Lane Graciano

Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Global soul, Idea generator, Life mentor, Performer, Project manager

design, poetry, music, who makes things, how things work, why things fail, what makes us go on

We should all be feminine (not the same as feminist)

literature, movies, music, performance, theory of knowledge, trivia

I started, like everyone else in 2006, by watching Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on why we must nurture creativity in students. Eight years later, I organized my first TEDxYouth conference at the request of two of my IB students. I’ve transcribed and translated TED and TEDx talks as well as TED-Ed videos. The year when most of us were locked down by Covid, I co-hosted and attended TED Circles online. In 2018, I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend TEDWomen in Palm Springs, where I met Chris Anderson as well as Marian Wright Edelman, Dolores Huerta and Tarana Burke, and shared a late-night limo with Lucy Cooke. One highlight was the video call I made to my TEDxJIS student team back in Jakarta, where they were having a lunchtime meeting at school while I was attending the evening welcome party. I am continuing to help students organize TEDx conferences in the international schools where I work. Students are creative, all right – not to mention passionate, intelligent, collaborative, hard-working and fun-loving. We adults just have to keep nurturing all these traits in them.

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