Still Waters in a Storm is a one-room schoolhouse, a reading and writing sanctuary for immigrant families in the neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn… and now also in Poughkeepsie, New York.

The structure of our meetings is the same in English, Spanish, Latin and Musical Notation: children and grown-ups study a text together, each writes something inspired by the text, then they take turns reading their writings out loud while everyone listens in a sacred hush.

The one rule is, “Everyone listens to everyone.”

The simple grace of this ritual changes lives for the better.

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