While reading the below blog post from Jon Sheldahl, chief administrator at Great Prairie AEA, I thought of the writings of Michael Fullan and his frequent call for standing up for the moral purpose in schooling -- “Without moral purpose, nothing of value is achieved.”
In other words, to achieve true benefit for a community or state or country, one must be concerned with all students, not just the ones we know or work with. It is only then that the outcomes we care about are sustainable and able to contribute to the common good of society.
There are many things that may be beyond our individual influence, but we can each make a choice everyday to be kind, to choose actions that uplift those around us and to communicate our interest in the well-being of all children. When we join together with these thoughts and actions, we may be surprised at the collective influence we do have.
Paula
Perhaps no one in our great national history is more quotable than Benjamin Franklin, who stated prior to signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”. This statement was made during what is arguably the most politically uncertain time in our nation’s history. No one knew if the signers of that document would go down in history as great statesmen or be hung as traitors. It was a time when unprecedented uncertainty led to unprecedented levels of purpose, unity, and courage.
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