In a day and age where we set on a precipice it seems, our future is in the hands of those who do not see the differences but embrace each other.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms. I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders. I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs. I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry. I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry. I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning. Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate15 responses »
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ivonprefontaine
Teacher as Transformer 
agree… 🙂
Amen.
Amen again.
I love this, Ivon. So wonderful.
Ralphie had a great one. It speaks volumes today.
Danke für Deinen Besuch.
Freundliche Grüsse, Wolfgang
I think this is the way to say you are welcome in German: Gern geschehen
Friend thanks for the letter.
Also we wish all good.
Beautiful Sunday.
Wolfgang from Germany
You are most welcome.
Perfect post for today!
Yes, Ralph had a good one.
I’ve always admired the creativity and message of the “Coexist” graphic in your post. Coexisting is a great first step, and I believe that humanity has the potential to do and be so much more. Forgive. Share. Celebrate the many ways we are the same and unique. Transform from “them” and “us” to simply and magnificently “us”.
Russ
Extremely well put Russ. Your words are great complement to Ralph’s wonderful picture and simple plaintive plea.
Very Nice. Love it absolutely.
Yes it was a beautiful post by Ralph.