https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl What's your favorite quote or part from Rita Pierson's TED talk? en-us 2022-10-19 16:55:36 UTC 2022-10-21 14:49:15 UTC hello@padlet.com jenna_ginder https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347448101 "And you know your toughest kids are never absent.  Never.  You won’t like them all, and the tough ones show up for a reason.  It’s the connection.  It’s the relationships.  So teachers become great actors and actresses, and we come to work when we don’t feel like it, and we’re listening to policy that doesn’t make sense, and we teach anyway.  We teach anyway, because that’s what we do”.]]> 2022-10-19 17:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347448101 https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347715296 "Is this job tough?  You betcha!  Oh God, you betcha! But it's not impossible.  We can do this; we are educators.  We are born to make a difference!"

]]> 2022-10-19 19:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347715296 https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347856397 Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.]]> 2022-10-19 21:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2347856397 https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2348882438 "Some people think that you can either have it in you to build a relationship, or you don't. Stephen Covey had the right idea. He said that you ought to just throw in a few simple things, like, 'Seek first to understand, as opposed to being understood.' Simple things, like 'apologize.' ... You say it long enough, it starts to be a part of you."]]> 2022-10-20 11:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2348882438 jennifer_hawn https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2349057602 "I apologize." 
It's not hard. Say it. Mean it. No one is perfect...and no one here expects you to be.]]> 2022-10-20 13:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jenna_ginder/uyvl472mf5cgscwl/wish/2349057602