[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Learning]], [[Leadership]], [[Connection]] - People: [[Rita Pierson]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnMTHhKdkw --- ## Summary - [[Education is understanding relationships]]. - [[Connections are one of the hallmarks that makes us human]]. - [[Kids don't learn from people they don't like]]. - [[Believe in others so that they can believe in themselves]] - especially if they're feeling like a "nobody". - Remember. [["Nobody" is a feeling]]. [[Support others to help them discover and realize they're authentic potential]]. - "Is this job tough? You betcha. But **it's not impossible**. We can do this. We're Educators. We're **born to make a difference**." ## Notes ### Connection - "One of the things that we never discuss, or we rarely discuss, is the **value and importance of human connection**." - [[No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship]]. - [[Education is understanding relationships]]. - [[Connections are one of the hallmarks that makes us human]]. They signal to us that we are understood and that our contributions have value. - [[Kids don't learn from people they don't like]] - [[Seek first to understand, then to be understood]]. - [[Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. They listen with the intent to reply]]. - "Simple things like apologize. **Tell a kid you're sorry, they're in shock**!" - "How am I going to take this group... **From where they are to where they need to be**?"" - Be excited. Be engaged. Engage through your excitement for excitement is something that should be shared. ### Believing in others - [[I am somebody. I was somebody when I came, I'll be a better somebody when I leave.]] - [[You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you]]. - When receiving a `2/20`, they asked her why they you put a smiley face. "You on the roll. You got 2 right, **you didn't miss them all**!" - Support others through positivity. - [[Minus 18 sucks all the life out of you. Plus 2 says, I ain't all bad.]] - On her mother's death... "She left a **legacy** of **relationships** that could never disappear." - Show someone the somebody they could become to overcome the "nobody" they currently feel. - [["Nobody" is a feeling]]. Not only are you somebody, you are you. Nobody is a feeling you can overcome if you believe in yourself and work hard on becoming the best version of yourself. Sometimes, **it helps if someone else believes in you first**. - [[Believe in others so that they can believe in themselves]] - [[Support others to help them discover and realize they're authentic potential]]. ### It's hard work. Do it anyway. - [[Will you like all your children? Of course not. And you know your toughest kids are never absent.]] - [[While you won't like them all, the key is that they can never know.]] - "We come to work when we don't feel like it, and we're listening to policy that doesn't make sense, and **we teach anyway**." - "Is this job tough? You betcha. But **it's not impossible**. We can do this. We're Educators. We're **born to make a difference**." ## Original ![[Every kid needs a champion-1.jpg]] ![[Every kid needs a champion-2.jpg]] ![[Every kid needs a champion-3.jpg]]