This is Part 3 of a four-part series centering on Penny Franklin’s Changemaker Journey. In this portion of our conversation, Penny focuses on the “Patchwork” quadrant of our Changemaker Framework that emphasizes the beauty and importance, as well as the challenges, of working across cultures and human diversity to address the issues we must face […]
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This is Part I of a four-part series from my Changemaker Interview with community leader and activist Penny Franklin. Though she doesn’t really like to be called a “leader”, she has clearly led her community in some very important initiatives to address racial injustice. This first part of the series centers on quadrant 1 of
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I’ve had the honor of working with Brad Bizzell for over twenty years. We were principal colleagues together in Montgomery County, Virginia and later worked together in the Educational Leadership Program at Radford University preparing school leaders. I was grateful for this opportunity to sit down and learn about his Changemaker Journey using the “Homegrown
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Blacksburg, Virginia’s Chief of Police, Anthony Wilson, joined me to share his changemaker journey using our four-part framework “Homegrown Solutions for a Patchwork World”. You can view the inspiring 25-minute conversation below and read on to learn how this community leader, who was first on the scene as a SWAT team officer during the horrific
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It was clear to me really from the time I was three in the arms of a brown woman … if I have an image of mother Mary, the mother of God, I always talk about Sarah Cunningham …She embodied that great maternal God love. Leaf Seligman refers to herself as a “translator of metaphors”.
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This is the second installment in our Changemaker Series centered on conversations with individuals who exemplify the four quadrants of the Blue Roads Changemaker Journey. By asking questions related to the guiding theme for our work, “Homegrown Solutions for a Patchwork World,” we highlight the unique attributes and practices of change-making in the lives of
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Today, we are kicking off a series of blogs and videos focused on conversations with amazing people from various walks of life who embody the characteristics and practices of changemaking in their lives. These interviews are structured with the Blue Roads “Changemaker Journey” in mind. Each conversation centers roughly around four question categories that echo
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It makes sense that an organization called “Blue Roads” would use travel metaphors to describe our work. Our road has taken us on a journey of learning and we’ve grown a lot along the way. The path of the changemaker is a challenging one. Like the blue roads, the changemaker journey is not a single
If you do a Google search for the word “changemaker”, you will inevitably run across Ashoka.org, the worldwide organization leading the way, celebrating and encouraging institutions to develop changemakers capable of doing the work that our world needs to make it a healthier more functional planet for the good of all. You’ll find lists of
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The Big C You’ve probably seen an emphasis in education on words that start with “C”. The first framework I saw emphasizing “c-words” was back in the early 90’s when I was first exposed to the seminal work of Canadian educational change scholar, Dr. Michael Fullan. Fullan posited the need to emphasize priorities like citizenship,
