UNITY Read-In

Friday, April 3, 2009

UNITY Read-In

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FIRST ANNUAL UNITY Read-In @ The Bridge

Special Dallas friends celebrate ONE another

The AARI and DCCCD are pleased to partner with the Sai Center, local artists and The Bridge (Dallas' largest city shelter for the homeless) to reach out and touch special community members. Enjoy international, multicultural and local stories, spoken word, drumming and music.

Come listen and learn. Inspire and be inspired in the true spirit of COMMUNITY!

WE ARE ONE.

Community DRUMMERS are invited to participate! Please contact Allison.

Date Saturday, April 4, 2009 Time 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Attire casual/ethnic or a Read-In T-shirt! Represent!

Location The Pavilion @The Bridge,

1818 Corsicana Street, Dallas, TX 75201

Light refreshments will be served.

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Friday, April 3, 2009

UNITY Read-In

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