

Not all children are given the same access and opportunity to education, and not all children are expected to learn.
We know why kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences.
But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection. Relationships.


James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.
George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships.
Teaching and learning should bring joy. How powerful would our world be if we had kids who were not afraid to take risks, who were not afraid to think, and who had a champion? Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.


Rita spoke of how a colleague once told her how she was not paid to like the kids, but that she was paid to teach them. To this Pierson responded, “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”

Children need someone not only to look up to, but someone to look up to them—to see what they cannot yet see and to believe in them when no one else does. Children need to learn that they are someone and that they can always be a better someone.

Rita thinks that Stephen Covey had the right idea. He said you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like seeking first to understand, as opposed to being understood. Simple things, like apologizing. You ever thought about that? Tell a kid you're sorry, they're in shock.

I want to teach because children are greatest treasure of the world. I want to be the champion that all children need. If it wasn’t for the good teachers of the world, I wouldn’t be in the place that I am now. I hope to become a representation of hope and belief for children who are not given it.
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Not all children are given the same access and opportunity to education, and not all children are expected to learn.
We know why kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences.
But one of the things that we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importance of human connection. Relationships.


James Comer says that no significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.
George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships.
Teaching and learning should bring joy. How powerful would our world be if we had kids who were not afraid to take risks, who were not afraid to think, and who had a champion? Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.


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