MASTER TEACHERS...  Kenton and Wendy brought their students to the Museum of Photographic Arts today and demonstrated how learning happens when adults begin by knowing  they teach first who they are.  I met Wendy for the first time today, but Kenton has been a valued friend whom I've known and admired as teacher and colleague.  Their students are undocumented adolescents who exist in political limbo in the U.S. because they don't have "papers."  They are just kids... but because they are stuck with the "undocumented label," it would be easy for them to think of themselves as substandard, inadequate, and unwanted.  I watched today as Kenton, whose first language is English, spoke to the kids in fluent Spanish; and the very tone of his voice and the manner of his movements signaled to them that they are quite the opposite of substandard, inadequate, or unwanted.  They come away from being with him knowing they are valued.  He listens to them. He respects their opinions.  He is outstanding.

We had other people in the museum today like these mothers teaching their young children the joy of books and museums and learning.  Kenton and Wendy are determined in the short time they are with  their adolescent students to give to them what these two mothers obviously want for their sons.

I found these left-over tulips in a storeroom in the museum and got this picture with my iPhone.

...couldn't resist...