This week I was ill and was not able to resume my volunteer activities. I did however find an interesting movie that fits into this class. It was called A Smile as big as the moon. It was based on a group of special ed students in the public school system who had aspirations of going to space camp in Huntsville Ala. Their teacher Michael Kersjes was the driving force because he believed that his kids should discover a world outside the classroom. He was successful but not without many obstacles such as funding,  school and community support and Space camp itself. He did not give up and his kids were the first group of special needs students to be accepted in 1989. A local business man donated the $50,000 dollars needed and the rest was awesome. Since then he started a foundation Space is Special, Inc that has been responsible for sending 2,600 special needs kids to space camp since 1990.  If anyone reads this blog you can go to smileasbigasthemoon.com/author and read about this amazing educator. Wouldn't it be great if this could be a possibility for urban learners also.