Touchstones Spotlight on Outer Island Collaborative
Touchstones Spotlight on Outer Island Collaborative Interview by Brittany Usiak, K-12 and Adult Programs Manager For our last Touchstones Spotlight of the school
Beyond Curricular Expectations
By Greg Hodges The importance and value of collaborative, civic discourse has been pronounced in many of the organizations to which I have belonged.
Screened-In Summer Programs
By Abraham Zhao Has everyone started using “Zoom”, “Google Meet,” or “Microsoft Teams” in their daily vocabulary yet? Zoom became a part of my
Commitment To Civics
By Howard Zeiderman Early this year, the Mt. Desert Island Regional School System (MDIRSS) contacted Touchstones. They wanted to take a great step forward
Hard Work And Bittersweet Fruit
By Stefanie Takacs In our April and July newsletters, we wrote about our Saturday community discussions—one of our early responses to being physically isolated
Recent Fiction as Navigating an Emerging and a Virtual World
A New Touchstones Discussion Program Since late spring, once a month 12 professionals— lawyers, CEOs, investors, entrepreneurs—sign onto a ZOOM meeting to spend 90
Bridging the Distance
By Stefanie Takacs Over the last five months, we’ve become more acutely aware of distance. The word enters our daily language more times and
Shaping the New Normal
By Jenn Macris Like other non-profits, businesses and organizations around the world, Touchstones is moving forward in the new normal we all face due
Adapting to a Remote- Access World
By Abraham Zhao The staff at Touchstones is hard at work making necessary transitions in this new educational environment online. Some teachers we have
Our Approach to Uncertainty
By Stefanie Takacs We at Touchstones are well-versed in and quite comfortable with situations of high uncertainty—what is more unpredictable than a Touchstones workshop
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