- Home
- About
- Context
- The Learning Exchange Story
- The Call
- Getting to know the Downtown Eastside
- Becoming the Director
- Starting the Trek Program
- Climbing Mount Everest
- Finding my right hand man
- Learning about Community Service Learning
- Opening the storefront
- Moving in from the margins
- Music as a bridge
- The first Reading Week Community Service Learning project
- Engaging in inner city schools
- Unleashing students’ creativity
- Binners on campus
- Trial and error at the storefront
- Starting the ESL program
- Becoming a success story
- Growth in the Trek Program and Reading Week projects
- Seeing the value of Community Service Learning
- How Community Service Learning promotes learning
- Integrating Community Service Learning into academic courses
- UBC’s vision
- Building organizational culture
- Five core practices
- Aligning with our sense of purpose
- Stabilizing the ESL program
- Stabilizing the Reading Week model
- Collaborating with the YWCA
- Winds of change
- Rebuilding the staff team
- Re-thinking our approach to curricular Community Service Learning
- The strategic plan for CSL and CBR
- New space, new funds
- Taking my leave
- Reflections
- Being on the outside
- The Learning Exchange as social innovation
- Living systems as guiding metaphors
- Moving along the innovation arc
- Moving along the institutionalization arc
- From the margins to the centre: Community Service Learning
- From the margins to the centre? The storefront
- Planning, action, and reflection
- Making decisions
- Taking risks
- Doing Developmental Evaluation
- Institutionalization: Holy Grail or dead end?
- Drawing on the world of commerce
- The system is the Tao
- Learning to be a change agent
- Outstanding questions
- Taking the Plunge
- Deepening the Discourse
- How can communities and universities make connections?
- How can students help put community engagement on solid ground?
- Community engagement: why bother?
- Some Key Challenges to Community Engagement
- Partnerships or Collisions? (Part 1)
- Partnerships or Collisions? (Part 2)
- Lessons learned from the Downtown Eastside
- The first step across the divide
- Reading Week spent in the “real world”
- Is the focus on tenure and promotion a red herring?
- Moving the agenda forward
- Why do more women than men engage in the community?
- Post-secondary students are needed in public schools
- Educating global citizens through community engagement
- Valuing Practical Wisdom