The Institute for Basic Change A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
Educators' Page
Dan Prusaitis, The Institute for Basic Change's Education trainer, has worked for twenty-one years as a counselor, trainer, and activist. For the last nine years he was a public high school teacher on the West Side of Chicago, fusing his training models with the models listed to the right in his own classroom. Double click here to read more in Dan Prusaitis' Bio.
Filling in the gaps in your classroom style: more power, compassion, connection, efficiency, excitement etc..
Invigorate your classes, heighten student interest, and reinforce important content through incorporating elements of youth culture into your classroom.
Pulling the fuse on your own anger and frustration in the classroom: Finding joy in the midst of any madness.
Persuasively communicating your faith IN your students, TO your students.
Clearing your head by making good things happen.
Completely respecting young people.
Making your classroom a place where students know that their studies matter because they matter.
Breaking through artificial adult/youth barriers, communicating genuinely and effectively, truly hearing each other.
Fully accessing your creative and artistic potential for the innovations that YOUR classroom needs.
Using the power in your voice, when necessary, cleanly, without unintended anger, sarcasm or spite.
Thank you for all your work shepherding bright young eyes and hearts through crucial years of their lives.
In a society that grows increasingly cynical, greedy and heartless your work every day infuses generosity and kindness that literally tip our world back towards where it should be.
Things are far from where they should be. But you are far from exhausting reserves of talent, love, genius, and power inside you that you don't know are there. All of us have these reserves, and are very formidable forces when we uncover them.
