I Have a Dream for Us ~ Take My Hand and Leap into its IN-possibilty

I Have a Dream for Us ~ Take My Hand and Leap into its IN-possibilty

The first thing students hear and see when they walk into their "star nebula", their birthplace as the shining stars they truly are, is this video and their teacher greeting them with "Ohayōgozaimasu Samurai Bushi!" (Good morning, Samurai warriors!)


They face me and respond back with "Ohayōgozaimasu sensei!" (Good Morning, Teacher!)".

And so begins our daily dream that we have become united in fighting for and will be evaluating ourselves on; 

     That one day we will not be judged by the level of our test scores on someone else's tests or our score-ability on someone else's checklists, but by ourselves on our own ability to dream our very biggest dreams and throw our entire selves at making them happen.

Our entire selves.

Not some of ourselves some of the time,

when it's easy and everyone is approving and cheering us on.

But when it is hard

and others are telling us to stop and that we're wrong. 

that we could get hurt 

and talk about how foolish we are being.

The only way to do this is to see the star of Martin Luther King and take it down out of the sky. Place it inside of us and allow his dream to fuel our own and to go after it with as much passion as he did and with as much fire as the Sun does every single day we're alive.

All I ask of my students each day is to have faith in their dreams and place their hands in mine. And then jump off the cliff with me into the creation of their very IN-possible dreams.

Thank you, MLK for living a life that is still very much alive inside of us and showing the way for us to make it happen, with courageous intelligence.