Alumnus Teaching Others to Make a Difference

If you had to describe the Rev. Peter Burch in a word, it would be committed.

The reverend is committed to making history come alive for his American and World history class at the Charles Finney School in Penfield.

This idea first crystallized in his mind when he learned John Dewey’s philosophy of education as a doctoral student of church and educational leadership at Andrews University in Michigan.

“Instead of just learning about history in the dead past, I’d like my students to get involved in what’s going on right now so they can be a blessing and make the world a better place,” Burch said he told Mike VanLeeuwen, Finney school president, when first presenting his idea for Project Compassion.

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