Thirty years ago, an Eagle River teacher helped her students as they rallied around a 10-year-old classmate facing terminal brain cancer. The events of that year are the focus of Bob Katz's book 'Elaine's Circle,' recently released in a second edition.
By Bob Katz. Munn Avenue Press, 2022. 167 pages. $14.99.
Elaine Moore was a soft-spoken teacher who emphasized listening, questioning, storytelling, and the learning process over work sheets, rote learning, and tests. She liked to gather her students in a circle on the floor, where they — and she — were all on the same level and were encouraged to share their thoughts equally. She taught by example respect, compassion and the importance of community. She liked to take her students on field trips, especially into the outdoors to observe nature.
In the course of their involvement with Seamus and his illness, the fourth-graders learned not just about illness, medical interventions and death but about compassion, courage, the joy of living and life’s randomness. They were encouraged to ask questions — some of which were referred back to their families with respect for varying religious or spiritual beliefs.
Elaine Moore retired from teaching in 2002. In 2005, she organized Eagle River’s “One Book, One Community” reading program — with “Elaine’s Circle” the book chosen to discuss. She died in 2007.
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