Newsletter I sat down in 34 E, a middle seat. There would be no room to work on my laptop on this 2 hr. 34 min. flight from San Jose, Costa Rica to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I was stuck, badly [...]
August Newsletter It’s the first day of August as I write this. In Costa Rica, where UPEACE is headquartered, it’s the rainiest month of the year. In New Delhi, where my parents are, [...]
June Newsletter Imagine waking up one morning, looking in the mirror, and realizing that you’re much bigger than you were when you went to sleep the night before. Well, that’s exactly [...]
I travel a lot for my work and have come to appreciate the benefits of traveling light. My favorite shirt to pack on my trips is a charcoal wrinkle-free piece, formal enough to be worn when [...]
“Please draw a picture or symbol that represents you.” That was the short instruction I gave the group of twelve educators who had come together from three continents for the course, [...]
I finished my graduate program in international education in the summer of 2002. One key take-away that ‘stuck’ with me is that schooling in most countries had been modeled on an industrial-age [...]