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Innovation looks like love. There is no other way to put it. If you are truly involved in education it means you cry on a daily basis. It means you give your best because you cherish every single person around you and who may come after you.  I am humbled by my students who have gone through more then I can ever imagine, and by the staff I work with who offer support when I can barely see my way. If I am truly aware of how I see the world and my place in it, I can offer a view that may spark someone else’s imagination and give them a sense of how their presence and art makes a difference in the world. Art is life it is a universal connection that we all feel. It is not only a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, or a poem, it is of our souls and how we translate our experience to another person. The place where I work is a connection, an umbilical cord where the ones who may feel few and far between save the most so at a time of readiness can give the most. New Urban High School is a community thriving on the outskirts making the impossible look easy. We are modeling every single aspect of what it means to be alive, sometimes it means starting with the individual threads to make a quilt.

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