We often have guests through our building.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels like too many guests.\u00a0 It’s always a good moment, though, as a teacher\/co-founder when the students describe our place in such awesome ways:<\/p>\n
“Don’t make them do the work, make them want to do the work.” <\/strong><\/p>\n “It’s easier to learn when you feel good.” <\/strong><\/p>\n We’re “actually connected to our community through our projects.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s funny, too, that students describe our place as a community but focus on the fact that we do a weekend update every Monday as the way of describing how we make a community.\u00a0\u00a0 To me, it’s simple humanity — how was your weekend — and the other daily activities are much more valuable in building the community.\u00a0 The way we learn to talk and listen to each other, to respectfully agree and disagree, to debate and deliberate… all that occurs during the work.\u00a0 And because we’re “actually connected to the community”,\u00a0 these conversations become real because they actually\u00a0 matter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We often have guests through our building.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels like too many guests.\u00a0 It’s always a good moment, though, as a teacher\/co-founder when the students describe our place in such awesome ways: “Don’t make them do the work, make them want to do the work.” “It’s easier to learn when you feel good.” We’re … Continue reading Three thoughts<\/span>