Posted in Dr. Bethanie Tucker, Mental Models on Apr 28th, 2010 1 Comment »
Recently I was honored to present alongside Dr. John Gardner at the statewide Student Success Symposium in Little Rock, Arkansas, sponsored by the Arkansas State Department of Higher Education. During a fireside chat session, Dr. Gardner challenged all participants to identify their own “big ideas” and pursue them. Several people shared theirs, and their enthusiasm [...]
Posted in Bethanie Tucker, Mental Models, Strategies & Techniques on Jan 14th, 2010 No Comments »
I almost always experience aha! moments when I hear Ruby Payne speak, and one of her comments at the Bridges National Conference in October was, for me, among the greatest ahas ever. During her session Ruby shared research (Farah et al., 2006) showing that although poverty has a detrimental effect on the development of some [...]
Posted in Bridges, Community, Diversity, Mental Models, Phil DeVol on Oct 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
Communities that use Bridges concepts to address poverty have a way of talking about poverty and prosperity that leads to direct action. The conversations that lead to the action includes people of all classes, races, sectors, and political persuasions.
I’ve seen this in action and know it to be true, but I didn’t really appreciate how [...]
Posted in Bethanie Tucker, Dr. Bethanie Tucker, Mental Models, Strategies & Techniques on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
I recently read the book Thought and Language by Lev S. Vygotsky and Alex Kozulin. The section about writing illuminates the need for using mental models when teaching writing to young children. Some of the points that lead to this reality include:
Writing is different from speech in a number of ways:
“Writing is speech without an [...]
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