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...the Tepper Reads book club,
for helping MBA students develop empathy.
Tepper Reads is part of the MBA programme
at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper
School of Business. Carnegie Mellon, based
in Pittsburgh, is one of the top universities in
the US.
The Tepper Reads book club was launched
to help MBA students empathize with people
from different backgrounds. At a recent ses-
sion, students discussed the novel What We
Lose, by African American writer Zinzi Clem-
mons. The university paid for Clemmons to
travel from her home in Los Angeles to attend
the discussions.
The book club is part of an optional empa-
thy course. “We are the most human part of
what can feel like a pretty mechanical degree
experience,” says Leanne Meyer, executive
director of Tepper’s Accelerate Leadership
Center. “MBA students are often looking for
that one right answer to a question to get a
competitive edge,” Meyer told the Financial
Times. “What we wanted to teach was that
there is more than one way to think, so there
might be three right answers.”
Meanwhile, author Clemmons says she
also benefited from meeting Tepper stu-
dents. “I like that they seem very open to
creative paths, and I wasn’t expecting that,”
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...Now Teach,
for helping experienced professionals devel-
op new careers as teachers.
Now Teach was founded in 2016 by for-
mer Financial Times columnist Lucy Kella-
way and history professor Katie Waldegrave.
Describing her motivation for this radical
change in careers, Kellaway says, “I had spent
so long writing columns that I was no longer
getting any better at it and was possibly get-
ting worse.” She adds on the organization’s
website that she “longed to start all over
again doing something new, difficult and
worthwhile”.
Responding to a teacher shortage in the
UK, Now Teach has so far trained 122 pro-
fessionals who are serving in schools in Lon-
don and Hastings. From September 2019,
the organization will also provide teachers
in the West Midlands and East Anglia. They
concentrate on training teachers for subjects
such as maths, science, computer science,
languages and geography.
Now Teach trainees come from a variety
of backgrounds, including banking, diplo-
macy, management consulting, marketing,
engineering and law. “Jobs for life are a thing
of the past,” Kellaway notes. “I’m bone-tired
at the end of the day through having done
an honest day’s work,” she told The Guardian.
https://nowteach.org.ukFull marks to ...
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