Jessica Lahey
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877 appearances
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Apr 2021
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And so, you know, as we sort of look at, for example, how gift of failure applies when our kids are home all the time or when we're sort of the ancillary teachers or whatever the situation is, there are all these new applications that, of course, when I wrote gift of failure, I couldn't possibly have predicted or or even thought about.
So
The nice thing is, um, the last five years of my teaching life were spent teaching in a drug and alcohol rehab for adolescents.
Mm.
One of the things that's generally true about that situation is that not only do the kids generally not want to be in rehab, they really, really, really don't want to be in school in rehab.
So all of a sudden, five years of for five years of teaching, engagement was pretty much the only thing I focused on.
Like how do I engage these kids that do not want to be a part of learning right now?
And that was
Fantastic for me because now during COVID when kids are feeling like
Why does this even matter?
I'm not even there.
Who cares?
That engagement piece has become increasingly a big part of what I talk about.
Yes, things
I think there's gonna be some permanent changes that happen.
I'm a but I'm always optimistic.
I'm just like this eternal education optimist and just sort of hope that we're heading in the right direction.
Well, out of that conversation I'd had actually with Susan Kane.
I had been you know, w one of the things I think the r a writer, we writers often do is okay, we file a piece and then we're like, Okay, what's next?
What do I have to do next?
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