Courtney Macavinta
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first heard Feb 2017
last heard Feb 2017
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But it is the empathy of the adults towards the students.
And so that's where our next wave of our work is amplifying in that area, which is how can we use technology to rapidly increase empathy and maintain empathy for students?
And so we're creating an app that'll have, for example, like virtual reality experiences embedded in it.
So teachers can feel what it feels like to walk through the school to prison pipeline, you know, can hear from students, can just maintain that empathy because people won't lose empathy on purpose.
It happens from burnout and stress.
And by the way, many public schools are not safe safe nurturing spaces for the teachers.
Right.
So, you know, this stuff starts to roll downhill.
I mean, I've never met teachers and I work with teachers that work in jails.
I've never met a teacher
Who doesn't like kids, hates kids, wants them to go to prison, right?
That's not r that's not what's going on
there is what's going on here is documented implicit bias, unconscious bias.
And the lack of empathy, so we have to work on nurturing that.
You know, we have to be like empathy physical trainers on ourselves.
When we're in these environments, and you know, I'm sure parents can relate to this.
I mean, the minute our empathy for a child goes, that's when we start to get very punitive.
you know, very harsh.
It's just it's just human being.
And it's fight or flight, right?
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