i was inspired by a high school student who had been an alcoholic. She and other students would read out loud, listen to each other's stories. When writers visited us they'd read some of their one of the books they had written with the kids. We'd read it together and talk about it. And so that conversation, again, is modelled on that ongoing correspondence i used to do with the kids at the high school. Neither of us is inherently superior. Neither of us knows more than the other. We know different things from what the other knows, but we don't know more and we don't know better. We just know different things, and we're trying to find our
Stephen Haff is the founder of Still Waters in a Storm, a one-room school serving mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant children in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Previously, he taught English at a public school in Bushwick for nearly a decade, before leaving to recover from the effects of extreme psychological stress that led him to re-evaluate how he would return to serve kids as an educator and activist. In his new book, Kid Quixotes (https://amzn.to/34zxPit). Stephen shares a powerful story about the kids and an incredible 5-year project to translate and perform a modern version of Don Quixote. He earned his MFA in Theater Studies at Yale, and has made a living directing plays and writing essays for the Village Voice and other publications.
You can find Stephen Haff at: Website: http://www.stillwatersinastorm.org/
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