Once Upon a School
Published
Tuesday
March 18, 2008
Dave Eggers gave a fantastic talk at this year’s TED conference about his 826 Valencia project, an after-school reading/writing program, which, as you may recall, my friend Lee volunteers at.
But the real point of Eggers’ talk was to show how easy it is to get involved with schools in your area and to ask for your help with his new project Once Upon a School. Once Upon a School is asking everyone to find a way to directly engage with a school in your area and then asking you to tell the story, so that within one year it will have 1000 examples.
Of course the point isn’t the stories, but the involvement. All it really takes to change people’s live is someone to stop and take the time.
As Eggers says in the video, the one-on-one attention makes the children happy, “and that makes a happy family, a bunch of happy families in the neighborhood is a happy community, a bunch of happy communities tied together is a happy city and a happy world.”
[Note to the TED conference, okay, the older videos, no embed code, that’s fine, it was 2005. But this is 2008, and there’s still no embed code? EPIC FAIL]
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