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From YouTube: CPS Convocation 2023

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City of Chelsea, Chelsea Public Schools

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We're going to try to get started.

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So we can keep the program rolling on time, because we know that you need to go back to your schools and get ready for our kids tomorrow, um where I am so incredibly excited to have to be in person. I was just telling everyone some people said: oh, what is it this is.

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um Yeah, of course, it's our first time because we haven't had a convocation in person since 2019., so I will say, welcome back to our in-person convocation and we're so glad that everybody's here we have a full full house today. So this is extremely exciting, but this is an opportunity for us to come together as a community. We are the Chelsea Public Schools community and it's so amazing to see you um so I without further Ado I'm gonna I want to thank you for for being here.

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I want to thank our distinguished guests, our city council, president Leo Robinson, our city council, our our school committee, chair Kelly, Garcia and our school Committee, Member, Roberto, Jimenez Rivera. So thank you and we are going to go ahead and kick it off. But before we.

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Do ELC, are you in the house.

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Where's, the county school.

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Are you in the house.

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Are you in the house.

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Brown, are you in the house.

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Right, where are you all right right in the ELC Clark Avenue? Are you in the house.

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Chelsea High School are you here.

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Tell us the opportunity Academy.

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And our Chelsea virtual Learning, Academy I, know you're here and you're online, so welcome.

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We have a virtual option for our virtual school so again welcome I, think the ELC and.

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The right here so maybe we should do another shout out ELC.

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I'm a little partial to the Early Learning Center, because I used to be a kindergarten teacher. So.

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With the little people we have a lot of energy. So all right right, you did well we'll see right. Where are you again.

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Well, welcome back we're so excited to.

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Be here, I'm, just gonna turn it over to our city council president Leo Robinson, to welcome you.

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First of all, welcome.

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12 graduate of Chelsea High School in 1968.

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I did put some remarks together, I'd like to share with you on his fine day to welcome everybody back into Chelsea High School good morning. Mom.

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It is a great joy and excitement that I address all of you today. A new school year brings about so much anticipation. The promise I would also be remiss if I did acknowledge that we have all been through over these last few school years.

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High School seniors began High School, virtually our Early Learning elementary and middle school students, resumes periods of growth, not just academically but socially, and we are being challenged to come together to make up those losses and then some it is in this moment that we must remember our wives and come together, find our work friend, someone in the other department of someone across the hall and jump down. You know why to come back to you difficult days, because it will be difficult days.

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Remember the family when you see a student succeed and how much of a throw it is when that student can't wait to share their success with you. There are all sorts of buzzwords and quotes on teamwork.

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I am going to try not to throw any clear cliches at you often encourage all of you to remember these lies and hold them in.

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At this time, when it is easy to double down and be divisive, it is so much more important than ever to try to think possible and see the Solutions in each problem that arises positively. Is it going to guarantee success but beginning with negativity, basically guarantee that nothing ever gets off the ground being part of the team? Is such a beautiful community?

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Chelsea has always been my community I always remember my. Why and my drive to keep going to all of you incredible Educators, no other veterans, my life and all Chelsea stakeholders, I shed the joy in every Chelsea success and work with others to see the opportunities and our challenges. Please join me in continuing with this drive each and every day, and thank you and good luck in beginning this weekend.

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At this time, I'd like to welcome Kelly Garcia school today,.

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Beautiful good morning my name is Kelly Garcia. For those of you who don't know me, I am the proud chairman of the Chelsea school committee. I have been in on the school committee for eight years now, and it has been such an honor to work with every single one of you, but the teacher in me would like to do some q a so please rise. If you have taught here at the Chelsea Public School System for 20 plus years.

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Thank you for your commitment and actually many many of you have seen me in diapers.

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Thank you even miss you, because many of you are actually related. I love, you all so much now, if you have talked or worked in the Chelsea Public Schools for 15 plus years, please write.

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Thank you for your ongoing commitment to our students and to our fans. Now, please rise if you've been here with us for 10 plus years. Thank you.

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Thank you now, please write if you've been here with us for five plus years.

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Now please rise. If this is your first year in Chelsea,.

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Thank you, I, remember my first year and I remember saying to myself: what are we doing and is this for me and I hope that many of you continue to believe in yourselves and rely on those who have stepped before you for so many years in our city we got.

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Back welcome to the family, bienvenience I love you and I can't wait to see all the accomplishments our students will do this year because of every single one of you. Thank you and have a wonderful Christmas.

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Education liaison at the brown middle school and the president.

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Thank you, everybody in the clerks paraprofessionals and Educators at Chelsea, Public Schools as.

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We welcome back.

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Our students into our buildings tomorrow we're.

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Going to begin dozens.

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Of new relationships.

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With kids, caregivers and colleagues and.

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We'll get a chance to build on those from years past.

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In schools brings us into relationships with so.

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Many people, and over the past few years, we've all learned a lot about what it takes to build and sustain a community over time and through trauma across.

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And the city, we will all be working together to help our kids and each other recognize our particular gifts and how to use those gifts to make them more Equitable and just Chelsea and World. Our paraprofessionals will work to support our most vulnerable.

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Our student support staff will connect students and families to the vast web of necessary resources that.

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Are so often placed behind biased barriers.

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Clerks daily Liaisons administrators.

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And custodial staff have been working all summer to make sure that our schools are ready to welcome our.

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Kiddos related.

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Service providers.

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Teachers and coaches will be exploring new instructional materials and figuring out how to use them to meet our individual student needs and our students will be bringing their unique and developing personalities back to our classrooms.

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There will be days we Face new and unique challenges along the way I.

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Have sent sentences to middle school students.

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That I never thought I would honor, but it's only by remembering.

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That we're not alone in this.

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Effort that we have the strength and camaraderie and debate with hundreds of co-workers and thousands of students and.

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That we have a whole City's worth.

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Of families supporting us that.

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The radical and necessary dream.

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Of adjustable world as possible by remembering.

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The community is what is going to get us through progress.

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Report due dates and multiple student crises and March, which I think is scheduled to be eight weeks along this school year. We.

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Will get through it together.

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Is also how we get to celebrate our wins.

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Whether that's a new lesson plan working out or family participation in the community garden or students defining and reaching their own goals, we.

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Get to learn about our students.

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And to start creating the classrooms and communities they deserve together. I.

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Am so looking forward to the world that we are.

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Going to create with our students for our students, good luck and happy school year.

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Good morning, good morning, good morning,.

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Ellen, so um this is our first convocation since 2019.. First in person, this is my first time wow um I realize it introduced myself. My name is Dr Jay and I'm, the district's Equity officer. This is my third year here and I. Am this is amazing, great joy to introduce another brother from the south to the stage Michael Bonner this year? Is our future guest?

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Not too long ago, Michael was honored by another DeGeneres in music, Nightly.

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News with Lester Hall.

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To ask the Christian Foundation now as a full and sixth grade teacher at the wrong clock. Academy in Atlanta Michael continues to challenge the normal perception of classroom not only for his students but for his colleagues due to the increased stress in the education field, he decided to utilize his platform for the common good to combat this issue. Michael started the Michael Brawner Foundation, which is partnered with Lego education, 3M Discovery.

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Education and PowerSchool to.

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Provide experiences that Empower teachers across the world.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

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It is my Plum please pleasure, to introduce.

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Good morning, good morning, good morning how y'all feeling you're.

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Doing good, hopefully, I can tell some of.

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Y'all didn't have your coffee this morning. Some of you hit the snooze button. How are y'all feeling this morning, you okay, there we go.

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Okay, I'm excited to be here with you.

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Am a classroom teacher like Mr, Aaron, Dr Aaron, said I talk.

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On Thursday so.

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My nerves of all over the place I just set up my Google Classroom I, barely finished my siblings last night right so I'm.

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Right here with you for those.

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That want to get back to the classroom, but on today I.

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In this speech, you want to have a blast, because, what's my 11th year of teaching and I, think we're gonna have some fun: okay, I promise. My goal is to make the best Baptist School speaks for.

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You ever so because of that.

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I want to share with you really quickly because I'll pop this hook into my clicker all.

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Right I'll get.

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Some soon so, when I teach at the Warren Clark Academy is a phenomenal school in Atlanta Georgia. The reason why I love it is because at the school everyone every week we have 700 teachers come and watch us teach think about it. You know how it is when somebody comes to your classroom and.

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You don't even know them so.

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700 people coming to our classroom every week and they watch us teach and it's the most intense thing in the world. I am shocked. I am not addicted to Tequila at this point in time of my life, all right, but I love it I love it because it's so easy to get here this morning in this gym and say relationships matter, and you count duh right at.

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The school I actually have to approve everything I'm talking about.

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Is in fourth grade in the sixth grade teacher.

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I want you to do me. A favor, take out your cell phones really quickly, because I want to give you something. I want you to write down all.

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Right, this is technically my.

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Classroom this morning, gyms aren't always the most popular spot. Think.

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About this, imagine.

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Teaching your science lesson in the gym, then this is your screens right, but I want to help you out on how to have.

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A phenomena and set the tone because.

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Some of you are.

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Going through some very.

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Extreme difficult situations in your personal life and you can't even let anybody know imagine being in a room full of people, and you still feel alone right so on today. I want to give you this quote, always the theory and.

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It says this energy cannot.

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Be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred, think about that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transferred. I am not terrified of this 90-foot court. It gives me a little bit of anxiety because I used to play college basketball, so I see.

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Myself running right now, but I'm going to take up all this.

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Space because energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred. So this is what I want you to do for me, okay, I.

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Want to give you exactly.

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40 seconds: that's how much time you have 30 to 40 seconds I want you to see. Can you give out at least three compliments to.

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Someone around you, I'm Gonna, Give, You, examples.

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In it or or or you can turn to the young man and say sir I, like your Polo, it actually looks good. You can lie, but it just got to make me smile, okay, 30 to 40 seconds 30 to 40 seconds. That's what you got 30 seconds.

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All right after.

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All right, everyone.

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I'm so excited to be here with you on today: there's one of these slides on the screen because I'm a visual learner, I'm a middle school teacher. So you know you have to keep.

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Everybody engaged.

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But right now, I name the speech and it's called the perfect time to quit. I like this, somebody like yes, God. This is confirmation. No, it is not. Okay,.

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Yes, Lord, yes, Jesus.

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I, don't want to die this year. I ain't had no kids, I ain't even got married. Okay, let me go all right, so everyone I teach at the one I'm family at the screen. You can see. I already talked to your superintendent and Dr Aaron. When some of you get a chance to come actually at our school, we have two gigantic slides in the lobby of our school. So.

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When you're finished with.

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Professional development we'll slide you down the slide, I'll be at the bottom of the area to keep you open my super stuff on it's an amazing time, but as I'm working there I found out something about teachers number one we're.

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Just as worse as our.

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Kids, okay, we're just as bad as our kids but number two teachers, all of us, one thing for sure: leaders and people in education. We love money.

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And this is the thing you think I'm gonna ask you a question: I want you to have some fun with me on this.

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Morning, dream a little bit: okay,.

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Dream, a Little Bit, Chelsea Public Schools, because from.

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My research I understand y'all.

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Don't get me a lot during.

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Coleman in.

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Africa and.

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I want to give you your respect.

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For that, because one thing, I hate as a human being I can't stand people who criticize teachers, but you won't step in the classroom and help them out.

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You have 20 seconds to answer this question with the first massage in 20 seconds. If you suddenly receive one million dollars tax-free, what are.

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The first two three.

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Things, you spend your money on and I'll bring you back by clapping go forward.

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Appreciate you I appreciate you wrapping up your conversations. I got a brief event two times three times.

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I like to do research even as a human being I want you to say something. That is what you blow your mind and you won't even believe all right, but it's the truth by the time you finish being an educator and working for 30 years and.

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Of your money towards a 401k Did.

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You Know by the time you.

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Retire at 65. Everyone in this gym you're supposed to be a millionaire.

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Nothing watch this ah I'd love to yourself in.

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The traditional education system that.

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Most of us have been.

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Through watch this, we were taught that when you earn money from a job, you put your money where, in.

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The bank account thank you for being honest.

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It's okay to talk to y'all and if you look at your bank account on today, the bank gives you 0.025.

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Here we go, did you know that it's actually called.

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The rational banking that there is a law that the bank must use 90 of your money, so the bank actually makes money off of your money. Nobody in school, no one inside Society ever taught us about the concept of compound interests. They ran against Financial. Girls said hey, you know what let's interview Millionaires and see. What's the most? uh What's professions appear the most ten thousand millionaires? Let's see what happens y'all. We look at this particular screen on today they did the actual survey I'll pop back teachers are at number three.

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Oh I like to teach Russian secrets and watch this project. Okay,.

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How in the world is a teacher going to be a millionaire.

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Watch this the meetings at the beginning of the year.

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Us don't pay attention to the benefit.

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Because we're playing Candy Crush right if.

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You take 200.

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Or 300 and put it.

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Towards your benefit plan for 30 years.

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Straight due to compound interest, it will build to a million dollars. They never taught us Dennis out of school. That's why some of you are shocked right now. You feel discombobulated matter of fact, I have a Graphic for those that are visual. If you look at this particular.

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Image right here, I'm going to explain it.

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You and the green line, the green line represents putting.

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Money into the.

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Stock market or your benefit 401K, the.

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Yellow line is when you pull money.

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Out due to that, people are being escaped so when I press enter, you can see that over time your money will compound and grow faster than what's inside, of your bank account. That is why, currently, it is 903.

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27 seconds trillions of dollars are going to move through the stock market, because people understand that compound interest Works. Nobody.

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Taught us that and the reason why I'm.

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Bringing this to you on today, Educators and leaders is because, in order for us to be effective this year with this new generation that will record you and put you on tick, tock we're going to have to think differently. If you have your cell.

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Have a quote for you, because I'm using this quote for myself this year,.

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The quote that I'm anchoring myself with this year, everyone is.

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This progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything I want you to think about this. One in.

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Years, going into my living year.

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Teaching I've worked at.

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Two schools, but there is one type of teacher I- cannot stand and.

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That one teacher I cannot.

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That is intellectually.

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Feel they think of every single thing and.

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Everything they talk about is to prove their point. They respond before they even listen. It's the worst. Those.

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Change their minds, everybody cannot.

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Change their that can I.

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Change anything tomorrow, okay. Why? Because we're in a different time wearing something called industry 4.0 the world has changed when's. The last time you've seen a Toys R, Us when's.

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The last time you've seen a Western Union.

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Something like Western Union, Google, it okay, the world society. All history teacher will tell you that we've gone through four.

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Industrial revolutions.

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Four different types of changes: the.

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Would stay in the water? How do we use it? The assembly line World War one and World War II. That's how America right now is a superpower. We Import and Export Goods number three, the first computer all.

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Right 1979 Malibu, Gladwell y'all. It was the.

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Size of an actual room, the first computer, no exaggeration, the last one- everyone is.

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The internet of things we live in a time between 223, where yourself.

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On a technology, it's learning you, you.

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Your health app, it will tell you how many times you set your.

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Cell phone last night, and how long you will sleep if.

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You change your partner's location on Maps. They will tell you the most.

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Visited locations, don't blame me if y'all break up all right, I'm sharing this with you on today.

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Because I want you.

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Understand change happens, everyone and.

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That's how we get from this grade book to an end of the virtual reality if you're.

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Still using that Gradebook to the left baby after it we're gonna, have a bonfire and pray for you, okay, stop it: okay, yeah, but.

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Everyone, this is what I want you to understand them today,.

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How does change take place? What causes a catalyst for change? How.

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Do you know that there is a sign that you.

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Know what I must do something different in my life.

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And something different in.

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The classroom, please allow me to explain this to you, because the wealthiest people in the world understand this concept. The wealthiest families in the world understand this concept and.

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Deserve to learn.

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This concept: how do you know when change takes place? Well, we'll go here, everyone. It starts with this. It's called Black, Swan events. What is a Black Swan event? I got you today. It is an event that is unplanned, you cannot claim for it, it happens and it shakes everybody up. It causes a major disruption to the.

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Very normal thing that we are.

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Give you a couple examples.

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Because you probably see, in the background I got, you here are five different examples of a black smart event. Okay, covid-19 was a Black Swan event, all right. How many.

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Of you remember the great financial.

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Crisis 2008, you have any hands on that show: okay, that was a Black Swan event. Doing 2008 I'll, never forget great financial crisis. Everyone banks are basically giving out mortgages to people who cannot afford them. They.

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Sure ain't giving out mortgages today, but.

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The mortgage rate is.

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Happening right now right, but they were giving one this out.

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If you get a mortgage and you get a mortgage and you get a mortgage, everybody had a mortgage and everybody could not pay the bill. Okay. Now, because of this, the entire Market crashed during Black.

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Events, everyone the perfect time to quit during Black Swan events when there's a lot of stress trauma, people are annoyed, divorce is going up, exotic is everywhere. That is a time where everybody is being Innovative where most people are being Innovative, because.

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After 2007 check out all the companies that were created after the global financial crisis, look at that it is a cyclical season that happens all the time who.

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Would have ever.

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Thought in a million years we would get an exchange this car and let them take us anywhere and.

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We're staying at their house.

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It is a cyclical thing.

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The frustration.

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You felt teaching yourself in public schools. Everyone is a internal symptom to let you know that it is time for us to something different, because what we're doing is clearly not working. You're.

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Not the only one we've built inside of Atlanta and stuff as well, so because.

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Of this I'm gonna give you some examples: 2008 that was it I was 18 had division, one basketball.

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It was cool, but.

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Okay, 2020 excuse me Kobe 19., then.

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We have monkey pops hopping all over people's back during the time as well.

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Look at all the companies that came right after Kobe, 19., Black, Swan event, Innovation.

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Swan event, Innovation.

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Black Swan event, Innovation check.

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Out the first time that came up, so you know what I think about what happened to Skype during this time.

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You don't have to Skype, then we're.

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Being stubborn.

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Owned by Microsoft, we don't have to change it. Zoom came out of nowhere and people breaks.

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Off of there shortly.

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After Zoom November.

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2022, this application scared, the entire education system and the world everyone this application system that I want to explain to you today chat GPT, November 2022 last year after that, when they had a new one, it's called mid drain. Now Arts is still going to find this crazy. One.

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Mentored everyone I asked mid journey to take.

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This hair shot and I want you to remake it and I want you to make a Disney light and piss our life I.

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Picked this particular.

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Headshot because my.

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Grandmother loves house.

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She loves that color from what type of suit right so.

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This one make my smile look good.

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I asked this computer generated program to.

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This photo look.

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How they retrieve on this program, if it's the craziest thing in the world, look at those photos only God's name. Is that that's not me. That's great.

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But everyone hear my heart on today and they give you a final conclusion.

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A piece of evidence that we're in.

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Change- and this is the perfect time for you to quit doing.

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The same thing.

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Over and over again anytime, the most valuable company in the world, which is Apple, decides.

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To step into the game and build a product which.

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Is called Apple provision which.

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Is a mixed reality goggles that you put in your face like Oculus.

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When you look through the goggles, you see.

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The real world and what's happening.

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Inside your phone, at the same time, it is tracking their eyes, with 14 different camera sensors, to see what you're looking at as.

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You look at this device Apple.

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Has an addictive system: if you have the iPhone, you have the airpods, you have the airpods, you have the magnitude and you guarantee people want to pay for this. This.

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Comes out, everyone in January.

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2022. she's moving it with her hands. There are no controllers.

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Excuse me, it comes out in January 2024 for 3 500, there's already a wait list now, while all this Innovation is happening in the world and things are changing and the environment is set what's to do something different because we're sick of talking to the same thing in education, you know what we're fussing over in education. Do you believe what we have the unmitigated Gall, the audacity to fuss over an education. We're fuss is over bullets. Awards.

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Y'all once a day, progress is a possible change. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything on today, I'm going to focus on these three quick subtopics of what you can do to help your year be a little bit better. I am not just talking to you. My beautiful family I am talking to myself too, as I start on Thursday and.

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I want to encourage you because I.

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Know that oftentimes as human beings- and you know exactly what I'm talking about you- have people complaining about problems, but you really can't do anything about that problem. Sometimes.

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Like you know, it's always you have in front of you. So let's start with the.

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Students and I like working with siblings, right I.

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Respect elementary teachers y'all the automatically want.

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To have working with kindergarten, I respect, High School teachers, because I.

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Could not teach a kid look at me and my aunt. That's a different level of pressure.

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Right now, okay, but I work inside of a middle school and I Now understand why they call it. Mental School puberty is different. When you see it right there in front of your face, it is different. I can't.

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Some days I get my breakfast I'm.

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Riding to work, I'm excited to teach y'all I. Have my coffee I got a little shot of espresso.

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My suit on and as soon as I get to the school, the.

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Kid is crying like this for no reason and.

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I'm looking at them.

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Like what's wrong with you, why you wanted to be here? Stop it stop it I said Lord.

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It every person you ever seen it now on today, I'm gonna, give.

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I think I want you to focus on everyone. This.

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The magic to make your hair amazing, it's called self-efficacy trust me on this one I am a teacher I'm not going to waste your time. I know you want to get back to the class and organize your stuff. I got you, but this right here will save your year watch this self-efficacy is nothing but a person's confidence to be in that person's area. Here's a good example: we all work in the same school right. What is your name, sir?

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One time so I'm gonna, say: Julia Jackson, all right, Mr, Jackson right so hey my oh yeah.

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You that, right now, all.

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Right so if Junior and I were working at the same school with everybody and I had a kid in my classroom, the kid may not listen to me. They may blow their eyes. They may sing in their middle finger. They made me throw a chair that same kid can go to judah's classroom in the same school building under the same Administration. Under the same, we are in the t-shirts and that same kid can act different and just natural. Why is that? They have confidence in his classroom and not in my classroom.

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They feel comfortable in love in Mr judah's classroom, but they don't feel comfortable enough inside of my classroom, which is why they exude disrespect, because behaviors are nothing but symptoms. I had to be humbled up to recognize that I.

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Found this out firsthand I was teaching second grade I.

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Thought they were going to give me an easy classroom because I went to the Elvis for the first time. I was excited. Normally they give me a classroom because I can handle them. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

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I was living, I was.

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Infuriated and I was upset.

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Person in this gym knows that four extra alarmers lost 69.70.

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S, that's right.

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Who that you know I was excited, Dean was the third.

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Grade and all of a sudden, I'm gonna say great I'm teaching and I hear this loud commercial in the hallway right. So what I do is y'all I. Do what every teacher do I get a lot of promotion. I! Stick my head out in the hallway I'll! Be your business! Don't even worry about it in case they hit you I got what's happening right. Dog train has taken his shirt off he's going through the hallway in third grade, beating his chest talking about I'm a man he was living just like this.

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It was just like this. That date was just like.

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Co-Workers my brothers and sisters.

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Because it's crazy to me how we tell our kids to be a family and we don't need to be a family with American people that we work with it's crazy right here.

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And kick them out of school for not being a community inside of our staff meetings. Let me do the same thing as our kids.

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Shut up boy, you don't worry about that right! I,.

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Never modeled this for you as an African-American male.

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You've seen Mr Martin come to school, with dignity and.

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Respect to the best of my ability, son pick your head up and go.

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You want me to go to your mama's house and disrespect her do.

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You want me to come to your mama house and take my shirt off and be my chest in front of her face and.

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Say that I'm a.

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Man and in my mind, I was like she may like it. That's what I said.

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Marie's idea she responded, she was fine, she was a beautiful parent. She was honestly depending.

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My entire life crazy.

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It's the best speech ever all right, all of a sudden straight fixed it and.

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You all know those that saw Pops.

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In your schools, you got those like the gospel coming to you. Well, how did you solve them.

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Then they can do a microaggressions. How did you get that child to look that child wanted Mr? How.

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Do you get that child to change.

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Is it because you stand on top of tables and you dance sometimes y'all I'm, six foot, four I can break my next thing. On top of.

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The table, that's not that's, not the magic Mr Bonner.

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It must be because you play music inside of your classroom. My musical taste is a little bit off. You make a DMX Migos Instinct Backstreet Boys. You.

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Never know that's not the case right. Mr Barnett was because.

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Trading is a father figure in his life. The Traders want to look on each other, someone's strong. It looks great and he's doing their job. Well. Y'all Trey had a father in his house. He had a great problem in his house. I wasn't trying to be Trey's. Father I was trying to betrayed stepfather, it's a completely different for him.

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How do I solve that problem? I'm gonna say how I saw that problem. I, take a philosophy with me everywhere.

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I go in life and I want you to understand them today in order to make magic happen to.

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These 2023 kids, that's coming through our schools. You need to.

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Embrace this and I believe it's.

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A smoke that says you can't demand a withdrawal from someone you have never invested in think about it.

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Please there were two police officers that were helping people across the street this morning, when I came from the hotel I would have to them and thank them in their face. I appreciate you, so if I.

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Can pull it over, they could. Let me go right.

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It's all about Investors, but you know what happens.

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In the education.

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An ATM they.

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Haven't put any money into the ATM when they savings account, they go to the ATM to take money out of their savings, account.

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And they're complaining that there's no money inside of their account, this ATM is stupid. It's in the wrong location. This doesn't.

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Make any sense it's not even working the technology is.

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Old, it's not even plugged. In correctly it's not even connected to Wi-Fi what it's on you! So listen! This year, I found out firsthand This Crew my class flashing out I'm.

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Talking in person on.

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If you need research for those teachers that are extremely anal and stubborn research says that Apple will be 19, anxiety and depression, actually increased and celebration of minority show you. What does that mean when America catches a cold everybody certain communities catch the flu in a moment, lack of resources all right, so.

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Because of this, you have to figure out.

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How you're attacking this year we're.

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Blocking these here's some good examples that I'm doing.

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In my class, maybe you can go inside your class I see some of you taking notes.

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Taking photos do whatever.

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Make sure they can help you out all right, the first one we know about being in touch with that and we get that one. But the second one I like is priorities. There's a co-worker at my school by the name of Mr Daniel Thompson he's a science teacher, Mr Thompson is amazing and what happens.

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In his classroom, when you score good, you have priorities seated at the front yeah like a little pillow. In this thing you got.

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A little thermal Comfort.

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He has a little baggage, he has a portable charger.

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For your iPad kids.

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Love priority receiving this class when it's time to go into his classroom. They walk in like coming to America and royalty to their seats.

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Okay, I, like that all right I asked my sixth grade students. What would they like? Let.

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Why y'all? We are the only business that does not ask our clientele students. How do you enjoy the environment, then we.

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Wonder why they hate school and.

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They have no input on the decision making.

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If you examine this screen as.

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For much they're, just really asking for time and.

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Why do I want our kids to compete for priorities? Seeing everyone hear.

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Me this is capitalism in our society. You must fight to be number one. You have to compete when we were in school. I. Remember may this weekend in North Carolina, where.

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You had to learn how to type faster on road keys.

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You were compete against other human beings.

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Kids are not going to compete; it just get human.

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Beings, everyone, their.

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Competing against artificial intelligence, so we have to get them to compete. Okay, so that's the next really quick. The wall of love. I like this one every week.

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In my class I'm gonna use this application called packlet I'm gonna.

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Have a kid come sit right here in front of the classroom screen, the kids will log into padlet I want to make sure kids feel loved in my class, so for five minutes more great I want to play some good.

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Music and all the kids in the class have the right.

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Compliments about the particular team.

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Right it'll look just like this popping up on the serene.

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I guarantee that he will want to come back to my classroom next year. I mean next Monday when the weekend's on all right. So to this last, one I believe all right. The rent, instructional steroids I believe this one attention spans have changed everyone in 2015, our average attention span in the second column, was 8.5 seconds.

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Goldfish has a long roads to.

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Just fans and adults right now, statistically proven okay.

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Have you ever seen the key in.

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This year on, Tick Tock and how fast they go to the videos and you're expecting to sit and listen to your direct instruction for.

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20 minutes straight about the building of the cell and.

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The War of 1812 and the American Revolutionary.

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War, it's not happening y'all, so.

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I want to help you out I'm.

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A sixth grade, reading teacher, apparently kids hate reading right I've got our kids, don't hate reading they hate what we give them. Some reason I found it there's a difference so.

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For a statistically proven to be effective for kids having all your kids read out about the same time, there's no research to support them so.

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Because of this.

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Everyone what I decided.

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To do was with my kids and I'm reading out loud whenever you come to my classroom. I had this big giant chair and you want to come to my classroom. I see sixth.

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Drink more time.

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With me, just like this, as I read, remember.

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Are they doing they're not paying attention to you as you're reading? They.

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Want their iPads they're.

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Distracted right now, no they're, not everyone, while I'm reading, they are actually creating and designing they're building and writing different types of notes about what I'm reading, how.

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Are they doing that.

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I get the one simple instruction: everybody when Mr bottle reads out loud to you: I: don't care if it's a picture book, a graphic novel or a novel or informational text. What I want you to do? You need two pictures so important words in three key events: I.

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Believe in this, why do I say three key events? We live in a society y'all when we were in school. If you look at social media right now, people say.

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Their opinions with no facts to prove it they're just talking and.

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To have our kids to present what you believe with information to support it and I'd like you now, because, what's different for everybody, it's.

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One of those different kids different.

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To my hand, okay, so to the next one right, a different one, same concept: it just looks different still great okay. Now this next one I want to give you a warning, because I messed up last year, all right this is for the field trip. I know all the great teachers here have dealt with this I was teaching my career at the beginning of August and I set my expectations at the.

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Beginning of our school.

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The rule is the teachers talking you.

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Just tough for them to be quiet for longer than three seconds right, so.

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While I'm teaching.

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The boys kept laughing so put.

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Them on that Snicker in there, what is no money.

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I don't know my little gonna smell good today, they're gonna stop cutting out. Thank you.

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And guess what I didn't stop it? So you know by November and December that behavior was running the upper wall and you know what I did as a teacher terrible decision I saw a single playing rocking chicken that.

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Don't do that anybody.

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Else live show you were just down there at JT in the classroom. You didn't do that to me, so why in the world are.

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Why are you doing that to me inside of my class, this isn't right. You're supposed to respect me as the teacher and y'all I found out that.

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A problem: how.

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Did I know, I was a.

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Problem there's a quote: I found by Tony Gaskins and check it out. It's amazing. He says people train people how to treat you by what you allow stop and reinforce.

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So what was happening is I was complaining about a behavior that I didn't stop. That I was actually allowing. You know.

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Why some of your friends are in a toxic relationship where.

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Their person verbally abuses him because they allow it this year. What will you allow to happen inside your classroom and not your.

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Teachers add me.

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To at my previous School, the kid would take a chair and try to do WWE with a teacher right, that's not normal! What will you allow for when you stop? Okay, let's go to the next point, because I.

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Think this is good. We talk about social.

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Emotional learning I am choosing to quit, teaching my kids the same way, but this next one I don't want to talk about the kids I. Don't talk about the actual Staffing, because we.

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This room- this is amazing, right here this beautiful day this morning. We know that sometimes the problem in education isn't the kids in the school building. Sometimes it's the adults inside of the school building all right. Well, you know. Sometimes we can trigger our students, but the reality is sometimes we have co-workers that Sugar out students and we got to put the fire out before 8 15 in the morning. That's why.

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I, like working at.

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My school, this school is absolutely amazing. I have incredible co-workers I, like everything, parties and stuff. All the time we have this house. We.

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Have four house systems at my house: it's called altruism, it's the house of givers I, like doing it. Everyone I.

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Enjoy being there, but what I have found out as teachers and even working at the school right, Andy Matt says it's easy to train teachers to professional development, it's harder to teach teachers how to be a better human being at.

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My previous School elderly, generous.

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Gave us a hundred.

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Thousand dollars five new.

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Ipads and sponsorship with draping headphones, we have people from all over the world donating to our school and it didn't change. One thing: why is the people in the building did not change at all, so.

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I am emotionally intelligent because I study psychology before Elementary education, I know in this room. There are four different types of personalities sitting in these bleachers right now and we're going to see, can you see yourself, or can you see the person you work with? If you knew look at me and blink twice, if you want to keep on pushing okay all right, let's start with this person, because I I.

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Like this person, I'm sure you know this person, because they're probably inside this gym.

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The first number one is the believer: everybody loves the believer, they're positive, the.

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They say the school name, they're standing up like Oprah.

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And behaviorally they like coming to school they're, not always perfect everyone, but this morning they.

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Put it together, they.

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Said, let's go everybody start up a new year, let's make it happen, the believer.

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Everyone is not kicking kids out of their classroom at eight o'clock in the morning to their co-worker for them to deal with I like the believer, because everybody's a mission driven, that's the teacher in your school everybody they're, so good that you walk past their classroom and you're.

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Still in their lesson,.

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So you can use the next day inside of your class. That's what you're.

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It's not being a Believer they're, trying to motivate.

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Here's true watch this raise your hand if you are a Believer or let's go just like raise your hand if you've ever received teacher of the year or admin of the year. Do we have anybody here in the audience teachers ears, anything like that show of hands show of hands. There's nobody all.

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Right we got one work where, where.

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Because in education, when you do good, you have haters, how did she get to the gym? I have my questions posted beside the board or my observation? They didn't even see it shut up now: listen to trash cut out, it's tough, being a Believer. It's difficult, you're, trying to motivate.

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Everybody else.

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When you're, surrounded by the topic, behavior and energy Aida's trying your best, but that's just one personality- that's inside of this room right now we have three more I've, been all three, the next one, all four seasons. The next one is the twins they are literally in between. They.

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Did not know that when.

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It comes to the actual back to school meeting today or they want to submit their uh the letter resignation this morning. They don't know they.

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Don't know if they want to.

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God and read it with the kids or hit the kid with the chair. They.

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Won't sit down and actually sit down and read like they are.

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Literally in between and you have to watch the swingers- oh my gosh- they were in this gym right now. The twinners are sneaky everyone because they have something called a wall of Silence. They.

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Will sit right there and smile at you like everything's,.

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Fine, it's great it's amazing, but.

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Inside they don't feel that way. The.

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Superintendent.

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Can get up this year, hey.

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Everyone in the past five years, we've been through a lot here: children, okay,.

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We understand the.

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Concept of our families, how, during.

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Covet you have intergenerational families.

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Staying together, so not just one family was impacted.

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Impacted we understand the stress that you have dealing with the behaviors the lack of resources, but you know what this year, 2023 2024 we're going to make magic happen in this room, we're going to be a family collectively together.

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And we can do.

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This, while the superintendent is pouring her heart out here, the Twitter said: they're smiling, yes, stranger and while the superintendent.

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Between it goes.

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Right to the group chat and say that's the dumbest thing I've heard in my entire life together. What is this I'm about to quit today?.

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There's no, where the park is y'all want to have us in this gym, where it's hot I can't move. That's the trailer can I go further.

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I can't get out of.

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Their head, everybody between us, are passive, aggressive winners.

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Talk about everybody.

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Else's problems in the school, but would never take the problem to the person they have a problem with winners.

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Actually, don't.

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Operate by themselves, they operate in packs. They.

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Sit there and laugh like little hyenas in this afternoon. You.

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Gotta watch out for this wieners. They are sneaky people, they are the most influential in the school building because they operate together, but they're moving the wrong way. You got to watch the swingers I have a video of a cleaner, seeing it doesn't have it Fox News doesn't have it even GNC, see how I differentiated my music channels right there right. They.

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Making this video on the Twitter- this is a video in between them right here.

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Seven times this morning to try to get up, okay, they're.

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Trying their best but.

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Let me say this for today: there's another teacher: I cannot stand and that's the teacher that brags that their kids are all on grade level baby. They came in that way. You're supposed to be a great level. Did they grow? That's the real question right, but the Bible says difficult in this room. Let's look.

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At everything this year, y'all, let.

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Me tell you what! Because that's been real in the gym.

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We all are leaders.

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In education, different roles, we're.

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Driving the bus secretary.

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uh Cat versus on the cafeteria.

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Custodial staff.

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Teachers, teachers AIDS, but let's be very clear with something today. All of us this year are tasked to help educate kids, but some of.

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Us individual are.

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Going to have to carry a heavier mode than others this year, and it is not easy. It.

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Will burn people out? That's why it's so easy to be a Survivor, but our mistakes about us they're sitting in the staff meeting and Jesus. They are tired, but at least they're trying they're sitting on the outside, smiling.

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But in their head the.

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Survivors looking just like this, every one everybody's on the virus, everything is bad they're about to quit. Right now right, but on today, I told you: energy cannot be created or destroyed into a living transferred, okay, virtual school.

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You got you got that Global carpet so.

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With that I want you to understand something, this next teacher based on.

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Operating this basketball court, you can tell by my energy.

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That I am a good person.

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The best way I possibly can about nothing, I love, God, I love, my family, to the very depth of my soul. Even when any social media platform- that's all I talk about, is my family, my students, but this next teacher they give them my first and last.

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Third, this next teacher totally irks me to get on my Everlasting nerve when they come into the room they suck the energy out of the room, because their whole entire energy is just bad, and what's the name of that person, everyone, the person that some of you may know or may work- or it may be you that person, the fundamentalists, oh yeah, they are negative towards and everything.

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This is how you know you have a fundamentalist on your team. They have a problem for every solution.

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Do you mean Mr Bonnet superintendent gives up this year because your dedication.

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To Chelsea Public Schools, we are so proud of you. We love how you are we're.

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To associate social learning with our kids, he appreciates you for differentiating.

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Your lessons in engaging with the families and.

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We encourage you to keep being audacious in your ability to encourage our kids to be great, so.

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This year, we're.

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To give you ten thousand knowledge as a signing bonus for coming back to Chelsea, Public, Schools and.

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Happy the two of them in the group chat or where they get the money from who do they fired.

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And the fundamentalist is sitting there saying what.

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Is it really ten thousand dollars because.

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Once you take out taxes, it's only six thousand dollars, which is not really. You didn't even give a dollar towards jean day shut up in this gym right now there are four different types of people. Four different types of personalities I have worked in another crazy environments. To let you know that y'all you're gonna have to figure out who are you going to be collectively together? So right now, with 30 seconds of the person beside you very simple, you.

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Person? Where you're, at which.

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Personality are you most likely identifying with right now, okay, I'm gonna, give you 30 seconds. You need to be the believer between a Survivor fundamentals, which one are you this one.

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All right, four, three two.

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And one thank you so much. Thank you so much.

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Oh yeah, two times: okay, there we go all.

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I want you guys that way up for you, okay, I got you all right now for the record. You can be all four of these teachers in one year one month today, you can beat them today right, but I want you to understand that you will not make magic happen in your schools if you do not choose how to collectively work together. This year we were not created to be independent as human beings. We were created to be interdependent. At my school it is fascinating. Every teacher has their own theme classes.

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My class is called a Vortex of innovation. I have no other life darks in my classroom, where you hear the lights out, the entire classroom glows in the dark. When you come to the school, we have dragons rotating in the ceilings on an 8K screen, and people are Marvel they're Amazed by our school, but we have tools in our school climate.

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Culture is everything the first rule is you must uplift all your co-workers if you want to work there, but the second rule is every year they say they look us all directly in the eye and they say the second rule to work at our school is that you must keep your co-workers name out of your mouth yeah.

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Everybody wants to be great for this time to do what great people do everybody wants to be in shape until it's time to do what people and shape do everybody wants to get their body tuned up until you have to go on a diet, everybody.

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Wants to have their body.

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Is safe for Instagram in the summertime until it's time to go to the.

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Gym four times out of the week, you have to sweat it.

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Off this year, you can make magic happen, so.

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For all my Believers in.

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The room who love kids, let.

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Here's some suggestions.

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Really really quick Believers, you cannot be 100 100 of the time. It is impossible, stop killing yourself trying to stay inside of the classroom. If you need a moment to breathe, that's just the reality, because your kids are only as good as.

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Are and you keep coming to the classroom on 20 and expect proficiency, it's not going to happen. People so be around people who aren't Believers the.

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People I hang with they're, not even messy I, don't want to live a messy life. Believers don't even have time.

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Don't even have time.

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For gossip, When, My Friends start.

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Talking well when Associates start talking about people, you know what I do.

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Oh for real: that's what happened in the relationship? Okay, let's pray for him. You gotta put your hands on this. One drop in.

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Hey, you know what happens they're confused, they don't know whether to walk away will play for real.

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I want you to surround yourself with people going to get you to the next level. We aborted this teacher put Chevron lesson. Plano was we literally do build leaders so.

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Who do you identify with if I stand in your conversation? Is it messy.

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Or is it grow twiners.

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Addicted to gospel, I just want you to think about it, study great people, here's a good example all right. Here's a good example I.

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Like this person.

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Right here, all right, I like this versus LeBron, James I, like LeBron and for context. Let me help you out. Okay, let.

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Me help you out. Jt is JT.

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And Maurice right, Perfect, all right, so the two brothers in the back. Let.

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Give you context I'm six for 192.. He is 16.

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He's about LeBron James height, if you see somebody that man coming.

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Out of court get out of the way.

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Believers focus on results and not the chat, Believers focus on results, not the chatter I have friends that talk. Yes, I'm telling you have fears that say: LeBron James is trash. You can't even beat your sixth grade student in basketball and PE you're calling lifetime friends shut up.

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Will you want to be great everybody? It comes with the territory. Don't you think this.

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Is going to be an amazing teacher to have all the kids engaged and think nobody will say.

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Nothing about you.

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James playing.

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Against the Memphis Grizzlies Dylan Grosso solving trades he's old, he needs to score 40 points to be able to win. That's the only way, I respect him, I thought LeBron's, gonna say something some of the greatest players we've ever seen. Lebron didn't say anything, you know what I know it's about Believers.

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Only respond with results because the Lakers beat the breaks off the Memphis.

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I, like it this year, everyone I'll tell you what's going to happen, we want to leave this gym and those are.

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Dedicated to me in great teachers.

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Will do while those doors make magic happen.

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There are some people in this gym that are dedicated on.

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Being negative and operating.

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Charm and they're, going to make toxic behaviors happen in their class show, but.

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That choose to be great I want you to ignore it when they're talking about how you're playing music in class and how you're high five with your co-workers and how you're just trying to be a great teammate and then start to giving your nerves and you're annoyed, because you're just trying to do your job. Remember this! For me, please, okay, whoever is trying to bring you down, is already beneath you.

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One because you.

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Don't really see Kevin Durant talking trash about LeBron, James.

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He's too busy trying to win, you don't see Stephen Curry when he has to get down and what LeBron James and the shoes he wore. It was happening between him and Savannah and his son, because they're trying to win but levers are focused on winning. Okay, now.

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For the second time, I'm gonna get through this really quick, though.

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Right survivors: do me a favor.

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Get you a system? How will you take.

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Year, I have faith and I go to therapy every Monday at four o'clock. I do.

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Thank you take on bigger tasks, everybody you need to have a sister that takes care of yourself. I have been in seven states. In probably past nine days, I've been working because I'm providing scholarships for my kids I.

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Am absolutely exhausted.

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I almost had a Survivor, so you know what my system is when you go to therapy I want to pray. I want to talk to my friends, I'm.

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Gonna go home this Saturday with a blanket with.

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Netflix and some some.

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Adult juices, there's kids.

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Over there and.

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Last night, with the standards, okay, kids often ask me that was a.

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Kid in my class name.

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Quan was brilliant because Juan.

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You out for yourself and he'll say well, it's the amount of. Why are we learning this and.

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I would look.

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At him, like boy.

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Who in the world who do you think you're talking to right so.

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With this I want to give you the answer to this, why are kids.

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Coming to school, with everybody they're coming to school, to learn information that will sharpen your skills, so you can bring extraordinary values to the world they're.

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Coming to your math science, trigonometry physical science, whatever it.

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Is to sharpen their skills to be effective in the world. This is best of the best win, so.

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How can you convince them to sharpen their skills.

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That's the reality of the.

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Gets paid the most money, the best NBA player gets paid the most money, the best teacher gets teacher of the year with an award takes a year off from school. It goes around against speeches that they're paid for that's the reality of it, but.

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We went to a system where everybody gets.

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The participation and everybody gets a high five.

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And then we see situations where a soccer player gets offered, 776 million dollars for.

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One year we're amazed I want you.

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To think outside of that piece.

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All right so to wrap your speech up. One thing: you got no man's greatest thing: I'll send these slides to you, okay, because I want to make sure you get it. We talked.

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About the perfect time to quit, I'm quitting checking my stickers the same.

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Quoting my sentence and saying, if you need proof you can ask.

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Any teacher in our school or when you come to business school, you.

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Can ask any kid: I am.

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Their top three favorite teacher hand down babies, hands down with.

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On my nerves, hey how you doing you still ain't gonna, speak how you gonna see you later. We keep going.

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Because I want.

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And with the standards I want to teach my kids differently, I wish I could go more into it, but we don't have time, but on.

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Need you to hear me Chelsea, Public Schools, because from my research you have dealt with a lot these past five years. A lot of teachers can't do what you do inside of their classroom and.

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They just thinking on my nerves when people say well. What is your, why.

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And I found out, you actually need it your. Why is important for when real opposition comes where real storms happen. If.

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You look at some other subscribers.

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Miami Dubai as tall as the skyscraper is That's.

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How deep, the foundation is inside of the ground as tall as they are That's How deep. The foundation is so when storms happen. If you notice skyscrapers, aren't just tipping over or breaking in the Middle Point, they may slay a little bit this year there will be storms I'm a classic teacher. Talking to you just like this. We there will be problems this year, but how deep will your? Why be so sustain.

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Yourself- and you must find it this year or you will.

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You have beginner teachers in here. Give us.

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In this role and hold on to them, so you can build your foundation because everyone I have my Foundation. The school.

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Before the, where I'm talking candidates from this.

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Is what it looked like if.

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You go to YouTube and look at other videos. The.

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School was surrounded by.

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Top speed what other places you would have sent your kidney across the street. They had a graveyard in my six years of teaching at the school I have 14 different principles in my six years of teaching at this one school I know what this function looks like I know what it feels like to quit. I.

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Know what it feels like to be ignored by the people you're working with and y'all I was done. I.

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Said this is what the educational life and Target commercials at the beginning of the year. You.

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See the kids jumping up down.

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The hallway, with the book bag, it looks nothing like that at all and I told my dad I'm gonna quit my father and mother's, been married for 40 years and I went to my dad he's a strong black man. I said: Dad! Guess what I'm sorry Dad I'm gonna quit I'm done with this I. Don't want to do this anymore. You say you know what son.

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Before you go in you better swing as hard as you can you better swing as hard as you can so at least.

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When you walk away from your job and leave those kids behind, you can.

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At least say: I gave you my all see all that's what I did I went to Walmart and I got the big time, Halloween lights,.

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After the sale- and maybe it's a rotate in my classroom in the morning when the kids came in I had to Lo-Fi hip hop music playing with the second greatest came in I broke, the law I have a little 60s and put it behind the bookshelf, so my classes smell good right. Second,.

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Are walking in like this smells.

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Good I'm, like I'm, not I,.

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Know I started challenging my kids I started breaking outside the norm, because I wanted to give him my all before I read the profession doesn't make sense. I'll make you a music video, okay, I'll.

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Make you a music video.

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With a Samsung, Galaxy, S7 and I had to this.

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That they made.

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But you're, looking at with the same, is my wife. What.

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You're, looking at on the screen is.

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Why I've spent.

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Went to 29 different cities this summer to make sure that this crew that allow it to be on the other show will have scholarships and funds and Equity when they actually graduate from high school you're.

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Looking at my watch, that's why.

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I can stand in the gym full.

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Of strangers with people I do not know on all 10, toes, not afraid to say the truth, with diversity, representation, literacy or technology, not afraid of people with nasty body language, because my, why is bigger than the storm that I'm in the inside of them? Does that make sense.

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I hope that makes sense.

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Find your why you will lead it and make sure it is deep, but.

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I had to go to Poplar, Bluff, Missouri and.

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They were forming the cake. The KKK was forming a rally down the street to stop the diversity and the equity program for coming to the county, while.

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I was doing my speech. I still stayed.

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There and gave the speech with all power that I could now.

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The Assassin's not good, but I still did. What will your? Why be that's, why I refuse to let negativity and pains and gospel Institute? We.

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Got work we got to do because every great teacher can really unlock.

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Something inside of a kid, after.

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This show y'all. This is the video that led.

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To the internet, home NBC, Nightly, News 3 A.M do a whole classroom makeovers with Home.

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Depot and all that great stuff that God so blessed me with and you know what happened that.

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Stuff led me to meet my girlfriend hell. Let me grow up with a beautiful self right. I loved it, but when I got back to school, I started changing before I.

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Was on the grill y'all a real moment now so y'all went back to school and got it reading I started wearing little suits.

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And stuff in 2017. I'm like let's do this right, they gave us over a hundred thousand dollars to watch school that the county could not use if.

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You go to Google and type in the Ellen DeGeneres South Korea GoFundMe. You will see.

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There's almost 95 000 still inside of the account.

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I asked the teacher at school: let's.

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Four thousand dollars and get some uniforms for the kids: let's get some toothpaste, let's get some lotion because they need things I'm sure you've seen kids come to school. That.

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Look like they had themselves ready for school. So let's fix that. Let's get a shed.

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Put it back in the recess the playground and we can put the supplies in there and lock it up, and every woman I went to the staff meeting and asked that four thousand dollars with Katie Richardson. They all voted. No, when I moved it down to two thousand dollars, they still said no, and it was at that point in my life and inside.

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Of my educational career.

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I chose to quit not my job. I chose to quit being moved by the philosophies, the ideas and the negative people that are in education, holding up positions, but.

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You're not trying to make a.

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Change happen inside of your school you're.

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Just taking space.

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I went and got back to work, I.

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Just wanted to work my behind on.

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Summer I've been doing for five years and the reality.

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The accounts that their social media posts, but all that stuff everybody was worth out of a moment of quitting.

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So on today was.

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The perfect time to quit I have just one question for you: what will you choose to quit today? Thank you. What will you choose to quit today? I am going into classroom on Thursday I know some of you are going tomorrow. What will you choose to quit? I know for me, I'm going to quit. Instead of neglecting myself are.

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You gonna quit stop taking care of yourself. I would actually take care of yourself this year. Are you gonna quit.

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Hanging around the people that are absolutely native because.

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They're miserable in their own personal life, so they want to spend this week to everybody else. When you quit teaching the.

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This little box, and that should step out of it. What will you quit today.

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And when you choose to quit, hear me on today: please expect opposition everybody. It.

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You expand your land.

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You have to automatically assume that the bigger your land gets, the more you own, the more snakes that may be on that land. Think.

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Of our education system think about.

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How many prisons are actually being.

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Our kids can't effectively read That's the teachers I'm talking to so.

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When we leaving.

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Today, in the next one minute- and we get ready to have a blast at school year- and you go back to your classroom- to mix everything up and change things and get.

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Inside your group chat and you start being positive, and it's like calling you the toxic positive one. That's always happy when everybody comes in when you start actually going.

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To the staff at any one.

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And high-fiving people.

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They come in they're telling you to turn your music down when you're talking challenging ideas for.

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The kids that are.

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Problematic for kids, but.

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Just standing up and people have an issue with it and they start talking about you. Picking at you actually criticize you this.

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To remember everyone.

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Have fun this year enjoy yourself make magic happen and I'll see you next time. Thank you.

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Er and saying we had to because we get convocation and so I said: Dr, Jacob, okay and so Dr Jade was on a mission and he he he's here so I can't think.

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Here but I'm going to have Dr Jennings, say a few things and.

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Thank you Dr beta um quickly, so we kind of surprised when we have Mr Bronner books here and we can go kids. So there's a smiley face. Looking Assurance on.

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The attack of their shirts there's.

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A smiley face and.

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For those of you that have a.

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Smiley face on the tag of your shirts. You at the end will come back over by Mr Brown herself, so for those who decide.

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Twitter Facebook, you know, I'm deliber attendant, loves photos.

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So, at the end of the conversation please do not leave. We want to take one giant photo with everyone with their t-shirts on okay, so do not leave. Do not.

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Leave, if you don't have the shrimp we'll make sure we have some shirts over here, all right, so.

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Do not leave at the end because we're going to take one shot, everything one Jack, throw it again: okay and right now we're about to hear from our illustrious singers.

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We fall, we belong together together.

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If we all will water.

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We rise together.

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Together, we are dangerous to get those our differences together. We are born.

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Good morning, everyone.

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Distinct honor of presenting.

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The butterfly award the butterfly award is presented annually by the family of Carolyn Iran to support the creative ideas and Innovative instructional practices.

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The Chelsea Public.

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We welcome and educate all throughout her professional Camp Korean Carolyn believes in creating a.

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Safe nurturing environment for her students, we will remain seated this.

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Lifelong passion for Carolyn and began long before she started teaching in Chelsea.

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Carolyn was supportive.

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Biggest cheerleaders, she was an encouraging voice for teachers new to the professional and was always willing to lend a helping hand to support their success. As you have new teachers in your building this year, don't forget to be a Caroline.

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There are many teachers made in a profound difference in the lives of our students every day here in Chelsea. Unfortunately, we can only give this award to one person, but.

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The undercover cameras out there we see you keep doing this amazing.

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This year we present the Carolyn award to sayla Kayden.

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She is acutely aware of student academic needs competing priorities outside of school and each student's social, emotional well-being. No student situation is too.

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For sailor to find a way to educate and support sayla, you are so fitted for this Fitness Award. Thank you for knowing our students by their name, strength and story. Thank you for being a champion.

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I have another honor of presenting our superintendent done to help Meade. This assignment was assigned to me good morning right before I took my seats.

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If you know anything about Dr Rebecca, you should always expect the unexpected and you should always be prepared for any opportunity in which she will present to you and that's because she knows her team by our names, our story and.

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Today we will talk about your. Why and knowing your wife and my wife continues to evolve, because Dr beta has served not just as my leader but as a mentor and a dear friend my mind has evolved because of my who she saw a leader in me at the age of 25, when I didn't see a leader in me and when she presented the idea to me, I laughed at her like yeah on all your words, I see the knives.

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But she persisted, she created opportunities for me to grow.

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Ali, hey you've, heard abundance of Grace.

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You're magnetically magical I, you're incremental in making the impossible possible, so if they want to publicly thank you for seeing the gift in me that I didn't know was there. Thank you for being here.

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I introduced to others, I present our esteemed superintendent, Dr Amin ameta.

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Things on the cabinet all the time and they are so gracious to just roll with me. So um thank you. Dr Blake can't see. That was that.

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My why um pause for a moment uh welcome back and you guys this is our first convocation since 2019 and I am so blessed to be here. I.

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Sitting here and 29, th and I was superintendent.

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At the time I'm like what is this convocation I have no idea and the dance superintendent who's.

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My mentor Dr Mary Burke was like you'll, be okay, come and sit with me and just watch, and then you'll have your convocation next year and then next year hope right now, friends and we didn't have a convocation, we did it virtually and then we did it virtually and then we did it virtually so to be here is, is a really special this morning that we can come and gather and be together as a family, so I'm just so blessed.

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I first want to thank everyone who helped plan and make today possible you to our amazing music teachers and to our students.

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Know this because do you read all of our Kobe time and our virtual learning Pete was the one that's in um of our convocation and so Pete I just want to thank you for being there for me when I'm here.

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I'm, like is not here, we're going to do this, but I'm surprised because Pete taught me well I'm, so Pete I just want to. Thank you. Thank you.

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Congregational team and I.T staff- you guys, can watch.

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In the traffic, the Chelsea Police Department, all of our security and everyone that made today possible and I do have to say as special thank you to Veronica and Jessica Rivera and Michael Sullivan for all the work that they did with even down to the point.

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They were here late last night, putting these letters together, don't.

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They look beautiful, yeah and.

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I bought this is, let's not talk about the G another thing: okay,.

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We have an amazing team and I'm just so grateful and now we're not at least Demetrius if you're worse. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your free intermittee and always making.

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Our amazing designs for our shirts every time I come up with an idea.

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Demetrius right away gets to work on it and he created the design for the last four or five years of our t-shirt, so these are all specially made my creatures, thank you.

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For your insurance, we are going to take it with photo, we'll have them for you, just hurry up and wanted to move.

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To the center and we'll.

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Take a big group photo together and um and then you're on you'll be off, um but.

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To just share just a few things I'm going to try to make this as quick as possible um in June we graduated and I think we have all of us: 382 Chelsea high school graduates in June, so foreign.

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Students graduated from our school and 23.

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Then um we also.

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Expanded our our Extended Learning and opportunities, so we have school or school after school during breaks during the summer. So please, please, please, encourage your students to be in school. We have ample opportunities and I am so proud of the work that we have done. We also our.

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Educator diversity.

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We are now and when I brought in the superintendent's.

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Conference, the associate.

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Commissioner came over to me and I'm, not a voting speaker came over to me and said I'll be: do you realize that Chelsea Public Schools is now leaving the state in education and educator diversity.

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Parent program from Japan.

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And we were reaching recently featured in ASA magazine, which is Nationwide, so the my goal is to mention is to ensure that we are the best improving Urban District in the state.

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Massachusetts and together we can make that happen and we will make that happen.

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Ing I had to post a little bit, but going back to our why this is Emily. How many of you know Emily, because Emily would school at Chelsea Public, Schools, okay, she graduated this year and she's going to UMass Boston, so she's, a recent Chelsea High School grad Emily came up to me during the National Honor Society convocation afterwards I was eating and she came over to me with citizens and urgency. I was scared, yeah.

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And she said: I I need to talk to you soon. I have some concerns and I said: okay, it was a Thursday how about we meet Emily on Monday at 2 15 downstairs over here in the Chelsea High School office. I'll meet you, we can have a conversation so Emily we need, and she.

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On to share her concerns with me and but then she says to me, I had to come and talk to you because I was watching you on stage and you looked like family to me and oh, my God, I'm thinking, I, hope, I'm, not Grandma and then and then she says and I just thought that I could talk to you because you go to sleep. Just looked like me and you can be part of my family and that.

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Whole world to.

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Me and she and then I just listened.

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And then afterwards, she gave me a hide and she said thank you and.

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Emily and I have become BFFs so later on, I had Emily came and space and spoke to all of our leaders on the student panel and just last week.

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And I'm telling the story about Emily.

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And she's there and she's like Miss by the way your newborn Grandma, you were my mom's mom you're, my TT and I was like okay. I want to be your auntie, not your grandma, so I was very happy so, but Emily had such a uh when she came back. The way she came to me was citizens of urgency. That's what we want for all of our kids. We want all of our kids to advocate for themselves and because she did and I just listened I now have someone that she might miss something to come visit.

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You at City, Hall I'm, like you better, come out and visit me and I want to know how you're doing and I love, Emily and I told her I said: Emily you're gonna be the main you're going to be in my Main Street story. You're.

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My wife, you are why I do this work.

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Every single day- and so she was just got this big smile and she ridiculous I love you too, and no. We love our kids.

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Look at how many of us are in this room: we have cholo, we are the week as we employ most people in the city of Massachusetts, the city of Chelsea, thousands. We have a thousand employees total.

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We have 6 200 students. Imagine if we each of us took several students and we got to help our kids individually, one at a time by name, strength and storage and imagine how we could change our child's life. We are in the business of changing lives. We are.

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Challenges we are changing Generations in education, and that is a powerful thing. My grandfather was an educator. My grandmother was an educator. My.

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Educator my aunties were Educators. My brother was an educator. I came from a family of education and my grandfather always told me that education was key.

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He changed the trajectory of the life of all of the children in my family and will continue to so we changed what we are. We are changing lives. The work you do is the most important work in this world.

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Again, it's the most important work into being a teacher and I'm doubting them so much so thousand employees. If we each got to know just a handful of kids by mainstreaming story, we can make a difference.

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So I'm gonna end with this, as.

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When I was sitting to meet principal school- and he said mommy, don't ever forget your kindergarten self. He gave me permission to still be a kindergarten teacher and I'm so grateful for that. So.

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This has taken from.

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This is the Star Story, a young girl.

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Walking along a beach upon which now the starfish had watched during a terrible storm when she came upon.

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Starfish she'd pick it up and throw it back into the ocean. People.

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Watched her with Amusement.

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She had been doing this for some time when a man of poster and said like little girl. Why are you doing this? Look at the beach? You can save all these starfish. You can't begin to make a difference. The girl was crushed deflated, but after a few minutes she bent down picked up another starfish and hurled it as before she put into the ocean and she looked at the man and replied well, I made a difference for them.

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The old man thought about this inspiring east of eastigner starfish back into the sea. Soon their Community joined in in all the starfish were safe. So, let's join in together. Let's get to know our kids all of our students by name strength and story. I cannot do this alone, but together we could know everything together.

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Make a difference, I mean you have a wonderful school year and we wish you the very best.

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Three: four: we will fall together.

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With our differences to whether we are bolder braver, stronger.

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