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Perhaps it is getting older, or perhaps it is that I require order out of the chaos of the world around me, but lately I have noticed that my body and my emotions respond to a the daily ritual I have followed for years. I think I have always been a person who appreciates the rhythm and sequence of daily life, yet now this appreciation has become even more apparent to me.
“Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.” Spinoza (Ethics, Part III, Propositions)
According to one dictionary, the word redemption means: ”forgiveness or absolution for past errors” and “protection from disgrace.” I like this term because it encompasses forgiveness and also because hope often comes along as a result. All three, redemption, forgiveness and hope, are intertwined in powerful ways. The interesting question is, who grants redemption? Continue Reading
Recently I have been thinking about what it might be like if we all decided “not to know”; if we entered situations, discussions, negotiations, classrooms, not as experts but as investigators. I say this because after years of work in middle and high school teaching, in training teachers and holding discussions about race and equity, I have observed that those who seem to get the most out Continue Reading
In my thirty years of teaching in public schools and colleges I have known very few teachers who want their students to fail. Most of us know that it is the success of our students that determines whether we have succeeded at our jobs.
Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet.