seabury hall performing arts

••• the new creative arts center continued from page 7
…because
we are all
just people
in a room:
21st Century teaching is about creating positive
environments and jumping inside them to work
alongside kids as they wrestle with problems and
invent solutions. Both teachers and students are
just people in a room: each brings a richly varied
experience and expertise to the shared work of
exploring issues and creating solutions. In this
process, we create ourselves.
…because
art is the soul
in action:
In Hawaiian culture, the
creative act is a spiritual act.
In the artistic process we delve
deep inside where our personal
psyche connects with our shared
culture as well as our earth,
sea, and sky. What surfaces
is personal and universal,
individual and shared.
…because learning is messy
In education we struggle with where
to put the emphasis — on the process
or the product. But if we think back
on our own school experience,
we realize that process IS the
product. Our job is to produce
confident people who trust the
messy process of working
with others toward a
solution. That is the
product. That’s what the
Creative Arts Center
produces: it’s a factory
of Being. •••
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