When we were children, my brothers and I had a favorite storybook called Giants Come in Different Sizes. Teachers, too, come in all possible forms. 

During my graduate school years, my most formative teachers were my fellow students. Through their committed friendship, it helped me see the reality of worlds that I, at that time, had yet to really consider. Now, in these years later, they are formative cruxes of pathways to sustainable development. 

When we closely analyze the attributes to be effective facilitators of community planning and empowerment, they are also strong features of the teachers that bring pedagogy to a transformative level.

The more I am steeped in the work of facilitating people’s planning of the development they want in their lives, the better I am in an educational setting, in a classroom, among students really of every age. In other words, our best facilitators are our most positively impactful teachers.

So on behalf of the High Atlas Foundation’s team, we would like to thank the teachers in our lives who are from all walks of life, who are the keepers of schools, families, organizations, public agencies, and all parts of society. We’d like to thank them for helping us to improve as people and for being there for us at the time they were most needed. 

How fortunate we are for the teachers of all manners they could be, for coming along when they did, and hopefully there will always be new ones on their way.