13th Annual Chain Reaction Day

The Sharon Academy held its 13th annual Chain Reaction Day on Wednesday, February 2, 2022. We enjoyed a phenomenal day that started with the TSA Middle Schoolers being introduced to the High School by students Eve Huntington ’22 Phoebe Quackenbos ‘ 23, Joey Thibodeau ’24, and Iris Adamoli-Puchalik ’25, along with the amazing Señorita Raquel. 

 

At 9:00 we kicked off programming with the Vermont State Executive Director of Racial Equity Xusana Davis, who led us through an engaging and powerful trivia game (go team 2!) and encouraged us to wonder about what we don’t know about our state and country’s history.

 

Students and staff then dispersed into eleven different workshops led by a dazzling cast:

The closing activity pushed us to take our thoughts, appreciations, and concerns and create some BIG questions for the school to grapple with. We then distributed dot stickers on the questions that we thought “most important.” Some examples of questions with LOTS of dots are: 

  • How do students gain a big enough voice to make a real-world difference?
  • Is TSA doing enough to facilitate hard discussions? 
  • What qualifies someone to talk/teach about race? 
The staff and workshop facilitators were then treated to a scrumptious luncheon provided by Toni Hover, where we were able to connect and reflect on the day. 
 
We look forward to continuing to create space and time for these questions and conversations, and want to express deep gratitude to all who took the risk to engage in this day.