Drawings found behind a door in a classroom

The story behind this little video is a perfect case-study in what ails us at ACS.

In passing by a high school classroom and stopping to greet a substitute teacher, I noticed dozens of pencil-portrait drawings posted on the wall behind the classroom door where nobody in school, even the kids in class, might see them, enjoy them, benefit from them.

So I pulled out my pocket camera and photographed a handful of them. While cropping them in iPhoto, I was inspired by their diversity and by the haunting quality of these drawings not done by "artists" - inspired enough to write a poem.

Then, having just benefited myself from a "sharing of work," I made a film with both the drawings and my poem, posted it to YouTube, embedded it here,  so that maybe a next person might be inspired and pay the whole thing forward.

What ails us is that we treat student work as only assignments that are due for a grade and not as the one-of-a-kind human accomplishments they are - worthy of celebrating, sharing, and enriching our community.

It is so easy to share, such an of-course part of my world. How will I convince my cloistered colleagues to make it an of-course part of their course-work?