker Journey “Homegrown Solutions” in light of current recommendations to stay at home as much as possible. In this second installment of “How to be Homebound Changemaker, we are thinking about the “Patchwork World” described in the 3rd and 4th quadrants of the Blue
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At Blue Roads Education, we’re defining “changemakers” as those creating “Homegrown Solutions for a Patchwork World”. This gets complicated when we are ordered to stay home and away from our usual efforts at changemaking. Many of us are trying to figure out how to remain effective changemakers while staying within the four walls of our homes.
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Today’s Changemaker conversation features Nicole Mignone who can count attorney, photographer and coach among her many specialties. Please tune in here via video, podcast and/or print to learn how she nurtures her own changemaker light and the lights in those around her. Nicole says that it can be complicated to explain what she does because
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Click below to access your downloadable family activity calendar for the month of April. Activities are designed to cultivate the 14 characteristics of changemakers using the “Homegrown” theme in the first quadrant of the Changemaker Journey. Click here Fill out the form below to be added to the Blue Roads list so you don’t miss
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Urbandictionary.com defines the term “solutionary” this way: Someone who finds revolutionary answers to life problems. A problem solver, an inventive activist. A type of revolutionary who makes change by providing a better way to do things. In this second portion of my changemaker conversation with Penny Franklin, she shares how she started to push for new solutions
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This is the final episode of four from my conversation with Changemaker Penny Franklin. You’ll want to be sure you caught the first three parts where she talks about her work with people across differences to create homegrown solutions to racial injustices in her community. In this last piece, you will hear Penny talk about
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