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How Education Came to Influence My Fatherhood By Jerome Danner (Gré Motiv) 2018 was quite the year for me. I became a father for the second time. Two months later, I darkened the doors of a public school for the first time, hoping to enlighten young minds. In the beginning, I thought my fatherhood would influence my profession as an educator. After six years in education, I have come to believe that my vocation has had more of an impact on my calling (my state as a father). When You Are New to Teaching When you are new to teaching, it is easy to come in the halls of a public school with high hopes. You may even have visions of grandeur with thoughts of kids floating in and out of your classroom on cloud nine believing that you are the greatest teacher that they have ever had. (Okay, maybe this was only me.) Nevertheless, blind optimism is soon extinguished by a jolt of reality. When one starts to engage with teenagers and pre-teens, you start to realize that they do not enter your classroom with a longing to grow intellectually. Many of them, maybe most of them, will be dismissive of you and your class altogether. The new educator wants to make a difference in these young people’s lives. Yet, the real difference will take place within them. https://lnkd.in/ei4S6Vyh #teacher #educator #father #parenting

The adult mind works a little bit differently than the teen mind. We adults tend to look ahead to the future, plan, and make To-do lists for our To-do lists. The world is less safe and unpredictable in our eyes. This is all true. And it isn’t. To a teen, the world ahead is a blank slate. Too blank for our adult eyes. So we feel compelled to populate the emptiness. We want a few things written on the slate so we feel better that they have some idea as to where they might be heading. So they tell us what we want to hear. I am going to be a doctor. Next year I am taking a well-planned gap year. I just got accepted into university. I am going to start my own business. Some or all of it may be true. The reality is none of it is true as we already know. They will change their paths and careers just as we did. They will get married and divorced just as we did. They will have their ups and downs no matter how much we are there for them. Just as we had in our life. But they will be OK. Note: Here is a Friend Link if you wish to read the full article. https://lnkd.in/gTxngyDx

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The latest Chase Hughes Vlog is ready to view! This week's topic was 'The Childhood Development Triangle'. Dive in below to see how your behavior mapped out who you would become as an adult! https://lnkd.in/eNz9x_TV

How do you help students feel like they belong at school? By giving them a safe space to build connections and share emotional check-ins with peers. Here's how our three middle schools — Barr, Walnut, Westridge — came together to implement "Middle School Advisory Time".  A collaborative, daily effort to help middle school students feel seen, heard, and empowered.  Watch our short documentary on the power of a unified approach to "Bulldog Time", "Cougar Time", & "Wildcat Time". READ & WATCH: https://trst.in/qk56yt -- #WeAreGIPS

practicing human-centred design to improve schools would look something like this: 1. ask students (and parents and teachers!) about their experiences, joys and pain points in the current system 2. get them to dream about what their ideal school would look like 3. do this until we understand the problem this one child has articulated issues clearer than many policymakers can...or are able to. I hope to hear more! not to leave to the next generation to build, but for our generation to act. thanks John Tan for this honest and thought-provoking post.

"Deciding to homeschool my four daughters was formed in a group setting, as I was surrounded by brilliant friends, and resilience and passion were our common denominators. It was the 1980s, where a yet-unknown boom was about to take place, and we were on the front lines." Read the full article here: https://loom.ly/dky6v9g -- Enjoying Intellectual Takeout? Consider supporting our mission: https://lnkd.in/gPChuR9Y

Todd's Top Tip 8-13-24 Top 5 keys to being the best you can be: As taught to my 13-year -old twin sons Ari and Teddy: Who are starting 8th grade tomorrow at the amazing Blue Valley School District in Kansas 1. Why do we fall? To learn to pick ourselves up. 2. It's never how you start but how you finish that matters. 3. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 4. Empathy, compassion and kindness to all 5. A man is not judged by what he thinks, but by what he does, who he is and how he lives. 6. What are we most grateful for? Health, family, friends- and opportunity to be better people today than we were yesterday 7. What did we learn today to be better people tomorrow 8. 10 good things that happened during day 9. High and low for the day 10. See below: Welcome back teachers and students. It will be the best year yet! (Left- my Son Teddy (LBT) Right- my Son Ari (LBA)

Being part of a team means being part of something bigger than oneself, and for that, we are very grateful. Teamwork at MPAC is not only important but also the driving force behind our progress. #teamwork #impactingtheworld #mpac

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