It’s been a while…   But I made it here, after all the readings and other preparations for the intensive days. The program so far is fun. Loads of discussions and presentations in the class, which is good I think to gather and present more ideas among people. And it did help me to think […]

Because I didn’t know enough about the requirements of KIPP, I started writing my blog in the third week, and now I want to catch up on the first two weeks. I am originally from Hangzhou, China and before that I had never left my hometown, apart from travelling. Therefore, the year-long postgraduate life in […]

Remember when I said I wasn’t a good at detail? Yeah. Please excuse the mess… My initial intention for today’s blog was to take my own advice and build on last weeks reflections of ‘a need to specify’ in an attempt to define some real parameters for my project. After I hit publish last week, […]

Last week, I participated in the Exclusion and Inequality two day intensive. This post is a reflection on the journey (both educational, and physically from Orkney to Edinburgh and back) and the key points I’ll take forward from it. The lead up to the intensive was quite a stressful one. In my undergraduate degree we […]

Hi there, I hope everyone is having a good start into the week! I have certainly enjoyed all the sun we had yesterday! Doesn’t it just make life seem so much easier & everyone much happier? 🙂 Anyway, I thought I will use this week’s “freeform” to reflect a little on where I have started […]

  Last week, I got the chance to speak to some of the partners at the event in Summerhall, which was really helpful in generating some ideas for the final project. The two partners I have decided to reach out to are: Data for Children UK Edinburgh Women’s Aid Interest areas: My interest in these […]

Perfect Crossroads When I moved “back to Seattle”, I actually moved to Redmond (30k/18mi away). I chose Redmond to have the closer, stronger sense of community that I felt growing up in a small city. Serendipitously, or maybe completely by design, my desire to become part of an inclusive community in my home is intersecting […]

Because my undergraduate degree is in Information Management and Information Systems, I am interested in the inequality of information. One of my ideas is that what you see may only be what you want to see, or what others want you to see. Since Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, we have been exploring what the […]

Original Thoughts As I said in my week one post, I am interested in comparing America’s approach to their treatment of teachers with another country or region’s treatment of teachers, potentially analyzing current policies in each of the countries or even in attitudes towards their own professions.  I am fairly confident that I want to […]

This week we had our first intensives, and the results were… intense. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in being able to read vast amounts of work and somehow magically remember enough of those readings to refer back to them in discussions. Probably even more so for the students in North America who were […]