The Many Facets

[...As a Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® Certified Instructor, Maria is often asked to problem-solve tough situations. She had just trained the two special ed teachers in the CPI program, but they believed that no amount of training would help them handle this child’s behavior.

So when Maria visited their classroom, she started by standing quietly off to the side. As the boy entered the classroom, he told her to get out of his way—she was blocking the bathroom pass hook—and when she didn’t move fast enough for the boy, he repeated, “Get out of my way, b****!”

Now all eyes were on Maria with that “Now what?” look on their faces. But here’s what happened next: …]

I was substituting a 5th grade class and at the end of the day, one of the students put this song on. The student who put it on said, ‘everyone loves this song and it helps everyone get ready to leave.” When I sub, I try my best to make it a ‘regular day,’ so I was totally fine with it.

All the students just immediately got this overwhelming feeling of ‘cool.’ They were trying so hard to rap each word precisely and would look down and whisper the song. It was like everyone was in a trance of concentration that none of my spoken words could do. This is/was amazing #powerofrap HeckYes!

here is a list of things in no order:

1. i’m going to start using this tumblr page that I haven't used in over a year as a digital bulletin board for my current grad studies. I’m one month in at Washington Governors University in the Teachers College for K-12 Special Education. Tumblr hopefully will keep my brain refreshed in a creative & fun way alongside seeing other peoples’ posts of cute kittens, monumental stories, quotes, and other nonsequitur gems.

2. These are taking over my life:

3. This is helping me/I am helping myself (aka applying metacognitive skills for studying & planning):

Who's gonna love you now that gravity has brought you down?