Teaching as Soul Nourishment

I have the honor of working with students who care about what we do. It occurred to me today that I hadn't told students their grades for either of our major projects this semester. Never once did they ask me about a grade. For one of the big projects that we did in the fall, when I gave them their grades in class at the end of the semester, their response was, "Huh, we were graded on that?" I tell them that the work we are doing in the course is about changing the world and they accept that. Today is the Feast Day of our founding Mother, and I can't help but think that she would be proud of what we're doing at SR. We are teaching students to be deeply invested in the world around them. I love having a job that I genuinely believe in; I love that my personal and professional sense of fulfillment can be so much in sync.