Finding a way in, by Sinéad Burke
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
How to teach a classroom full of "difficult" kids? By meeting them where they are, and finding a way in. This is something that Sinéad Burke sees every day in her teaching career. Her own life experience has taught her how to turn everything that excludes someone into something that includes, by looking for that common ground we all have with one another. What can you do to build a way in for someone?
Sinéad Burke is the host of her own amazing podcast: As Me with Sinéad Burke. Listen: https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/as-me-with-sinead-burke/
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| 0:00.0 | As I pursue a degree in education, a student at my college turns to me and asks, |
| 0:16.0 | How are you going to do it? |
| 0:19.0 | How are you going to be a teacher? |
| 0:24.6 | The kids are going to be bigger than you. How are you going to control them? |
| 0:27.6 | Questions like these never stop. |
| 0:30.6 | Will you be able to reach the light switches? |
| 0:33.6 | Can you even hang artwork on walls? If not, will it lessen the students' experience? |
| 0:42.3 | It is the beginning of a new reality as I work towards my dream. Parents, other teachers and staff |
| 0:52.3 | will constantly question my ability to be an educator. |
| 0:57.0 | Of course, being a little person at the top of the classroom is a very curious thing for my students. |
| 1:10.0 | Shnade Burke is a devoted teacher and an activist on a mission to make the fashion |
| 1:17.4 | and design industries welcoming of everyone, regardless of their physical differences from those |
| 1:22.5 | in the majority. Today, Shnade's meditative story is above anything else a human one. |
| 1:29.3 | It's a story of what it's like to look different to everyone else |
| 1:32.3 | and how years of exclusion have taught her how to teach inclusiveness to our children. |
| 1:39.3 | In this series, we blend intimate stories with mindfulness prompts |
| 1:43.0 | to help you find a moment of |
| 1:44.4 | calm and meaning at any time of the day. I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide on this very |
| 1:51.3 | special episode of Meditative Story. From From time to time, we'll pause Shnade's story ever so briefly |
| 2:07.9 | for me to come in with a thought, to deepen your experience as you listen. |
| 2:13.5 | To feel the effects, just stay in the story. Stay with Chenade. |
| 2:22.3 | The body relaxed. |
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