We need these emotional skills as much as we need content-based knowledge.
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This is an opportunity to learn and engage and really start to get to know students in ways that many educators have never gotten to know their students. And this is where you can take the time out and not feel the pressure from the upcoming benchmark or not feel the pressure from the upcoming testing.
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A community is something that strengthens you…(it) has a certain sense of kindness, of empathy. By being together, working together, (being in community) can face the challenges from the outside world.
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It’s about recognizing that students are more than what you see in front of you in the classroom. The students will want guidance and they still want those connections.
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Create simple solutions. It will be more easy to create and add complexities in later than it will be to take away anything you're [over] creating now.
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[Teachers] have an advantage in having been 3/4 of the school year already in person with your students. You will be able to make the switch to online in a beautiful and seamless way because there is already a shared history and a deep relationship there.
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During that time I had this realization that I was someone who had worked incredibly hard at school. And I thought to myself during this difficult time, “I have all of this knowledge, all of these qualifications and I literally have no idea how to help myself feel better or get better.” I was literally in a rut and I didn't know what to do.
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The thing that I don’t feel we do enough is say ‘thank you’ to our teachers. And because of that, I don’t think they really appreciate how significant they are, and what their worth is. They are gold dust. They are priceless.
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We must understand that in order to impact young people's lives at the ages of 14, 15, 16, you have to invest heavily at the ages of four, five, and six. And I think when we realize that and appreciate that, we will see different outcomes later down the line.
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At the end of the day, these kids need to know more than anything else that you care about them and that you want to see them succeed. And something I think about all the time in coaching is, am I doing that? Am I making sure that these kids know that I care about them? And that's really been one of the reasons that we've been successful at our school is because of whether it's the sports or whether it's the classroom, the kids know that we're passionate about what they're doing.
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Positivity is about feeling like there's meaning to what you're doing and that there's a kind of mystery. When I'm feeling the most positive, and I think when my students are feeling the most positive, is when there's an unknown. There’s a mystery that we're seeking. So there's something drawing us forward.
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It's part of a cultural message to parents that they're somehow always getting it wrong. And that doesn't help anybody. It's just like with students, if they're always feeling criticized they aren't necessarily going to learn better. Shame doesn't motivate people.
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Before, when somebody was anxious you could see it, and you could see why. Today, everyone just retreats on their phone, and they hide their real state of mind.
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In Turkey a teacher is respected like we respect doctors here in the United States. Once people know that you're a teacher, they address you as teacher, respectfully.
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Every child has a talent. They may not be athletic. They may not be musical. It might be an emotional kind of talent. For many, you need to dig deeper. The harder you dig, and the more you find that special talent, the more a child will begin to know that you really, really like and know them.
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Safety is a room in which I can really be my authentic self. When you have that as your basis, I find that they're not really looking at you to make a mistake. They're just watching you, they're eager to learn from you.
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