What is it?

Providing hospitality and care, not only to one another but to strangers and even enemies; listening and talking attentively to one another about our particular experiences in life.

Starting Questions

1. How can I make my classroom a place of welcome for those who are "other" or "different?"

2. Whose voices are not being heard in my classroom? How can my students engage in listening to them?

3. Would it ever be appropriate to eat a meal together as a class?

4. What if, as I planned and taught my classes, I imagined my class as a dinner party. The teacher is the host, the content the meal, and my students my dinner guests. How would that change my approach to the class. What if I used that as my guiding metaphor in my syllabus and throughout the school year?

5. How could a unit or my curriculum create space in my students' lives for the "other?"

The following is a list of teacher-generated ideas of ways that this practice could be implemented in the classroom or school culture.