For the next five weeks I will be living at the Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago, and participating in a Very Rigorous Teacher Training Program (VRTTP) with hundreds of other new teachers eager to transform student lives. Quite a lot is invested in our continued inspiration during our time here. Some will draw real energy from our organization's Vision, which is distinct from our Mission; some will be moved by our Core Values, which are distinct from our Norms. And of course nothing motivates the way Frameworks motivate.
To each his own, of course, but I intend to draw my energy one mile from campus on the newly-christened Sam Cooke Way.
Nearly 80 years after he moved to Chicago as a child, legendary soul singer Sam Cooke was honored with the renaming of a street Saturday afternoon near his boyhood home in Bronzeville....The renamed street, a stretch along 36th Street, runs near the site of the deceased musician’s family’s original home at 3527 Cottage Grove. “Sam Cooke Way” begins at Cottage Grove and runs east past another one of his boyhood homes at 724 E. 36th St.
Sam was a teacher, too. Here he is helping out The Soul Stirrers.
The Soul Stirrers - Oh Mary, Don't You Weep (Chatter)
The Soul Stirrers - Oh Mary, Don't You Weep
You may not believe this, but no time lost/the water rolled back and the children crossed.
Indeed.
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Also: Jerry Butler is the Cook County Commissioner? That's probably worth it's own post, but for now I'll just celebrate with a favorite tune from the Iceman.
Jerry Butler & Betty Everett - I Can't Stand It
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