Start With The Heart

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  1. Hello everyone.
  2. Uh This is Elena stole.
  3. Um I read I've been reading the book start with
  4. the heart um um by Michelle true jello.
  5. Um and she was a an administrator um uh at
  6. schools for a long time, and has written a book
  7. on her experiences.
  8. Um And just to explain the major concept that I
  9. have been understanding from this book is that um education
  10. has to start from a place of uh of vulnerability
  11. and of treating students like human beings um of acknowledging
  12. that they have hearts and personalities and that they are
  13. holistic people.
  14. And so that's why I have this picture of this
  15. young woman um who's made up of different puzzle pieces.
  16. Because um part of um uh Trudeau's point is that
  17. humans and students are are complex beings and we need
  18. to acknowledge the various um parts that make them up.
  19. Um So I have five different takeaways um that I
  20. would like to share with you.
  21. The first take away um from the introduction and a
  22. quote from the introduction is a way of being a
  23. way of life.
  24. So this model of teaching um teaching for social, emotional
  25. and academic development.
  26. Um it stems from a lifelong pursuit of of studying
  27. this yourself.
  28. And so it's acknowledging um the full humanity.
  29. Our whole is what makes us up holistically.
  30. Um so going back and let's take a look at
  31. takeaway to uh so for the first chapter, it's about
  32. the people.
  33. Um teaching isn't just about getting a message across and
  34. getting um the right uh test scores.
  35. It's it's about the students, the human beings, and so
  36. we need to meet students where they are, which might
  37. mean they're in bad situations and they're doing poorly emotionally
  38. and they have um like messy home situations, but acknowledging
  39. um yeah the students are different and that your students
  40. are different from you and that um your admin team
  41. is different from you and um respecting the diversity, acknowledging
  42. the differences and meeting students where they are treating them
  43. as human beings.
  44. That's what that chapter was about.
  45. Um The third takeaway uh is built on this idea,
  46. Built on a foundation of Love, and this is the
  47. idea that um we want to engage students, fellow faculty
  48. and ourselves out of love um which uh which means
  49. um engaging with people through empathy, encouragement, having expectations for
  50. them and um including a certain level of accountability which
  51. looks like having boundaries.
  52. Um and so academic and personal success.
  53. Success can be can be met through placing love as
  54. the Foundation and building basically building academic and personal achievements
  55. off of this Foundation of Love.
  56. And that's why there's this picture of a house on
  57. a solid on a solid Foundation For the 4th take
  58. away. Um the Villa talked about self awareness um and
  59. it's this understanding of our internal goings ons um and
  60. that through helping students gain self awareness by asking questions
  61. by or by helping them ask questions um by helping
  62. them find ways to express their feelings the emotions and
  63. by practicing patients with them, they can learn to understand
  64. what's going on with them and that helps them um
  65. more healthily relate to their external world.
  66. Um The last concept, also part of this idea of
  67. treating our students as holistic feelings um is self management,
  68. so the the chapter was titled Feeling It without Losing
  69. It. Um and the point is that um as students
  70. are growing and understanding of themselves, they also need to
  71. learn how to manage what's going on inside them, and
  72. teachers can help students attain this by helping them consider
  73. their emotions.
  74. So what is going on?
  75. Why did you react like that?
  76. Can you think about that?
  77. Um And also personally not reacting to their outbursts and
  78. taking that upon yourself?
  79. Um but practicing and helping them practice the start stop
  80. continue exercise, which is listing out um maybe practices that
  81. we want to start and habits that we want to
  82. stop, um but also things um in how we live
  83. our lives and that we want to continue.
  84. Um So those were the I've takeaways from the first
  85. half of my book, start with the Heart.
  86. Thank you