Chris Balme
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238 appearances
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Mar 2023
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If we can see it through that developmental lens of what are they really trying to do here and how do we accompany them to meet those developmental needs, then I think you see kids who are just not the typical middle school story, not rolling their eyes and ignoring you, but actually very motivated people when you're helping them do what they need to do.
Thanks Debbie.
It's great to be here.
Yeah, thank you.
I think maybe like a lot of people, I got into this by heading in the opposite direction and life turned me around.
You know, I was an unhappy middle schooler and high schooler for that matter.
I I thought school was boring.
I didn't know how to connect with people.
I just kind of marched through it.
Went to college thinking, I'm not sure what I'll do, but it will not be education.
That was the one thing I was.
confident about.
And so of course here I am through the course of business school and and other adventures, I realized
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that if you want to do something good for the world, it's going to involve kids.
And so I became a student teacher to try to test out if that was really for me and got placed in a seventh grade classroom.
Not my plan.
Don't even know if that was anyone's planned or just random.
And got hooked pretty quickly, partly because I think middle school is such a fascinating
Time of life and so underappreciated.
And partly because the school I was in and the system I got exposed to was so dysfunctional that I felt like I could contribute here somehow.
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