Archival issues of the ATA Magazine can be just as relevant now as they were when originally published, or they can remind us how far we’ve come. You decide.
Check out these items from the January/February 1995 issue of the ATA Magazine, which took a look at, among other topics, diversity in schools.
Schools need to be places where people grow in the conviction they have value, they can help shape their worlds and they can know the pleasure of transformation, individually and communally.
To live together successfully in schools all of us — students, teachers, administrators, janitors, secretaries, resource persons — must learn to embrace the paradox of community without unity, community with diversity. By acknowledging and celebrating diversity we can create communities in which security and dignity and compassion and care are all joyfully present. Genuine community will be known in the experience of unity in diversity and diversity in unity.
— Carl Leggo
“The School As A Community”
It takes hope to notice the teachable moment. It takes courage to try something new. It takes vision and hope especially when you've been doing it for six or more years. But you can only give hope to others if you have hope in yourself.
This is why teachers, too, must be lifelong learners, vibrant and celebrating life. This is the only way we can transmit to students a world that is richer and more satisfying than the media's illusory promises of affluence, glamor and success.
— David Knight
“Somebody Deserves a Medal”
Excellence in teaching is more than getting the day’s lesson plans done. It’s about dealing with a class and treating each member in that class as a human being, each with his or her own worth and dignity.
— Winnifred Settle
“A Mother’s View of Integration”
