{"data":{"ID":660,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477950068,"CreatorID":1233,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Loving the kids who frustrate the heck out of you","Handle":"loving_the_kids_who_frustrate_the_heck_out_of_you","ShortDescription":"We all love our kids. Let's talk honestly about how hard it can be to keep loving our kids who frustrate the heck out of us. In this conversation, explore the challenge and the joy of being in relationship with behaviorally challenging students. We'll start with awareness and move to setting concrete intentions for better serving all of our kids.","Description":"Let's talk about how to care for our most challenging students when our experience teaching them pushes on our best intentions. Let's turn the challenge inward and explore how our approaches to behaviorally challenging students can be supportive, caring, and in the interest of student growth. How are we showing students we care - even when, especially when, they are pushing our buttons? How are we staying in relationship when all the walls are up? How are we responding to challenging behavior - or are we just reacting? \r\n\r\n\r\nLet's identify and leave behind approaches that are condescending, that perpetuate a savior narrative, that express pity or hopelessness. Let\u2019s share success stories and identify areas for further growth. We\u2019ll take accountability for our own lenses and actions and commit to leaving behind the ones that don\u2019t serve our students - all of our students. Let\u2019s talk about how race, class, ability, and other identities impact our expectations and our actions. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoin me for an honest conversation about how we can move through challenging relationships with students and get to the growth and the joy.","Link":["Http:\/\/shevrin.wordpress.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll use a circle model to dive into some of these hard conversations and give space to all voices in the room.","Presenter":["Alex Shevrin"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Centerpoint School"],"PresenterEmail":["alex.shevrin@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":78,"ScheduleLocationID":16,"SubmitterID":1233,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}