An Adventure in Excellence:	E. Todd
A Community Portrait	1997

Rationale for Care Statements:

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Definitions: "Spiritual . . . ." "Reverence . . . ." "A democratic community . . . ." "A civilized community . . . ." "A spiritual act . . . ." "To be spiritual . . . ."

Consequences: If the human beings whose lives are affected by the school accept these definitions the following consequences will occur at _______________________________.

"Whatever we do in a public school depends upon what we think civilized human beings are capable of accomplishing in their lives. The goals we seek, the things we do, the judgments we make, even the experiments we are willing to try, are determined by our beliefs about the nature of an individual and his/her capabilities."(Todd, 1985, 1995)

1. A. Belief: If we believe that a human being has a spiritual inner self which can help facilitate civilized growth and purposeful anger . . . .

B. Needed Actions:

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2. A. Belief: If we believe that human beings can maintain a spiritual identity in a democratic community . . . .

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3. A. Belief: If we believe . . . .

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A public school has the potential for becoming a spiritual community when the following conditions exist:

1. The system of educational ideas evolves from (1) care statements, (2) definitions and consequences, and (3) beliefs and actions of spiritual human beings.

2. Professional and support personnel are employed not only for their professional competence but also for their potential for . . . .

3. The curriculum . . . .

4. Members of the spiritual community support the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.

5. School board members . . . .

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Each community portrait will contain a description of a spiritual dimension as follows:

1. The spiritual dimension of a democratic community can be described as . . . . (See appendix ________)

2. The spiritual dimension of an ethical community can be described as . . . . (See appendix ________)

3. The spiritual dimension of a scholarly community can be described as . . . . (See appendix ______)

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"The curriculum can be defined as the planned educational experiences offered by a school which can take place anywhere at any time in the multiple context of the school, e.g. public schools as caring communities, as scholarly communities . . . . (Todd, 1965, 1992).

"The physical boundaries of spiritual classrooms exist only in the minds of those human beings whose lives are affected by the public schools." (Todd, 1956, 1995). "Teaching and learning can take place anywhere at any time (Todd, 1963).

"The world is the classroom."(Todd, 1969). "The universe is the classroom." (Todd, 1981, 1995).

"Before we can care for each other we must care about each other. Before we can become a caring community we must be individuals who not only care for human beings but also care for ideas, places, things, animals, etc." (Todd, 1987)

Since we can only speculate about the unlimited possibilities for educational experiences which could facilitate . . . in the third millennium we believe that future classrooms can be described as follows:

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