The Disney secret that every teacher should use: Take 5

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Now let's get on to the episode.
Hello magicians, and welcome

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back to another episode, the
Edgy Magic Podcast.

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My name is Doctor Sam Fessage,
and today we're going to be

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looking at the Take 5 strategy
for teachers, making every

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student feel like the most
important person in the room.

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So let's talk about it.
What is the Take 5 strategy?

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I am currently listening to the
book Creating Magic by Lee

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Cockerel.
It was suggested to me by a

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wonderful colleague, Doctor Amy
Orville.

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And Lee Cockerel is the former
executive vice president of

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operations for Walt Disney.
He was there for 10 years.

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And in one of his chapters, he
describes a quick strategy

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called Take 5.
And it's based on Disney's

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culture.
So Take fives are spontaneous

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moments where cast members,
they've been trained to look for

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opportunities to do something
special for guests.

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For example, child looks an ice
cream cone.

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The ice cream falls off the
cone.

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The cast member replaces it for
free, asking a little girl who's

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dressed up in her favorite
Princess dress for their

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autograph.
Maybe sharing some history about

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a ride or a fun fact about the
park.

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So just some different ways to
make guests feel honored and

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special.
Just to go above and beyond just

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that little minute, just that
little bit.

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And they're called Take Fives
because they take under 5

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minutes, usually about 5 seconds
to blow a guest.

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Mine just through real world
acts of kindness and just

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showing up for people.
Because in his.

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Book Lee Cockerel shares that
magic isn't a grand gesture.

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It's a moment of deliberate
noticing.

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And if you remember back in
previous episodes of the End of

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Magic podcast, I talked about
the empower of noticing your

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students, pausing, taking a
minute and noticing something

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about your student and sharing
that because it goes and it

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shows the student that they're
respected, appreciated, and

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valued.
This is exactly the same thing.

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It's deliberate noticing where a
cast member pauses, takes the

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time to show, hey, I see you and
you matter.

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And that's exactly what we do as
teachers, right?

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That's what we do every day.
So in this episode, we're going

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to talk about how this Take 5
strategy relates to teaching,

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and we're going to give some
examples.

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Now I do have them separated
into grade levels, but they

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could work across different
grade levels if you would like.

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And if you wanted to, you can.
Also incorporate these in the

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professional development or in
professional learning

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communities if you are a coach
or maybe in higher Ed, using it

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as a way to model for your
college students, your future

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teachers, how to use this
strategy in their classroom.

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All right, so let's go ahead and
talk about that.

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So the Take 5 strategy relates
beautifully into the classroom

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and his book Lee Cockrell shares
about leadership principles and

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one of them is everyone's
important.

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And in the book he.
Means everybody.

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And he talks about the rave
theory, but maybe I'll talk

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about another episode.
The respect, appreciate, value,

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everyone.
And this is exactly what we do

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as teachers in inclusive
learning environments.

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We create these spaces where
everybody is valued, supported,

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appreciated for the unique
individual that they are.

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So every student that comes into
your classroom, take try to do a

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take 5.
Let's go ahead and look at a few

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examples because these take
fives, they don't cost anything.

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But remember that phrase.
Kids don't remember that test

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you gave or, or that worksheet.
They remember how they how you

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made them feel.
That's exactly what this is

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going for.
And this can be something that a

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student remembers for the rest
of their life.

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All right, so a take 5 for some
K to 12 examples.

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Let's go ahead and talk about
early education.

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When when I was listening to the
book and he shared about the

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child in the Princess dress and
getting her autograph, I thought

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that was really cool.
So I think it might be neat if

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you were given some artwork from
a little one, ask them to sign

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it because you can then display
it maybe in a frame or on the

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fridge, or maybe you have a
bulletin board that has plastic

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sleeves that you can put in
there.

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Each of their artwork or each of
something that they're proud of.

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So it's not all the same
assignment or assessment.

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Students can pick and choose
what they're proud of and

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display that in their plastic
sleeve and then have them sign

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their work just to show, hey,
I'm a legit artist or I'm a

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writer or something like that.
Another one, super easy right

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off the bat, greet every student
by name.

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And we've seen something like
this where teachers have secret

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handshakes with students,
individualized handshakes with

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students, high fives, all those
wonderful things.

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Maybe you've also seen the
example of students can choose

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how they want to be greeted.
Like a fist bump, a high 5.

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Something like that, that's
really cool too.

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Thumbs up.
All kinds of stuff you can do

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there.
But you can add a little bit

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more in addition to, hey, good
morning Amy, how are you doing

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today?
And a little bit to it.

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So how was the play last night?
How was rehearsal?

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How was Girl Scouts?
Whatever that child is into, you

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can ask them about it and just
make a little note and remember

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to ask them.
I've seen this next one in a lot

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of different kindergarten and
1st grade classrooms where they

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have something like student of
the day or student student of

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the week, a guest of honor.
This is something where I've

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seen it done different ways.
One is during morning meeting,

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the student gets to sit in a
special chair, maybe it's the

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special reading chair or
whatever, and they get to share

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about their family.
They get to share about their

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hobbies, their interests,
something throughout the week

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that was a specific question
that they get asked by their

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peers and they get to share
about it.

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I've also seen this.
Done on bulletin boards where

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there's a student of the week or
student of the month and they

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bring in pictures of themselves
and their families and their

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friends and they decorate A
bulletin board that's up for the

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month for them.
My favorite is relates back to

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Danielson's framework where it
talks about communicating with

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families.
Remember teachers, you do not

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want your first communication to
families be something negative.

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You want it to set that positive
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So.
Make a mental note.

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Observe what students are doing.
Notice what they did, Did they

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help out a friend?
Did they support a peer?

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Did they help somebody out or
jot it down?

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And throughout that first week,
make sure every student has one

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thing that you noticed about
them and send a positive note

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home.
That's a great way to set the

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stage for positive parent
communication, positive student

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interaction.
All right, upper elementary.

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Let's talk about some ideas for
3rd through 5th grade.

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So if a student's returning a
paper or maybe they're.

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Doing a research project on an
animal, you can ask them, oh

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hey, I saw you wrote about my
daughter loves cats, so you

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wrote about cats.
You research cats.

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Do you have one at home?
And if you know my daughter, you

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know everything about our cats.
That way the student feels seen,

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they feel heard, and they can
talk about their passion and

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their excitement.
What about something where you

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share with the student?
Hey I noticed so something like.

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Hey, I noticed you're doing.
Really Well this week you're

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focusing on your work.
You have really improved on your

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spelling test this week from
last week.

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I noticed that you have a new
friend with you eating lunch.

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I noticed that you were really
good in the hallway with

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transitions, whatever that is.
So it shows that the.

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Student is progressing and
you're honoring the progress and

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the process instead of just the
final product.

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What about having a student or
groups of students come eat

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lunch with you in your
classroom?

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What did that be?
Fun?

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And it's just to get to know
them and have them get to know

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you have you get to know them a
little bit and just have them

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eat lunch, maybe have a special
snack and students and you can

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rotate that until every student
gets in to have lunch with you.

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Just a nice little small group
type thing where they can chat

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with you, snap and eat and talk.
So I think that's really fun

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too.
All right, let's talk about

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middle schools where it gets a
little awkward, right?

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We got puberty, we got stuff
going on.

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So for this one, maybe give a
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Jon it down on a post it note,
pop it on their desk so they can

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see it.
So you're like praising them

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privately, but you're giving
them a little sticky.

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I think that'd be really fun
that they can see it, connect

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with students, show them that
you know about something that

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they like.
Maybe they're really into video

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gaming, so maybe share about how
today's lesson relates to video

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gaming or basketball or whatever
is going on in their life or

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whatever it is pop culture thing
there is using check insurance

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with students.
This is really easy on a tool

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called Classroom Screen and I
have a wonderful post about it.

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I'll post it in the show notes.
You can check it out.

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Classroom Screen has wonderful
little check insurance.

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They can be anonymous where
students can check in and share

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how they're feeling.
That's just a nice way to see

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how students are doing.
Or you can use a Google Form or

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Microsoft form if you want it to
be wanted to have their names so

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you can follow up have students
catch.

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Them.
Outside of class, maybe attend

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their rehearsal or attend their
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Wouldn't that be fun?
They get to see you outside of

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class and it shows.
Hey, I'm invested in you.

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All right, let's talk about high
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So for example, something that
you could say to students that

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would just really take that 5
seconds would be if you have a

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student who's doing very well,
they're they hand in quality

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work, they're on time, they're
punctual, you'll have their

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energy.
Like you're really vibing with

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that student.
You can say you know what, when

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you need a letter of
recommendation, please make sure

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you come and talk to me.
You can do something like that.

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And that way it's an intentional
little nudge.

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Hey, when you need those letters
or recommendations, please come

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and talk to me.
You can have students who maybe

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that this one reminds me of 20%
time where it's a passion

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project that students love.
And you can do that in your

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classrooms where you get 20%
time for students to invest in a

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hobby that they like and they
become the experts on and then

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they can share about that to the
class.

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So that's just a fun way to get
to know students and have them

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get to know each other.
And then as students leave, just

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be like, hey, really nice job
today.

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I really like how you
participated or you showed up

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today.
It really matters.

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Something like that.
As students leave, you can just

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say something really quiet and
meaningful to them.

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So the biggest take away for me
from the attacks by Lee Cockrell

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was don't leave these moments to
chance.

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Make it a habit.
Look for those things who

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haven't you connected with this
week.

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Keep a note or a tally that
shows, hey, did every student

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get noticed this week, this
month?

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These moments of belonging and
value can really help a student

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who's struggling or just might
need to be noticed.

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And these take fives are a great
way to do that.

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So in his book Lee Cockerel
shares, Disney's magic isn't

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magic at all.
It's the intentional, trained

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behavior of people who decided
that every guest deserves to

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feel like the most important
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So what if every teacher walked
in their classroom tomorrow

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asking who in this room needs me
to take 5 today?

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It's not extra.
It's what we do as teachers.

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So I hope you take that
challenge.

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Take 5 this week, see who you
can notice intentionally and

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just share that with them.
Make them feel like they're the

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most important person in the
room.

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Make them feel I see you and you
matter.

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Guess what friends?
If no one's told you today, you

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matter and I appreciate you
listening.

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Today's episode.
Have a fabulous day and remember

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you have the edge of magic
within you.

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Bye for now.
And there you have it, Edu

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Magicians.
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Until next time you have the Edu
Magic within you.