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Teachers touch the future:  TCC and MVP in Action!


Teachers are leaders.  We touch the future by ‘growing’ our students on their paths to their fullest potential.  That’s what we do. We lead our students to positive futures.

This is especially important in today’s day and age when so many are reliving a wide variety of distant past and recent past atrocities.  We must all realize that, like parents, we are also modeling how to deal with the present. Yes, we must be aware of the past… learn from the past… and apply those lessons in a “growth mindset” to allow our students -- and ourselves --  to make the future brighter than the past.  

As many in our MCC Community are learning, we have Jackson Katz’s “Mentors in Violence Prevention” (MVP) Program here.  MVP is an anti-violence (especially anti-gender violence) philosophy that focuses on bystander intervention training.  (See attached .pdf or contact Prof. Christine Plumeri or myself for additional information and/ or a seat at our 3-Day Spring ‘Train-the-Trainer’ Workshop.) 

In MVP terminology, we are no less than bystanders in this present moment and we are all tasked with increasing our awareness and becoming leaders to best deal with -- and improve -- the situations we collectively find ourselves in.  What we must all do is to help students create ways that allow their generation to create a better world.  We must not feed the hurt of victims, including ourselves.

Many of us also know that our Teaching & Creativity Center on both campuses are focused on this year’s theme of “Cultivating a Growth Mindset.” In TCC terminology, we must apply a growth mindset to ourselves and our students to move from our shared present reality (good and bad) and grow into a future of our own making. 

We must, therefore, speak up and protect each other in trying times, and empower the resilient spirit of growing minds. Let us all do our best to ensure that our greatest days are ahead of us if we truly act as one.

The future, sitting in our classrooms, depends on our collectively showing the way.

Submitted by Joe Sturnick and your Teaching & Creativity Center (TCC) and Mentors in Violence Prevention - MCC (MVP-MCC) Teams

Joe Sturnick
Law/CJ, TCC & MCC-MVP
12/02/2016


Attachments:
icon MVP-MCC Info Sheet 2016.pdf