Maria Kennedy

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439 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2022 last heard Mar 2022

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 284: Maria Kennedy on What's Needed & What's Next in the Movement to Support 2e Students · 8 Mar 2022 podcast

And what absolutely terrified me was when I was bragging on this kid and how amazing he was, uh, the teacher who was going to get him in two years said to me, I must stop teaching this child at this level.

And I looked at her and went, Excuse me, what do you mean?

She goes, Well, when he comes to me, what will I teach him?

I I wanted to cry.

I'm going, you'll take him from wherever he is to the next level.

She goes, but that's not what we're doing and you're already teaching him stuff that he's not supposed to get till he gets to me in two years.

So the crusade began from there.

So as I have traveled, I have been really, really blessed and fortunate to not only teach in the UK where I'm from, but I was also able to teach in the Caribbean and coming over to the States, I've taught on the East Coast and then was gifted Bridges Academy, where uh there are all these amazing people who believe the same as me that we should take trips.

Children from where they are to the next level.

So find out what they're good at, work with their strengths, and then move them on.

And also one of the interesting things was in all of my travels, I have met children who

Are not your typical gifted child, so they don't excel in everything.

Um, they have struggled in areas, and for me, it just made sense to me that they just needed help.

So we supported them where they were, we helped them with the things that they struggled with.

I came up with creative ways to do things in the classroom um so that they didn't feel that they were.

Were stupid and not able to do.

But that was just kind of second nature to me.

But I'm as I've traveled, I fought with people who were very, very rigid in their thinking and believing that education is only taught in this way.

I mean, no disrespect, but I was completely blown away when I came to the States and teachers actually taught from a teacher's handbook and actually read a script.

I couldn't understand how you could stand there with twenty little babies in front of you and read them a script from a book.

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