Thanks from Kent, Enel and Edvard

May 25, 2011 I was so grateful for the chance to visit 20 cities across the U.S. and Canada on my recent book tour with “After Shock.” Thank you to everyone I spoke with at universities, churches, seminaries, and bookstores. Thank you to those who helped organize these events. It’s an honor to tell stories […]

A Haiti Partners’ Prayer

Recently twenty-six of us gathered for Haiti Partners first annual Partners Retreat in South Florida. (We’ll open it to more people next year, but wanted to start small as we figure out the best way to do this.) We’re building community. We’re learning from each other. We’ve moving forward in the mission of “helping Haitians […]

10th Annual Open Space Gathering: June 23-26

May 24, 2011 Open Space meeting format is an important tool that Haiti Partners and organizations in our network use to engage people’s involvement in plans and decisions that will influence their lives. Each year the Annual Open Space Gathering convenes 70-90 educators and community leaders who are either practitioners of Open Space meeting format, […]

Professional Learning Communities

May 24, 2011 We have the privilege of hosting in Haiti Anette Little and Sally Barton-Arwood. Both are professors at Belmont University with doctorates in education. Yesterday, they did a seminar with leadership of our partner schools in Leogane area on developing Professional Learning Communities (PLC). Sally and Anette did an excellent job. Their training […]