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How do you CONNECT to your students?

Madison City Schools' students reflect on they CONNECT to their peers, teachers, and schools.

Mr. Bussey over time creates a secret handshake
with each of his students. 
Students are humans and deserve to be treated as such...first.  Once students hear and SEE a teacher say they love them, the connection avenues open up, they work harder for that teacher to make them proud.  If a student, though, KNOWS and BELIEVES a teacher is not being honest with their love, that potential for connection is reduced, even possibly eliminated.
Dave Burgess, author of Teach Like a Pirate, explains the importance of doing the front end work to find out about your students so that you can create “hooks” that will pull them in! #tlap
As teachers, we can play us versus them, or we can JOIN them. Mr. Anderson plays during a JCHS football game.
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