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B1 Intermediate English 7:49 Educational

Every kid needs a champion | Rita Pierson | TED

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Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

5/10

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Subtitles (167 segments)

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Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

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I have spent my entire life

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either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse,

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or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.

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(Laughter)

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Both my parents were educators,

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my maternal grandparents were educators,

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and for the past 40 years, I've done the same thing.

00:34

And so, needless to say, over those years

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I've had a chance to look at education reform

00:40

from a lot of perspectives.

00:42

Some of those reforms have been good.

00:43

Some of them have been not so good.

00:46

And we know why kids drop out.

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We know why kids don't learn.

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It's either poverty, low attendance,

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negative peer influences...

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We know why.

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But one of the things that we never discuss

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or we rarely discuss

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is the value and importance of human connection.

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Relationships.

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James Comer says that no significant learning

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can occur without a significant relationship.

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George Washington Carver says all learning

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is understanding relationships.

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Everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult.

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For years, I have watched people teach.

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I have looked at the best and I've looked at some of the worst.

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A colleague said to me one time,

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"They don't pay me to like the kids.

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They pay me to teach a lesson.

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The kids should learn it.

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I should teach it, they should learn it,

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