Great conversation as a guest presenter today at @UCCS College of Education, with preservice teachers. What do you think of when you hear “gifted” students?
Obsessed with this guy on the US men's gymnastics team who's only job is pommel horse, so he just sits there until he's activated like a sleeper agent, whips off his glasses like Clark Kent and does a pommel horse routine that helps deliver the team its first medal in 16 years.
@slav_metalurges@ShayeGanam Which brought me to my final lesson of the day.
We are all connected. We all can help each other out, if we keep our hearts in the right place. Kindness seems to find each other, and good people are far more common than what social media tells us.
Be cool and kind my friends.
In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.
William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray.
The image amazes me because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.
His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.
It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.
Just a few days left to register by July 31 for next cohort- asynchronous, virtual classes in #gifted education for licensure, or for a masters degree focus. We need these conversations, and teachers who find & support strengths #removeceilings#uccs
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