Fabulous! Simply fabulous. Are you an educator? This will lift you up! This woman speaks to my heart. I’m so grateful that someone posted this on Facebook today so that I might start my day feeling deep to my core why I chose to be a teacher and why I still teach. I’ve spent my entire career working with students who struggle to learn and be successful in school. Relationship is the key. You can have the best curriculum in the world, be the smartest teacher in the world, but, if you don’t connect with kids and they don’t like you, they won’t learn.
http://new.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion#
Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.