Classy Learning

I wrote this post last Friday and am just now getting around to posting it:

This week, I have been taking a class called School, Family, and Community Partnerships. It is about collaboration and the benefit that can have on student achievement. Although, it is Friday and I am now just bit worn out from class all day every day for the last five days, I am really enjoying the class. I have met such interesting people, who are doing such great things, with such different outlooks, and to top it off, have a professor that is extremely knowledgeable and active in everything he talks about. It just helps me realize how much I appreciate being in grad school at a major university. I appreciate that in my class there are three people from India, a man from Liberia, a Hmong School Board Member, a pre-school teacher, a lawyer for the NAACP, a PR person from a local school district, and a parks and rec employee.

My experience in this class, and grad school in general, has been so rich because of the great variety of classes I have been able to take, the great variety of people I have met, and the fascinating backgrounds of my professors. This week has been a great reminder that what I am doing right now is exciting, spectacular, and has been a fabulous experience for me.