Tear-Inspiring Reason Fourth Grade Teacher Ditched Books And Traditional Lessons

This one here is about so much more than 1,000 origami cranes.
It’s a master class in storytelling.
In teaching.
In compassion.
How one teacher, Kristen Rafferty, led her fourth graders at Carondelet Catholic School to care and hold space for their friend, Owen Guertin, as he faced a massive health crisis.
All I can say is get ready for your eyes to leak.
A lot.
Here’s the master storyteller, Boyd Huppert from KARE in Minneapolis.
What a beautiful story inspired by “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,” the story of Japanese girl with leukemia who sets out to fold a thousand origami cranes.
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