Neighborhood Collaboration Session on the Use of Storytelling to Enhance Social Consciousness, Develop Leaders, and Foster Belonging in a Faculty Setting

Each Sagdrina and Rukia are Social Justice Activists and Educators with intensive expertise supporting leaders to develop their affect via using storytelling and genuine engagement. They began the expertise with a commemoration and acknowledgment of the Muscogee tribe and African American slaves who have been stewards of the land that we occupy. This reflection transitioned right into a dialogue about mission-driven programming, utilizing The Highlander School of Atlanta as a case research.

One of many core rules of the Highlander Faculty’s mission is that youngsters are “lively discoverers and constructors of their very own data,” and that “they’ve the proper….to be part of the decision-making course of.” To meet this mission, Rukia talked about how the college should always and rigorously replicate on the methods their mission and values are current in day by day actions. As an illustration, when college students encountered an unhoused individual asking for meals, they began to ask questions, and expressed a want to assist improve meals fairness of their neighborhood. Educators allowed the scholars to take the lead, and they also made bowls for unhoused individuals to eat from, they usually impressed the creation of a neighborhood backyard accessible to everybody in want. This is only one instance of how tales can replicate and talk the values and missions of a company in significant, tangible methods.