Teach & Serve IV, No. 33
Where Are Your Feet?
March 20, 2019
Where do we center ourselves in our work? From where do we draw balance and power? From where do we operate? Where do we walk and with whom?
Awhile back, I heard a leader I respect very much speaking about being present to the educational communities we serve. He posed a question that was brilliant in its simplicity:
“Where are your feet?”
What an excellent metaphor for us.
Where do we center ourselves in our work? From where do we draw balance and power? From where do we operate? Where do we walk and with whom?
I suggest that if are feet are out the door at the earliest opportunity each day, if they are planted firmly in faculty rooms and main offices, if they are in places that keep us away from the groups we should be serving and with whom we should be walking, we ought to re-assess our path.
Where are your feet?
Consider that. It is a simple and great question.