Educator. Humanitarian. Founder of the JVDT Methodology. Teaching hope & critical thinking from Ukraine to France. https://xitter.cf/t.co/ByuUxNQDx5
Kyiv, Ukraine
Joined April 2008
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Ukraine Gave Up Its Nuclear Weapons. What Became of the Promises?
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Sarajevo 1992: Ukraine Was Not Yet a Year Old. Its Peacekeepers Were Already There.
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Jarosław: A Month of Suffering, Courage and Grace
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Check out my latest article: “They've Given Us Nothing”: The Ukrainian Soldiers America Once Honoured in Iraq
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19:45, Kyiv. No electricity. Marking English tests by battery-powered lamplight. Then the warnings arrive: incoming missiles. The marking stops.
The small, giant challenges of teaching in a war zone. Why Ukraine's teachers need more than our admiration.
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I’ve written about Ukraine’s teachers, whose commitment keeps children learning through war. When we praise their resilience, we also need to ask what that work costs them and what support they need to sustain it.
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JVDT Insights return with three words that connect my teaching, writing and work in creative communities: remember, relearn, rebuild. I begin with a reflection on memory, learning and making room for one another.
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I just published the first reflection in my new AI, Arts & Learning series.
It begins with a simple classroom moment: a teacher moving his chair away from the front of the room and sitting down beside the students.
The post explores uncertainty, neurographic intuitive mapping, emotional regulation, and what happens when learning becomes less polished, more human, and more willing to leave evidence of its own beginning.
Sometimes learning begins with nothing more sophisticated than sitting beside someone, making an uncertain mark, and trusting that meaning may eventually find its way through the mess.
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Self-awareness is a student’s first mirror.
When learners can name their strengths and struggles honestly, they begin to guide their own growth.
#education #JVDTmethodology #growthmindset
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The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business! At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
October was silence. November is Vox Vitae — the voice of life returning.
Not a launch. A renewal.
To speak what gives life.
To serve what restores dignity.
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Every lesson shapes the mind and the heart.
Teaching values is not an addition to learning. It is the purpose of it.
#JVDTLearning #Education #Values #Character
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Metacognition teaches us to watch our own minds at work, the bridge from confusion to clarity.
We’ve also released the Beta version of the JVDT-7 Cognitive Framework and Moral Architecture on our site.
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A classroom comes alive when students find their voice.
Listening builds respect. Speaking builds confidence.
Together, they build learning.
#JVDTLearning #StudentVoice #Education #Teaching
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Education is not just about knowing. It is about becoming. When students see their stories in what they learn, identity becomes the engine of growth. Love. Respect. Happiness.
#JVDTLearning #Education #Teaching #LearnerIdentity
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Emotional strength. Healthy relationships. Moral growth.
This is what learning should lead to.
#JVDT #Education #EmotionalIntelligence
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Tonight, in the darkness of Kyiv, a promise will be kept.
Before midnight, Jacoba.org – In Her Words will go live: a living memorial to a life of teaching, service, and steadfast faith. This is not a monument but a continuation, of values, of voice, of vocation. Even here, under blackout skies, light finds its way.
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Just before midnight in Kyiv, the sirens began again.
Tomorrow, I will press Publish.
Jacoba.org — a living covenant, not an archive.
A story kept in trust will walk into the light.
Because love, steadfast and unarmed, remains the only kingdom worth serving.
#Jacoba #Ukraine #memory #faith #love #kingdom #MyMother
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