I went like almost all my classmates, i went to new york. When it's time for you to to leave yel and then go into the railroad, you end up back in new york after that riht over there. I just felt one day like i was putting on shows for my friend. At that moment when i was starting to feel that way, i read a book called amazing grace,. And it was about the lives of school children in the south bronx. It might as well have been a different planet from the one i grew up on. There was so much i didn't know. But i had no idea exactly what people were living through until i read
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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