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"A true community is a place where every person belongs and is known, valued, and supported. It is a place where ideas, skills, and feelings are shared as members work cooperatively toward common goals." - Judith Leipzig (1994), faculty, Bank Street College"A community is a place in which people face each other over time in all their human variety, good parts, bad parts, and all the rest. Such places promote the highest quality of life possible, lives of engagement and participation."
-John Gatto (1992), 1992 New York State Teacher of the Year
"I don't really know or understand how to be a member of a community, how to collaborate genuinely, or how to move through conflict with a certainty that we will all arrive at a place of better understanding. These things are not in my bones, because they have been missing from my culture and education. . . . We will need to develop new skills and dispositions as we place ourselves in (this) unfamiliar cultural territory." - John Nimmo (1994), faculty, Pacific Oaks College Northwest
The term "creating community" is about as common as "multicultural" in our professional vernacular. We all long to be ...