By Gary Hume | Oct 27, 2015
Back in 2007, as part of the Principal For A Day project in the Atlanta Public Schools, I approached the principal of my assigned school - Whitefoord Elementary – to ask if I could try introducing a concept I had created called “NetWeaving”, as...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Oct 27, 2015
It was as I neared my retirement from the faculty at Colgate University, my wife Liz and I first went to live in a refugee camp with Karen refugees from Burma. We returned each year for the next two decades, and created the Brackett Refugee Education Fund to help...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Oct 27, 2015
As an advocate, preventing homelessness of the frail elderly is high on my list. Among the growing population of older adults living in poverty are people forced to grow old in the streets and in shelters, as well as elderly persons who have recently become homeless...
By Gary Hume | Oct 26, 2015
I was a weather forecaster and a space environmentalist in the U.S. Air Force. I saw a billboard that said “TEACH” and that got me thinking. I had always viewed teaching as a noble profession and wanted to do something good, to give back to society in a...
By Gary Hume | Oct 19, 2015
McKinney worked as a stipended volunteer in a preschool program run by the national education nonprofit JUMPSTART in Los Angeles. In this video, she talks about how her encore helped low-income children with language and literacy, and energized her later years at the...
