Transcript The Sanity Project A Survival Guide and Celebration of Homeless

Quantum Education
A Survival Guide and Celebration of
Homeless Education Liaisons
Beth McCullough
Adrian, Michigan
• Quantum Physics reveals what is going on
in the smallest unseen makeup of
everything.
• It studies the sub-atomic level of the
universe and of us.
• The rules of Physics do no not apply to
Quantum Physics. The chair you sit on is
solid. At the molecule level, the electrons
are in constant motion.
• I learned about Quantum Education
• from the BLUE GROUP
• From a mean old nun
I saw Quantum Education again when I
started working in Homeless Education.
“I don’t know if we have any homeless kids
here, but the feds say we need to hire
someone to go look for them.”
Homeless liaisons are the only one doing
what we do in the district.
Many of us do not have other staff.
…10 years later…
• “Write about success” was a job goal.
• “I want to feel less isolated.”
• I made a commitment to 4 women that I
would write weekly.
Themes emerged
Power of the job
• We have unique opportunities to make such a
significant difference.
• “Sticky frantic, wringing hands, miracles
and getting home late”
Quantum Physics
• 99.9% of each atom is made up of empty
space
• If all of the empty space was taken out of
all of the atoms in the universe, the
universe would fit…
into a sugar cube
• What is in the empty space?
• Can I affect it?
• Electrons don’t orbit the nucleus in a
continuous and consistent manner
• Electrons disappear and then appear in
another place without traveling the
distance
• These are quantum leaps
• An electron travels all of the possible
routes from A to B
• It only reveals the path it took when
observed
We are doing quantum education
• There is power in paying attention
• Liaisons are part of the empty space that
fills children’s lives
• “But she lied to me…”
Know your limitations
• “If Mom could be the Mom she wanted to
be”
• Check in with your gut and pay attention to
your physical reactions
Gertie the galloping goat
If someone gets
your goat,
move your goat!
“A big lug of a guy.”
Savor the Success
– “Pomp and Circumstance”
“Someday I will tell my grandchildren,
‘Your great-grandmother was a part of the movement to
allow all children to go to school. I know it is hard to
believe, but schools once kept children out or made
them change schools all the time, just because the
children were homeless. It wasn’t like it is today. We
actually had kids who were hungry and couldn’t go to
a doctor because they didn’t have money. Your greatgrandmother helped fix that.’
Today we can’t imagine women not having the vote and
someday we won’t be able to imagine children not
being allowed to go to school.”
-Christian McCullough
Beth McCullough M.A., L.L.P,
Adrian Public Schools
785 Riverside Ave.
Adrian, MI 49221
(517) 266-4529
[email protected]