Pencils of Promise remained in touch with communities throughout school closures by integrating WhatsApp messaging, remote coaching and workshops, e-books and radio broadcast systems as new methods of learning. While travel restrictions remain, donors have attended virtual impact trips to Guatemala and Ghana, connecting with country teams to learn about their impact. PoP has also hosted a variety of virtual events with partners, including a wine tasting with Winc, a panel on menstrual health education with The Pad Project and a jewelry holiday trunk show with Kwiat.
PoP has taken an innovative approach to bring our community together in support of education. Pencils of Promise launched its annual year-end campaign on Giving Tuesday. We introduced audiences to the meaning behind the message of building from the inside out by highlighting programs that comprise holistic education practices.
Remote Coaching and Community Engagement in Guatemala PoP teams in Guatemala coordinated with government counterparts and adapted programmatic services to ensure communities were supported during school closures. PoP provided programmatic content through WhatsApp messaging, remote coaching sessions and video lessons.
This digital content reached over 1, parents, teachers and caregivers. The school year successfully finished, and the school year began on time. Highlights include: Over the course of two years in classrooms with PoP Teacher Support, students in Laos score significantly better on three out of five sections of a basic English literacy assessment compared with students in classrooms without Teacher Support. My teaching skills have grown and I have developed a lot in my career.
Impact Highlights Radio Literacy Programming Schools across Ghana closed in late March as a result of the pandemic and remained closed throughout the remainder of PoP teams had to quickly adapt to ensure communities were supported during such a difficult time, and to implement programs for continued learning.
PoP created a radio literacy program that aired on local radio stations and played at ten community information centers in partner communities. Our aim was to provide remote education for students until they could return to school in January Since mid, the radio program has provided access to education to more than 21, students. They were calling in to read, to ask questions. I reached a lot of new students, far and near. Since the radio teaching started, they are now able to study once again and progress in their education.
I have learned I should not feel shy when menstruating. I can apply it to any lesson I teach. I can notice that my students are now involved more during a lesson. My students have fun and are more active when learning. Lor, teacher, Laos. Now with the new construction, the students are safe under a safe roof. It was crowded and difficult for learning. To learn more about how you can raise funds and awareness for Pencils of Promise, or any c 3 nonprofit of your choice, fill out this form on our website.
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Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. His story takes readers behind the scenes with business moguls and village chiefs, world-famous celebrities and hometown heroes. Driven by compelling stories and shareable insights, this is a vivid and inspiring book that will give you the tools to make your own life a story worth telling. Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , pages. Published March 18th by Scribner first published March 1st More Details Original Title.
Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Promise of a Pencil , please sign up. I loved the book and have given it 5 stars - I had to for it's so inspirational. However, I wanted to know a bit more about the little boy in India who asked for a pencil.
Did he ever get to go to school? See 1 question about The Promise of a Pencil…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Apr 07, Laura Kudia rated it did not like it. I wanted to like this book. I really tried.
But I would hardly call this a guidebook to turn your big dreams into a reality as the cover sleeve suggests.
Adam was born into a family a privilege, worked carelessly and recklessly in a prestigious Wall Street firm, then was incredibly self-congratulatory about his project while weaving-in cliche "you can do it" mantras in each chapter. Don't get me wrong, the organization he built is incredible, but I just could NOT connect with this author at al I wanted to like this book. Don't get me wrong, the organization he built is incredible, but I just could NOT connect with this author at all.
I wouldn't recommend. View all 14 comments. Best reading of so far. Inspiring stories from a man of action. Young, smart, enthusiastic and passionate, Adam Braun started with an idea, then came to live his dream and changed the world. What he experienced during the journey was beyond his imagination, he made the world a better place, getting to associate with a lot of great people, doing things he loved and becoming a person he wished to be.
I like his humble and neutral way of expressing himself, not a narcissistic personality we se Best reading of so far. I like his humble and neutral way of expressing himself, not a narcissistic personality we see a lot nowadays among talented people, those just try to impress people and get more followers. From what he writes, he shows us just a normal person daring to do what he loves and sharing his stories along the way.
And we can learn a lot from his stories. And we know we can do the same. If we really want. The world need more people like that. View 2 comments. Mar 31, Joe rated it really liked it. Great read. Fascinating, thought provoking and heart warming. It also achieves an extraordinary level of honesty for both the good and the bad times in Adam's life.
For me, however, it did not achieve what it seems to have set out to do. But, unlike his organisation's bank account, Adam's beginnings were far from modest. He was born in a wealthy area into a well connected, su Great read. He was born in a wealthy area into a well connected, supportive family, which led him to be successful in sport, school, and work experience before he even started college. In the following years he was lucky enough to have a variety of rare experiences through which he earned connections, skills, experience and insight into both the world's biggest problems and the world of big business.
Adam is a brilliant and inspiring man who has achieved an astonishing amount in his life for such a young guy. He just doesn't exemplify how 'anybody' can achieve great things since the book mainly describes his own successes and he had such an unusually great set of opportunities.
On a more positive note, I believe there are many people in the world who do need to read this book. These people are skilled, hard working people with lucrative careers ahead of them who wrongly believe they can't have any meaningful impact on the world beyond themselves and their families. He brilliantly outlines how these people can turn their potential to help themselves into the power to change the world using his own life as a well-framed example. He shares which of his behaviours he believes led to the organisation's success as well as confessing his own mistakes and what he learned from them, giving an incredibly raw edge to the narrative.
I think this book's substantial value lies in its potential to craft world changers from affluent, talented people like himself. Those people are not just 'anybody' though, even if they may think they are, and it grates on me to hear a man, well aware of those less fortunate than himself, refer to people like himself as 'anybody'.
If it seems as though I'm focussing on a solitary negative, that's because it really is the only problem I have with the book. But it's a facet which leaves me, rather than feeling inspired as I'm sure I'm supposed to , to feeling less hopeful about my own future than I was before I read the book. I really do hope this book doesn't affect others in the same way, and I'd like to hear other people's opinion on this point; perhaps you could change my mind?
Jun 23, Kelley Taylor rated it liked it Shelves: read. I think what confused me most is the subtitle. The "ordinary guy" thing just doesn't apply. Blessed by his own admission he was raised in a pretty affluent community with great schools, he then went on to Ivy League school, graduated with three degrees, was able to intern with a hedge fund at only He's driven, disciplined, and surrounded by a network of connected people and opportunities.
I don't see how that's ordinary which can sometimes rub a reader or in this case even a fan the wrong way. Just because you are not born with a trust fund doesn't qualify you as ordinary. It sometimes reads a feigned humility like many politicians come-off as when they are speaking to a crowd.
Still, great quotes throughout. Mar 13, Amanda rated it liked it Shelves: goodreads-wins , donate. To be honest, I don't know if I liked this book or not. Don't get me wrong, I think that what Adam Braun managed to accomplish, and what he is doing with Pencils of Promise is phenomenal. But I wasn't struck by the awe that he was clearly trying to convey with his story.
Braun is a very passionate, tenacious, and most of all lucky fellow. If any of these qualities would have been lacking, his project would have failed. This book tells his story, but I wouldn't call it the guidebook to person To be honest, I don't know if I liked this book or not.
This book tells his story, but I wouldn't call it the guidebook to personal dream-fulfillment that the jacket reviews make it out to be. View all 3 comments. Apr 13, Rachel Black rated it did not like it. Immensely self-congratulatory. I think I've figured it out: There are change-the-world memoirs that just blow you away What separates them is simple: the holy-moly-that-was-good books are the ones that focus on the people the author, or subject, was reaching out to.
The others -- like this one -- focus on the author. Which is to say that I have absolutely nothing against the author, or against Pencils of Promise. Would I want to do some independent research before endorsing the latter?
Ye I think I've figured it out: There are change-the-world memoirs that just blow you away Yeah, of course. Email Address. Join Us. Start a Campaign. Feeling inspired? Launch your campaign today.
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