I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article. I love the two-leg curriculum approach. You are absolutely right: we need to innovate for our students. We have a great opportunity to do so and I am very pleased to see that teachers like you are doing the work we need. Government mandated curriculum that focus on reading and math does not help our children become responsible citizens and civic leaders. The world is going through massive changes and we need students of yours to lead the change, to make the future better. We are not helping to be ready unless they are self-aware, unless they are aware of the social injustices, unless they are ready to change. ~ Yong Zhao, University of Kansas, Melbourne School of Graduate Education, author of Who’s Afraid of the Big Red Dragon: Why China has the Best and Worst Education System in the World, and What Works Might Hurt: Side Effects in Education.

I remember the personal creed project… I remember being challenged by it…and being embarrassed when my actions as a student didn’t match what I’d written about myself in the creed. That was good for me. ~ Matthew LaPlante (former student, AHS c/o1996), Assiociate Professor of Journalism, Utah State University

I won a University-Wide Teaching Excellence Award at IUP for the Composition course centering on the Creed. In a course centered on inquiry into the theme “education and hope,” it made hope concrete, not just a dream, but a conscious evolution of a given story. Thanks, Mr. Creger, for this incomparable pedagogical gift. ~ Dr. Bruce Novak. Truman College, Chicago, 2010 Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2011-14. Co-author, with Jeff Wilhelm, of Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom