Episode 48: Teaching Students, Teachers and Families the Importance of Story
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
David LaFrance is an elementary school principal who readily shares his story of growing up in a broken and dysfunctional family. His story helps him relate to kids from hard places on a daily basis, as well as drives him to use as many resources as possible to establish relationships with all the people in his life, including his family, his staff, his students and even their families. Listen to his inspiring story and learn more about tools you can use to better understand trauma and the importance of story.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:28.6 | Person's story really has an opportunity to break down any barrier. Like, we look at each other and we see he looks like this, he does this job, and so this probably means what he's all about. But then you hear |
| 0:38.5 | that story, you're like, wow, I would have never imagined or new. And wow, I can't believe |
| 0:46.0 | like that person's stories. I have a similar story. |
| 1:13.2 | Hey, it's Jamie Cave. Welcome to The Forgotten Podcast. If this is your first time hearing this podcast, I am so glad you're here. I encourage you to check out our over 40 other episodes, which feature interviews from foster parents, workers in the field, adults who grew up in foster care as kids, |
| 1:19.6 | ministry leaders, and more. Story is such a powerful thing. And the more we understand each other, |
| 1:26.0 | the better our relationships are going to be. Today, I am talking with David LaFrance. David is married to Jennifer, and they have two kids and one on the way. |
| 1:29.9 | David has been in the field of education for 19 years, serving in elementary, middle, and high school, and has now been the elementary school principal for over four years. |
| 1:41.0 | I know David personally, as he is the principal at my kids' school, and I am really excited |
| 1:46.5 | for you to hear him share his story, and then we're going to transition into the fact that |
| 1:51.4 | everybody has a story. We also talk about programs and strategies our schools can implement to |
| 1:57.1 | better grow empathy in our students, which is so important and so needed. |
| 2:02.0 | There is a lot of good stuff ahead. |
| 2:04.3 | So we're going to go to that interview right now. |
| 2:12.4 | So David, I am really happy to have you on today. |
| 2:15.7 | You grew up in New York and your parents had been |
| 2:19.2 | married and separated three different times. And you said various addictions and abusive |
| 2:24.5 | situations were present in your childhood and actually put your older brothers into foster care. |
| 2:31.5 | So will you just tell us a little bit more about your story? It's kind of funny because |
| 2:35.8 | when you're in the moment, you never really think about sharing your story. And as you grow up, |
| 2:40.4 | you're like always afraid to share those stories. And it's not until you kind of realize that a lot of |
| 2:44.7 | those things were not anything that you got control over until you kind of have that freedom to let go |
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