Kids These Days (Book Study #15)

Please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are, where you are from, what you teach and anything else you want to include!

Take us back to your why.   How’d you get here?   Why are you in this job of influencing children?   What is your critical purpose on this planet?   What do you hope will be your legacy?

Give 3 examples of questions you could ask your students to build better connections with them. Please provide context for these questions.   (When and where are you asking them this?   How?   Why?)

  What does your “light-up” look like?   Who do you find it the easiest to light up around?   Who, right now in your world, might need a little more of your light-up?

 What, in this video, did you find most meaningful? Elaborate.

  Have you ever had a student dealing with the death or loss of a loved one?   How did you handle it?   Would you have handled it differently after reading this chapter about grief?

Consider the “invisible backpack” as described by Dr. Fox.   How can you recognize these invisible backpacks when they enter your classroom?   What can you do to help lighten the load these students carry?

  Think about the kids you’re most worried about in your world, right now.   How can you apply what you read in Chapter 6 to help this kid?

  What does it mean to have a culture of “AND”?   What could this (or does this) look like in your school?   What part can you play in improving your school’s culture?

  Dr. Carrington shares her list of who really matters to her and why.   Can you get a few of those people in your head right now?   Remember:   dead or alive and you might never have even met them.   These are the people who you think about every time you need to make big decisions.   Who really matters to you?   Why?

  Please post your thoughts about this course below.   What did you like about it?   What didn’t you like about it?   Would you recommend this book study to a colleague?