EP126 How YOUR response to student behavior can change the trajectory of a child's life & disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 8 April 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
One of the toughest parts of teaching students who enter our classrooms with a lot of personal and behavioral issues is that feeling of helplessness that comes from working with them. You might feel that there is nothing you can do to reach that student, or that you have no control over the situation at all.
It's a frustrating situation for sure, but today, I discuss why you have far more power and influence than you may think through having a restorative mindset versus a punitive mindset, and choosing as a school community to approach behavior problems through a lens that is focused on long-term solutions which restore a child to wholeness rather than punishing or criminalizing kids for their behavioral choices.
Join me today on one of the most important episodes I've ever done. Listen in on your time — it might shift your perspective in a way that literally changes the trajectory of a child's life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 126 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the |
| 0:11.6 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share how your response to student behavior can change the trajectory of a child's life |
| 0:22.0 | and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. |
| 0:25.0 | Visit Truth for Teachers.com to get a transcript and links to recommended resources. |
| 0:30.0 | I think one of the toughest parts of teaching kids who enter our classrooms with tons of personal and behavioral issues is just that feeling of helplessness that can come from working with them. |
| 0:42.0 | You might feel that there's nothing that you can do to |
| 0:45.5 | reach that student or that you have no control over the situation at all. It might be your |
| 0:50.7 | instinct to simply get those challenging students out of your class. |
| 0:54.8 | Maybe you thought, well, they clearly don't want to learn, so why keep them here and let them |
| 0:59.5 | disrupt everyone else's learning? It is a frustrating situation for sure, but you have far more |
| 1:06.7 | power and influence in this situation than you may think. And I don't mean in this teacher savior kind of sense where you're like |
| 1:14.5 | Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie Dangerous Minds. This isn't about saving students and |
| 1:18.8 | it's also not about how it's your responsibility to save kids. |
| 1:23.0 | What I want to talk to you about today |
| 1:25.0 | is about having a restorative mindset |
| 1:28.0 | versus a punitive mindset, |
| 1:30.0 | and about what happens when we choose as a school community to approach behavior issues |
| 1:35.0 | through a lens that is focused on long-term solutions that really restore a child a wholeness |
| 1:41.6 | rather than punishing or criminalizing kids for their behavioral choices. |
| 1:46.1 | This episode will be formatted slightly differently than most of my episodes because I interviewed |
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