This retreat has been fantastic. I feel like we’ve gotten so much done in such a brief period of time. We were able to work out the details to our project and pick a track to stay on going forward. After […]

This whole program has completely changed my perspective on how to create change. Though every part of Bill and Tim’s teaching was important and meaningful, the part that stuck out the most to me was the brain […]

In the last week, I have sent numerous emails reaching out to people who my group and I could possibly interview, had a great google hangout where I learned how far my group had come in there work and research (I […]

This week, I began sending emails to start conversations that will hopefully lead to interviews. I started with three contacts: Shawna Shapiro, a professor of language at Middlebury College who teaches about how […]

In the past week I came up with questions that my group and I could use in our interviews, talked to a teacher in our high school about ELL’s and lastly I talked to some of my friends about cultural communication […]

Over the past week I continued working on my topic mostly by talking to my parents and looking out for any new connections to our topic. An article my uncle posted on Facebook stuck out specifically by chance. It […]

In only one week I have learned a great deal of knowledge on ELL students and the broad topic of cultural communication. I have enjoyed the google hangouts because they help me know what I need to do to keep this […]

Leaving the retreat a week ago, I had a clear idea of the problem we had and how my team I would approach it. We were going to reach out to a local audience of farmers, politicians and generally anyone who […]

This week is my first week of my new topic—OUR new topic. In reading other group members’ blogs and doing my own research, I realized that this week, my goal is not only to learn about the issue, but to figure o […]

A week or so ago I met with Lina and Bob and we made a plan for the next few weeks before our next retreat.

Today I am posting the first update of what that plan entails…

Mission One: Ten Questions For […]

The best conversations are those which end in excitement—and the feeling that they’re not over yet. Measured in conversations, last weekend’s retreat was a huge success that left me eager for the future.

I c […]

I am so happy with the outcome of our first “What’s the Story?” overnight retreat. I went into this meeting fearing that my topic wouldn’t appeal to others, I was afraid that it wouldn’t be as dramatic as the […]

Yesterday we all walked into the What’s the Story? retreat worried about how this would play out. Most of us hadn’t ever been to this strange and cool Eco-lodge in the middle of nowhere and there was a nervous […]

Over the weekend I learned a good amount about everything. I learned other people’s opinions and ideas about certain subjects, and I even tried to get to know the other people in this program (hence the word […]

This is way, way, unacceptably late, but here me out. It’s almost 1 am, and I’m about to make my pitch. Bear with me, please, even though my thoughts are sort of frazzled like split ends. Gosh, I hate split […]