{"id":514,"date":"2020-09-30T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&p=514"},"modified":"2020-09-30T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T01:22:12","slug":"building-community-in-polarized-times","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/building-community-in-polarized-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Community in Polarized Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

All faculty and staff took part\u00a0in a half day Zoom seminar on building community in times of division before school started. David Brubaker, organizational consultant and dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, facilitated.<\/p>\n

The input gave context for how communities, churches, families, and organizations experience division\u00a0when the broader culture is divided, as the United States is in many sectors now.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we head into election season, we wanted to create space for healthy dialogue and practice skills for listening well while remaining true to our own convictions,\u201d explained Paul Leaman, head of school. As always, he noted, \u201cEMS joins school with families and faith communities to encourage students to develop and express their values and convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maria Archer, K-8 principal, presented an updated school-wide policy, \u201cNavigating controversial issues.\u201d The policy says that teachers are responsible to create a culture of trust and safety where basic human rights are honored and where varied perspectives are heard with respect.<\/p>\n

To read more about the seminar and policy, go to easternmennonite.org\/news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All faculty and staff took part\u00a0in a half day Zoom seminar on building community in times of division before school started. David Brubaker, organizational consultant and dean of the school of social sciences and professions at Eastern Mennonite University, facilitated. The input gave context for how communities, churches, families, and organizations experience division\u00a0when the broader…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[27],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-fall-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}