The Courage Mosaic

We created the Courage Mosaic at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity for members of our community to share images of their individual examples of courage and offer tribute to the courage of others during those fraught days and months.

We also maintained this Courage blog to share stories and news about courage we witnessed and that defined this time.

We paused the initiative last fall, but we revived the Courage Mosaic for the Celebrating Courage gala on June 24, 2021.

Since the start of the pandemic, Carver's young people and youth around the country displayed inner reserve, resiliency, leadership, service, and citizenship in ways that are inspiring and as well as anticipated. 

To keep from being too narrowly focused on a set of academic skills and disciplines, reinforced through standardized assessments, accountability measures, and other policy levers, we also look to our youth and others for additional measures of performance, growth, overall success — and courage.

Carver’s learner-centered, community-grounded approach demonstrates that when students develop a strong sense of identity and agency in one area, they are able to transfer the strategies they develop to other contexts. This strategy has proven effective even as the pandemic has challenged it.

And all of that calls upon our youth to be courageous, and they are — something we celebrate.