#8 Me, Myself, and I

Education is a profoundly human endeavor.  To teach and to learn requires establishing relationships, making connections, and being vulnerable to challenge what you thought you knew.  How we, as educators, show up matters.  Our ability to help students grow into their authentic selves through the educational process is pivotal to making positive strides.  Using myself as the example, in this episode, I make the case for why being your authentic self and helping students to be their authentic selves is central to teaching and learning.  “Until we learn to distinguish non-learning from failure [to learn] and to respect the truth behind this massive rejection of schooling by students from poor and oppressed communities, we will not be able to solve the major problems of education in the United States today.” (Herbert Kohl, 1994, p. 32)