Sharing ideas from 40 years of leading volunteer based tutor/mentor program in Chicago and 20 years leading a non profit providing tutoring/mentoring to inner city youth.
I’ve been building a library of articles related to social capital since the early 2000s. Around 2010 I started putting some of t hese into a blog article on my Tutor/Mentor Connection.ning.com site, then in 2016 I created a WordPress article with these same links. I’ve continued to add since then.
I led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago from 1975 to 2011 and over that time I…
I’m part of two on-line communities. One is the Connected Learning #clmooc group, which is active on Twitter. The second is the Giraffe Heroes group, which just formed on Facebook. Below is a response to a post I made this weekend in the Giraffe group.
I created the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) in Chicago in 1993 (and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLCin 2011) to support the growth of…
Below is a graphic that I’ve been sharing for many years on the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC web site and my blogs. While I focus this process on making mentor-rich, non-school tutor, mentor and learning programs available in all high poverty areas of Chicago and other cities, I feel the process applies to other issues.
This map shows the 100 largest US cities and how well they are performing on meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Chicago ranks 71st on the list.
This is one of several maps and charts included in a report titled Leaving No US City Behind: The U.S. Cities Sustainable Development Goals Index. Find link to the pdf here.
I created this concept map to show the many different problems that face all people, both rich and poor.
My goal was to emphasize that while wealthy people do face many of the same problems as do poor people, they have more resources to help them deal with these problems. In addition, people living in high poverty areas face many problems that people living in affluent areas do not face.
The cMap below shows how information aggregated in a web library can be used by learners from many places to solve complex, on-going problems.
The problem I focus is captured in this question: “What are all the things we need to know and do to assure that every youth born in a high poverty area today is beginning a job/career by his/her mid 20s?”
I’ve been collecting articles and links since mid…
Imagine that every time you have a lapse in judgment, it gets printed in newspapers around the world: every time you lose patience with your children, every time you scream at someone in traffic, every time you drink too much and do something you regret. Each time you slip up, everyone hears about it. The world is never notified about the 99.99% of the time that you are a completely normal, productive, law-abiding citizen. The world only learns about you when things go wrong. Now imagine what the world would think of you.
It’s not that terrorism, patriarchy, and violence aren’t real problems in Pakistan. They exist and the country is battling these issues every single day. Pakistanis are very much aware of the extremism in their midst. The problem is that so many people seem to only be aware of that extremism. Because just as in the hypothetical example above—the other 99.99% of life just doesn’t make the news. When there’s only room in the newspaper for a single column about Pakistan, it’s going to be filled with the most compelling story. And unfortunately, that tends to be the most violent story.
And those are important stories. Those are the types of stories that expose corruption, stop genocide, and alert the world to emerging threats. It’s right for those stories to be told. But when those stories are all that we hear, it’s so easy to imagine a world that’s far scarier than it really is. You lose sight of the 99.99% of the world that’s not scary at all. And living in fear can be a dangerous thing. Because if we’re afraid of each other, we’ll never be able to work together to solve our common problems.
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