Seeing (or at least hearing about) some results...

Posted by Adrienne on 9 October 2008 | 0 Comments

This week we performed 2 shows at an elementary school in Everett. When we finished our last show and were tearing down our equipment, the principal came over to thank us. He told us that a student at the school hadn't been able to attend the first assembly with his class because he was actually in the principal's office due to a recent bullying incident he had been involved with. After his teacher saw Alexander and the Dragon, she requested that he could view the following assembly with another class because she thought it would be beneficial for him to see. The principal said that afterwards he approached his teacher and said, "I'm really glad I saw that. Now I understand what I've been doing."

It was so wonderful to hear that what we were doing was affecting someone in such a positive way! Often times we don't get to see what, if any, change happens at a school since we are only there for a couple hours; but hearing about this one small change so immediately after we'd done our show was so uplifting! It made me feel like if we could help that one kid realize he needed to think about how he was treating others that we'd truly done our job. What more can we ask for!

Until next time,
Adrienne