Today's Guideline conversation with Darryl Redick and Michelle Ramirez focused on Story. In a conversation that referenced to Tupac and Reggio, Jackie Robinson and Joseph Campbell, they spoke with incredible openness and vulnerability about the central role of story in a learning community.

Darryl offered,

"When you create an open environment, when you create a space where everybody can feel safe, feel like they can share who they are, without judgment, you can't help but be touched by it and change in some kind of way.

"There's always something inside of us that is pulling at us to pay attention to this moment - to pay attention to what's happening, even to the extreme of a child passing - or it could just be a child fascinated looking in the mud and seeing worms or roly-polies. And if you're paying close attention to see, there's a look in children's eyes - there's a look in adults’ eyes as well. There's something that lights up - it's almost like you can see some kind of energy there. That's the sign that this is the story that needs to be told; that this is the story that needs to be listened to; this is something that I need to pay attention to. I just need to be present, even if I don't know what the story is being told."

I hope you'll find the time to listen to this important and inspiring conversation.

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