ABSTRACT
Marina: Welcome. The drum calls us together to listen, to listen with our hearts as well as our heads.
Kathy: From January to April, 2001, thirty-six teachers met in a course titled “Living the Research in Everyday Practice.” The course was initiated by the organizing committee for ICTR in order to provide Richmond teachers with opportunities to research their everyday experiences. The teachers researched their practice and shared stories through poetry, performance, art, narrative, and journal writing. As the stories were shared, a thread of caring for students and ourselves emerged, weaving a tapestry of incredible texture and beauty. The prose and poetry in this work are fragments of this tapestry. There are bright and dark colours. Threads of caring, sharing and laughing are woven in with judging, doubt, tears and guilt.
