-these quotes:
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
"It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision-making muscles."
-Teaching today at an awesome charter school. The class went around the room to introduce themselves and when they did they had to say their name, their grade, and something they were concerned about. How awesome is that? It made me think about what my concern would be right now. Lots of kids were concerned about racism, classism, homophobia, poverty, etc. I'm most certainly concerned about all of those things too. The one thing that I didn't hear was concern about accessibility to get help for mental illness. I think that's high on my concern list right now. They were so well spoken and asked amazing questions for 7th and 8th graders. I'm excited to get to work with them more.
-Meeting up with Christine for happy hour! It was so good to see her and catch up with her. I hope we do it again very soon. Considering it has been about 10 months since we saw each other last. Not acceptable.
-laughter
-My Every Day 2 class. They were such an awesome group of students and they really have grown by leaps and bounds. All of them come from such incredibly different places and yet they were all able to find a connection within this class. We did some self reflection about how they felt they met their goals and how the class has impact their day to day lives. It was so fascinating. Some people were able to take away the yes and attitude and apply it to situations in their everyday life, some discovered that this is something they would like to pursue via performance wise, and some realized that they were able to silence their inner critic and really actively stay in the moment. I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to be their teacher over the last 8/16 weeks.
-Teaching today at an awesome charter school. The class went around the room to introduce themselves and when they did they had to say their name, their grade, and something they were concerned about. How awesome is that? It made me think about what my concern would be right now. Lots of kids were concerned about racism, classism, homophobia, poverty, etc. I'm most certainly concerned about all of those things too. The one thing that I didn't hear was concern about accessibility to get help for mental illness. I think that's high on my concern list right now. They were so well spoken and asked amazing questions for 7th and 8th graders. I'm excited to get to work with them more.
-Meeting up with Christine for happy hour! It was so good to see her and catch up with her. I hope we do it again very soon. Considering it has been about 10 months since we saw each other last. Not acceptable.
-laughter
-My Every Day 2 class. They were such an awesome group of students and they really have grown by leaps and bounds. All of them come from such incredibly different places and yet they were all able to find a connection within this class. We did some self reflection about how they felt they met their goals and how the class has impact their day to day lives. It was so fascinating. Some people were able to take away the yes and attitude and apply it to situations in their everyday life, some discovered that this is something they would like to pursue via performance wise, and some realized that they were able to silence their inner critic and really actively stay in the moment. I'm so glad I was fortunate enough to be their teacher over the last 8/16 weeks.
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| At The Green Mill for a little post last class celebration. |
-The basics
-lying in my bed after a long day. It feels so much more well deserved.
-as always, my friends
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