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Dear Difference Maker, We have all encountered distressed individuals who exhibit intense emotional reactions and behaviors. You will see how it’s really all about doing (and thinking) something simple (and different) in the face of chronic emotionally intense, disruptive situations and behaviors. What works with kids also works with people of all ages as well. We are all just little kids in big bodies after all …
A daily short pause for the cause is a time-efficient and effective way to gain back your inner peace. The benefits are greater than you may expect. AND … And while you are at it, check out my 9-Week Safe, All-Inclusive, Community Building Curriculum I implemented that turned every challenging group of students I had, around (55%-65% At-Risk) . This is the curriculum that not only helped each and every single one of my students self-regulate, but to accelerate their learning. (Stanford Achievement standards, averaged 2.5-3 years growth in my classroom.) I understand that this is a BOLD statement. That’s why I’m making it! It’s true. There. Are. No. Lost. Cause. Kids. Stop waiting for funding for support personnel. Make it your business to make your educational experience worth bragging about. This IS how change happens. Reaching out …
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Expect the Best
EXPECT IT. INSIST UPON IT. In our society, we often underestimate human potential because we feel sorry for the young people coming to us from disastrous home situations. Each time we accept a child’s home situation as disabling the child, we are disabling the child as well. One year I had a partially deaf and blind boy, Thomas, in my class. In his previous year, Thomas got to go home two or three times a week. He spent as much time as he could in the special education room. He was often excused from school because his tolerance level was low, and he became disruptive in the classroom. Thomas came into my classroom that fall looking and acting pretty crazy. I told him he couldn’t act crazy anymore, period! I backed it up with expecting the best and telling him so. He stopped acting crazy within a few short weeks and by the end of the year, he didn’t even want to go to special education classes anymore. He was so involved in our classroom projects that he didn’t want to miss out. The children in the classroom treated him as one of them, because I did. Six years later, Thomas graduated from high school with a scholarship to a community college. I almost didn’t recognize his senior picture because he looked wonderfully bright, confident and handsome. Expect the best of all people, regardless of the appearance of any disability. Expecting the best will have a ripple effect in all that goes on in your personal and professional relationships. It is a funny thing about life; |
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