CAMPUS AS CLASSROOM

Cassandra Stand ’24

Through every keynote speaker who shared their wisdom with us at the Round Square International Conference, I remember most vividly one phrase, “You are more than you think you are.”

We tend to think of change as a scary, unforeseen thing. Something that we want to reach, but are scared to take the steps there and move outside of our comfort zone—myself included.

We think that we are small, that our individual actions are drops in an ocean of problems that is much larger than any one of us. And yet, we continue to reach forward and create things, change things, build things. Though it may seem small on an individual level, it is that reaching forward that brings us toward a brighter future when we can appreciate the old and the comfortable and mix it with the new and the equitable.

By Shannon MacDonald Lower School Literacy Coordinator & Literacy Specialist