Have you ever been in a place, experienced an Have you ever been in a place, experienced an event, had a brief encounter where you felt event, had a brief encounter where you felt like a “foreigner” “outsider” “Other”? What like a “foreigner” “outsider” “Other”? What was that experience like? was that experience like?

What might you draw from that experience to What might you draw from that experience to help you make sense of being in NYC?help you make sense of being in NYC?

Schools and Urban Society:Buildings/ Bridges

What are your expectations about NYC and life in an urban context?What do you know or assume to believe about life in a NYC school?

Where are we now?

Where have we been?

What do you want to learn ?-about yourself? -about others?What do you want to take away from this experience?What do want to leave behind?

What still continues to surprise you about yourself and others?

How might this experience reveal something about yourselfthat you never knew before?

What if we don’t like what we see?

How might we step back so that we might locate our self in the larger conversation?

How might we continuethe struggle against injustice?

Where do we need to go from here?