NOLA Bound
What does it require to survive 17 storms in the last 12 years? 21 in the last 20? I hope once again for us to learn from them, to gain some perspective, to help where we can.
Some Hope for Holly Springs: Royal Oak Interact in Mississippi
Ten years ago, my Interact (youth Rotary) students told me that they wanted to do more than simply stage charity drives—they wanted to go out and help people directly. But as a high school English teacher, I hardly knew where to begin. On top of simply finding the...
Listening to Joplin
The following is a republishing of my blog post on The Royal Oak Patch, June 27, 2011 Somewhere through the middle of a week like Joplin I begin to ask myself what I can possibly say to help my students process their experience, to learn from it whatever lessons they...
Joplin Ahead
The following is a republishing of my blog post from The Royal Oak Patch on June 18, 2011. Local Voices Interact’s trip to Joplin, Missouri, will be a unique and powerful experience for us! On Sunday we leave for our fifth disaster relief trip with National...
In the Spirit of the Holiday
Far be it for me to recommend holiday gifts, especially after that magna-glut of materialism, Black Friday. But now that America has its collective fix of self-indulgence and pseudo-savings (how many of us set a budget before we left home that day?), it may be that we...About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School.
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