"Brooke Haycock presented Six Degrees of Preparation at a New Teachers Mentoring Consortium in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Following her performance, dialogue groups discussed the struggle students and teachers face every day in classrooms across America. If we ever needed to shake up our educational system, it is now... Brooke Haycock's Six Degrees of Preparation is a great way to get the dialogue going."

-Dr. Kathy Ofstedal, Professor, School of Education, St. Cloud University 

"Brooke's work in Six Degrees of Preparation gives voice to the intense emotional and intellectual challenges faced by novice educators to make sense of their passion to teach within the real world of the first-year teacher. This is a must see for administrators, novice mentors, and teacher preparation university faculty."

--Dr. Pamela Moran, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction, Albemarle, Va. County Public Schools

“Having worn, in my time, virtually every hat up there on that stage, I can say, from personal experience, that everybody needs to see this show---teachers, faculty, administrators, policymakers.  They need to see it because they need to understand, truly understand, what’s really going down.”

- District Administrator

“We could all give names to those characters—many of us probably found ourselves resisting seeing some of ourselves in them.  We all needed to see this.”

-Dean, School of Education

“As hard as it is to hear, this show, to me, it’s inspiring—it reminds me why we work as hard as we do and why, at my age, I’m still doing this.  The truth is, there’s still a lot to do.  We need reminders like this.”

-State Dept. of Education Administrator