During the month of October community lessons in Middle School were designed to give students time and space to share their stories and explore those of their peers. The School’s values of love, joy, and peace call for all members of our community to be fully inclusive. We work to achieve this by engaging in dialogue and experiences that prompt reflection and conjure empathy for others. Kourtnay Abernathy, Middle School
IDEA Coordinator, partnered with Community Leaders this month to give students a platform in which they could collectively explore the kind of culture they would like to see at Mount Vernon. Some questions community leaders asked their classes were:
- What is culture?
- What is my culture?
- What are the characteristics of culture?
- What is your reflection on what culture means to Mount Vernon?
Students were prompted to think deeper with videos, learning guidelines, and thought-provoking questions to reflect on their and others’ culture and traditions.