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One of the questions I get asked, all the time, is, “Why is your culture so important to you?” Though I hear it all the time, I’m amazed that it’s even asked. In my experience, it seems like people tend… Continue Reading →
In the barrio where I grew up, we called ourselves, Chicanos. I always believed that was what I was: A Chicano kid. I had no idea growing up that there isn’t any real such thing as a Chicano. I came… Continue Reading →
Down deep, he wanted anyone to see him on his bathroom floor, just so that someone could see that he hurt too much to even sit or lie down in comfort. He wanted his mom, his dad, or even, his… Continue Reading →
Clouds make noise. I know they do because I hear them all the time. It’s a loud, grumbling noise. Like a jet. Thing is, it’s no jet thunder, but the sound that a thick and dense and gray mass makes… Continue Reading →
The other morning, while visiting my grandmother’s grave, I lifted a pinecone off of her headstone. I looked at it’s woody cradles and cursed its audacity: It covered the “Que” from the Madrecita Querida inscription and I launched that pinecone… Continue Reading →
One of the many things I teach is something I call, Social System Homeostasis, and it is composed of: Stable Social Systems (SSS) = when an individual’s mental constructs are in harmony with other’s perceived views of the individual. A… Continue Reading →
For me, leadership is a personal goal that I hope to one day reach. I don’t mean that one day I want to be the CEO of some company or another; I mean that I want to affect someone’s life… Continue Reading →
I am compelled to present two concepts that speak to the heart of what I believe: (1) psychological empowerment; and (2) locus of control. According to Spreitzer (1995), Psychological Empowerment is the unbreakable set of four beliefs: (1) Meaning, which… Continue Reading →
Empowering approaches to leadership challenge the leader to become a teacher who teaches followers how to lead both themselves and others. Approaches such as those found in, Creating leaderful organizations: How to bring out leadership in everyone, by J. Raelin stipulates that… Continue Reading →
It doesn’t take a lifetime of intense research to see the inequalities in the public school systems that stem from socioeconomic circumstances. I took a drive one day and just looked around Santa Fe. First, I drove through the East… Continue Reading →
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