Episode 100: Prenda: Looking Back, Looking Forward. A Conversation with Kaity and Kelly.

Another one is do what is right, not what is easy.

Which I think is a Dumbledore quote.

I was like watching Harry Potter the other day with my kids and I've never, I haven't seen the movies in years.

I'm like pretty sure he says that.

So when I wrote that, I didn't mean to quote Dumbledore.

I think so often it's so easy, especially like in our like over entertainment, over like easy lives, sometimes to just like slip into ease and just like do the easy thing.

And being an empowered learner and owning your education and like who you are becoming as a person, as a young human, a young adult, like really depends on your willingness to lean into what is right.

And not just like right, but what is hard sometimes.

Right.

Like like progression and progress does not come easily.

Like it is a fight to be won every day.

And that battle for self-mastery and self-governance and like being able to govern your agency well, like that's a fight that these kids are in every minute of every day.

And I want to provide the support, the relational support, the environment and like community and then the academic, like educational approach.

that supports that, that helps them like lean into challenge instead of like find the easiest way to the A or like to get an 89.6.

So they've been like, well, how can we remove a lot of those things and those beliefs? So like, that's not even a thing that we talk about anymore.

And how can we just talk about our future selves? And something early on that I told a lot of guides, and I found this myself, like it's hard to like reposition yourself as the adult in the room and not pretend to be a teacher.

Like the role of guiding is very different than teaching.

And sometimes they're like, people will ask us and we get this question all the time, don't we? Like, do you have to be a certified teacher to do this? And our wild off the wall answer is no.

And the reason is because this is actually a very different skill set than traditional classroom teaching, right? Definitely there's some overlap for sure, but it's not exactly the same thing.

And when you're pretending to be a teacher, well...

OK, so as a guide, you have to remember that, like.

Your job is not to force everyone to do to jump through all of the hoops.

Right? It's like, that's kind of like the mindset of a teacher.

It's like, here's the curriculum schedule.

Here's the standard test.