I strongly believe that educators need to be engaged in the community and with community members. We need to be culturally aware and sensitive, especially because the classroom population is so diverse. We need to be striving to educate ourselves about how other people live in other parts of the world, and even in other parts of the country, province and city we live in.
Here is a link to a blog I created about one of my most recent experiences, living in a small coastal community, Kyuquot, B.C.