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I have spent my entire life either at the school house on the way to Schoolhouse talking about what happens in the school house both my parents were Educators my maternal grandparents were educator and for the past 40 years I've done the same thing and so needless to say over those years I've had a chance to look at education arm from a lot of perspective some of those reforms have been good some of them have been not so good and we know why kids drop out we know why kids don't going to see the poverty attendance negative peer influences we know why but one of the things that we never discuss a Wii Charlie discuss is the value and importance of human connection relationships James Comer I said no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding play ships everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult for years I have watched people teach I have looked at the best and I've looked at some of the worst a colleague said to me one time they don't pay me to like the kids they play me The Teacher lesson to catch and learn it I should teach a day should learn a case closed  well I said to her you know kids don't learn people they don't like that's just a bunch of hooey and I said to her will your year is going to be long and arduous dear needless to say it was people think that you can either have it in you to build a relationship are you don't I think Stephen Covey had the right idea he said You Oughta just throw in a few flag seeking first to understand as opposed to being understood simple things like apologizing you ever thought about that what kids are sorry there in shock I taught a lesson once on ratios I'm not real good with math but I was working on it and I got back and looked at that teacher edition I talked the whole lesson room  so I came back to class the next day and I said look guys I need you apologize I talked the whole lesson wrong I'm so sorry that's it that's okay Miss Pearson you were so excited we just let you go I have had classes that were so low so academically deficient that I I wondered how am I going to take this group in 9 months from where they are to where they need to be and it was difficult it was awfully hard  how do I raise the self-esteem of a child in his academic achievement at the same time one year I came up with a bright eye I told all my students you were chosen to be in my class because I am the best teacher and you are the best students they put us all together so we could show everybody else how to do it  one of the students a real  I said really we have to show the what are the classes how to do it so when we walk down the hall people will notice us so you can't make noise you just have to strap  and I gave him a saying play I Am somebody I was somebody when I came out be a better somebody when I leave I'm powerful and I am strong I deserve to education that I get here things to do people to impress and places to go and I said yeah  you say it long enough it starts to be and so I gave a quiz 20 question student missed 18 I put a plus 2 on this paper in a big :-) is this an F I said yes  Poseidon watch you put a :-) I said cuz you got to ride you didn't miss them all  I said it when we review this won't you do better he said yes damn I can do better you see -18 sucks all the life out of here plus two said I am call years I watched my mother take the time at recess to review go on home visits in the afternoon by Combs and brushes and peanut butter and crackers to put in a desk drawer for kids that needed to eat in a washcloth and some soap for the kids didn't smell so good thing it's hard to teach kid to stink  and kids can be cruel and so she kept those things in her desk in years later after she retired I watched some of those same kids come through and say to her you know Miss Walker you made a difference in my life you made it work for me you make me feel like I was somebody when I knew at the bottom I wasn't and I want you to just see what I be coming with my mama. two years ago at 92 that was so many former students at her funeral it brought tears to my eyes not because she was gone but because she left a legacy of relationships that could never disappear  can we stand to have more relationships absolutely will you like all your children of course not can you know your toughest kids all Nether at Cent  Nova you won't like them all and and and the tough one show up for a reason it's the connection is stuff relationship and why you won't lie all the kids they can never ever know it  so teachers become great actors in great actresses and we come to work when we don't you like it and we listening to policy that doesn't make sense and we teach anyway we teach anyway because that's what can you do teaching and learning should bring joy how powerful would our world be if we had kids who who were not afraid to take it's cool but not afraid to think and who had a champion every child deserve the champion an adult will never give up on them who understands the power of 10 and insist that they become the best that they can possibly be is this job tough you bet you all God you betcha but it is not impossible we can do this we're Educators we're born to make a difference thank you so much

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