A week ago or so, I was in conversation with a friend about leaving my teaching position. He got right to the point and asked me what I was going to reform next. It stopped me in my thinking tracks and I know I had no intelligent response.
On my walk/run this morning I thought more about that question. First, about my friend who asked the question, Jim Fruchterman...it is important to understand the source. It is true that he is a friend, but he is also a mentor, role-model, and I'm going to work for his organization, Benetech, http://www.benetech.org/, on a project called Bookshare, http://www.bookshare.org/. Our lives primarily intersect in the blindness technology arena...I first met him many years ago after he invented a reading machine for the blind. He has had a profound impact on accessibility for people who are blind and in other areas of social value. He is a "social entrepreneur" amongst many other things.
Second, back to the question...so I should have asked him what he thought I already reformed, but I was too overwhelmed by the question. I guess I could consider my ongoing work in accessible materials for children who are blind/low vision as "reform" work...I still don't have an answer, but I will "live" with that question in the days ahead.
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Some people simply live lives of reform.
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