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A miracle in Harlem
Geoff Canada has created a miracle in Harlem, says NYT's David Brooks:
"The results changed my life as a researcher because I am no longer interested in marginal changes," Fryer wrote in a subsequent e-mail. What Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone's founder and president, has done is "the equivalent of curing cancer for these kids. It's amazing. It should be celebrated. But it almost doesn't matter if we stop there. We don't have a way to replicate his cure, and we need one since so many of our kids are dying -- literally and figuratively."
Read that again: "I am no longer interested in marginal changes." That's the transformative power of seeing someone follow their vision and deliver results. Much to the point of the Gel conference last week, we may individually come up with different answers, but it always helps to learn from people who are doing good work and creating authentic, good experience.
BTW, here's the video of Geoff Canada speaking at Gel in 2006.
