@Doug_Lemov I like it a lot. My only suggestion, I’d be more overt w the coaching reference, put the graphic on a clipboard. (Plus, the X’s and O’s are also symbolic of hugs and kisses, which represents the heart in being a coach)Can’t wait to read it!
There was a long silence. I look in her eyes. Such pain. I was able to choke out the words, “You’re right.” Fast forward 28 years and I find myself thinking, “You’re right.”
Today as I reflect on the peaceful protests and the angry riots, I remember April 1992. I was standing in front of my 7th graders as a first year teacher, having been a teacher for nine months and ten days. Our school trip to CA had been cancelled due to the LA rioting
place after the Rodney King verdict. We were talking about all of the looting and the burning of neighborhoods in LA. One student raised her hand. “You say you understand. You think you understand. But you will never understand what it’s like to be me, what it’s like to be Black.
Lovely Children's Story about Social Distancing.
Time to Come In, Bear: A Children's Story About Social Distancing https://t.co/tWiCFH4N6r via @YouTube
The words we choose to use when we engage with others have the power to bring joy, encouragement, laughter, peace, advice, shame, insult, threat, heartbreak, insecurity...
One way or another, the words we speak have infinite power.
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