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| How to Build Community |
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| The Human Pass
When my former high school classmate Holly posted this collage about Community,
I thought of Adam. I took this picture
of my colleague Adam when he bopped into Room 115 on Friday and said that he
was a human pass (for one of the students who came late). It just hit me! A human pass… wouldn’t that be nice if we
could be that for one other.
As a teacher in a high school, it would be easy to go into my classroom and close the door... close the door on the outside world and community as a whole. Even then I could create a classroom community with my students or I could live in my own little kingdom. The higher calling, I think, is to create a classroom community that transcends any walls or barriers of space or time. Where I am weak, Adam is strong. The ancient African proverb is true... it really does take a village to raise a child. |
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