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SUMMER INSTITUTE ON
MAKING SENSE OF CHANGE 2005

Cleatious Dobbins

CHANGE



MAKING SENSE OF CHANGE,
IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN DO?
SHOULD WE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE?

FOR THE LAST 4 WEEKS,
IVE BEEN BESIEGED BY THE BRAIN
AND CHANGE ANEW.

STORIES, HYPOTHESIS, SCIENCE.
MY BRAIN WAS ALL ASKEW.
BUT MANY THINGS WERE BROUGHT TO LIGHT
TO MAKE MY BRAIN THINK NEW.

NEW THOUGHTS, NEW IDEAS, NEW TECHNIQUES WERE INTRODUCED,
MANY OF WHICH I PLAN TO USE WITH ALL OF MY RECRUITS.

AS EDUCATORS WE STRIVE TO BRING FORTH POSITIVE CHANGE AND THOUGHT.
WE BUILD BRIDGES OF CHOICE TEN MONTHS OF THE YEAR,
THAT WE HOPE OUR CHILDREN WILL CROSS,
WITHOUT TREPIDATION OR FEAR.

WHEN THEY CROSS THESE BRIDGES OF CHANGE ,CHOICE,
BRIDGES OF THOUGHT,
WE HOPE AND PRAY
THAT ALONG THE WAY
THEY OBSERVE

AND UNDERSTAND,
THAT CHANGE IS CONSTANT,
CHANGE IS STILL,
CHANGE IS RIGHT,
CHANGE IS WRONG,
CHANGE CAN BE WEAK,
CHANGE CAN BE STRONG,
CHANGE IS A COMPOSER
THAT WRITES ITS OWN SONG.




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