From a Wheel of Cheese to Empowering Education: Teri Giannetti, Detroit, Episode 58

I really didn’t know what I was doing. All I knew was I wanted it to be right for kids. To feel they were welcome and greeted and mattered. It’s all about relationships. You need to know how to teach. You need to know the curriculum. You need to be strong in what you do as a Teacher, and as a Principal, you need to be a leader. When push comes to shove, it’s all about relationships. A kid will walk, go to the wall for you, if he or she, or they think you are in their corner.

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Sharon Ilstrup, Seattle, Episode 56 (podcast transcript)

I work with college grads. They love this work. I work with leaders at Microsoft too, and they love this work. I really want to take this work into even younger people. So that is like a dream and a vision that I have to really help support, teach, educate, and coach young people, not just women, young men as well, so that they understand these three different roles that we play when we feel uncomfortable with our feelings. Okay. And how to shift out of that, how to accept it and be aware of it and see the wisdom and the gift in it and how to shift out of that. I mean, that will save lives.

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