Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome back to work in progress.

Our guest today is someone I am so excited to sit down with. He's been called a world

changer, a teacher of teaching, and even the modern day Mr. Rogers. His passion for education

and supplying is much as possible for young students to maximize their time in school is unmatched.

His name is Donovan Taylor Hall. Mr. Donovan, as he's often called at school,

has such a magnanimous drive to improve children's experiences in the classroom

that it caught the eye of the today's show, now this, and countless interviews for other publications,

programs, and podcasts. His desire to see growth and positivity in the way that children think

about themselves and in the way they talk to themselves has ultimately taken him out of the

classroom. Now Mr. Donovan serves as a foundational instructor at full life, where he helps not

only the youth of America but their teachers, counselors, and parents too, has a means of

broadening the scope of his positive impact. While I have Mr. Donovan on the show,

I'm looking forward to asking him about his own experiences in school and how they let him to

become the teacher that he is today. I'll also be talking to him about the impact of mental health

on our ability to learn and grow, how we might have more empathetically informed education,

which we could change in our country from the bottom up, and about the impact that sudden

growth can have on all of our mental health. He is a truly wonderful human being. I am infinitely

grateful to the internet for having connected us and made us friends, and I am so excited for all

of you to get to know him a little bit better. Enjoy.

For everybody listening at home, Donovan and I connected, we kind of became like little social

media cheerleaders for each other because I just happened, you know, I guess Instagram knows,

as creeped out as we are by the algorithm, Instagram knows that I am really passionate about education

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