September 29, 2025 • 15 mins
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MJ vs. Lebron- It's not even close!!! We explore the concept of becoming a "generational teacher" - an educator whose impact extends beyond a single academic year to influence generations of students through meaningful connections and holistic teaching approaches.
• Go big with your ideas - don't be afraid to rock the boat for a greater cause
• Help make great human beings, not just athletes - focus on developing character alongside skills
• Build relationships that matter - learn names, have fun with students, and show genuine interest
• Leave a legacy of impact - teach from the heart and care about your students as your own
Happy teaching,
Dave
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hello and welcome to the Super Size for Zed podcast.
My name is Dave and today let'stalk generational talent, more
specifically, being agenerational teacher.
What is it and how do we becomeit?
Well, let's find out Withoutfurther ado.
Here we go.
Welcome in PE Nation.
(00:45):
So first off, again, Iappreciate everybody listening
in.
When I've been looking recentlyat some new places and just
countries that have beenlistening to this podcast, I
again I'm blown away.
I know I've said that a littlebit recently, but I really do
mean it.
I think I'm listening, orpeople are listening, from 99
(01:07):
different countries and I needthat hundred.
Come on, come on, spread theword, spread the word, let's go.
But I really do appreciate itand I don't take that lightly.
My goal is always is to providehopefully good, positive, you
know teaching strategies andtips and maybe inspire you in
(01:28):
some way, and that's what I'mgoing to do today.
I hope, hopefully.
So this one is definitely moreof an less tactical and more
just how we live our lives, Iguess, as teachers, and so this
made me think about thisgenerational thing I'm going to
talk about today how to be agenerational teacher.
(01:49):
Well, my son cracks me up.
He's funny, he's 15 and a half.
He's big into sports now,especially the NBA and the NFL.
I am not really an NBA fan.
I used to be.
I mean I watch it a little bitbecause of him, but definitely
more I'm definitely NFL and he'sjust funny.
(02:11):
He always talks about thesegenerational players and I've
never really heard that termuntil I don't know past five
years, I don't even know.
And him and I debate all thetime about sports.
It's kind of funny, even know,and him and I debate all the
time about sports.
It's kind of funny.
So, first of all, he thinks thatanyone who played basketball or
(02:32):
football in the, I guess in theeighties or seventies or
whenever he calls them plumbers,he's like oh, they were just
plumbers.
They weren't you know thesetremendous athletes, they were
just it was like a part-time jobfor them, like you know.
I mean you're talking aboutlike Hall of Famers like Will
Chamberlain and some of theseguys 60s, 70s, 80s I guess and
he's like, well, compared totoday's players and the
(02:53):
competition wasn't as strong andeverything like that.
And of course he's wrong aboutthat.
He just won't listen to it.
He's a good kid but he's veryhard-headed when it comes to
this.
And we debate the MichaelJordan and LeBron thing
constantly and I like to getunder his skin actually.
So I mean, come on, michaelJordan's the greatest of all
time.
Just let's stop right there.
(03:14):
And he gets really upset aboutit.
So I'll send him theseInstagram or whatever YouTube
clips and things like that toback it up with stats and things
.
And I've seen Michael Jordanplay in person just once, but I
mean he was amazing and so it'sjust kind of funny.
We go back and forth on this.
So, anyways, recently we'vedebated the term generational.
(03:37):
So what is a generationalplayer?
And that's really what we'vebeen debating.
I would think that agenerational player only comes
around once in a you know,generation, right?
Um, and I came up with somefrom the sports world um,
definitely wayne gretzky in thein hockey, michael jordan, nba
I'm saying there's differentpositions, but tom brady in the
(03:59):
nfl, uh, clayton kershaw inbaseball, I'd say mike trout,
there's other, there's a.
I mean there's a lot indifferent sports, different
positions.
Lionel Messi in soccer, and Idon't know much about soccer, so
you can debate me or whatever,I don't know that much about
soccer, but I know he's the oneright now and these players
change the game and we're thebest at their positions.
(04:19):
But I hear this generationalterm a lot nowadays.
Not every player can bedestined for greatness.
Only the best of the bestshould hold this title.
So I was thinking about this ineducation.
I mean, do you want to be agenerational teacher?
Do you want to inspire a legionof students for years and years
, helping them reach theirhighest potential?
Do you want to be known as thegoat in your field, the greatest
(04:40):
of all time?
Well, I do, and here's our planon becoming generational.
I'm going to give you four waysto become generational and
let's make this a boomer.
Here we go.
Number one is go big with yourideas, and I'm an idea guy.
That's the good news.
(05:01):
The bad news is I'm not alwaysthe best at the details.
I've had a lot of great ideasthat hit and a lot of it missed.
I've hit with my grant writing,some of the equipment I brought
to my school.
You know other things like that, my chute ball tournament.
That's been a big hit.
I've missed with trying toimplement some new things into
my program.
That didn't work or theadministration was like, yeah,
(05:22):
no, um.
The key is to keep going, and Iactually I'm not kidding you.
Yesterday I said this to myprincipal because I'm trying to
get my um and I'll I can lookthis in the show notes my next
level leadership program goingwhere I do like almost like a
martial arts system where it'slike belts but it's really
wristbands, and I literally saidthat to her yesterday.
(05:43):
I'm like I'm a big idea guy andI'm sorry Sometimes I miss the
details.
That's me, but I'm going tokeep going and she appreciates
that.
She said well, I want people tothink outside the box, I want
new ideas and I appreciate herfor saying that.
But I will say this don't beafraid to rock the boat for a
greater cause.
If you know what you're doingwill benefit your students, in
(06:04):
the end it's worth it.
Your students will alwaysremember what you did for them.
You know way after you leftyour school and you know you can
be a bit of a troublemaker.
I'm not saying in a really badway, I'm just saying like a you
know, rock the boat a little bit, try some new ideas, try some
new things.
Sometimes it's better asked forforgiveness than permission.
It's worth it to go big withyour ideas.
(06:25):
Just don't tell them I put youup to it.
That's number one.
Number two is help make greathuman beings, not just athletes,
and this is my mantra.
I don't really have a mantra,but if I had one, this would be
it.
As a PE teacher, it's my job,it's your job, to teach skills
(06:45):
and instill knowledge.
You know, of course I want mystudents to know about healthy
food choices, how to ride a bike, how to throw and catch, how to
kick a ball.
You know we do all this stuff,of course, the skills, the
strategies, the tactics.
But if that's all I'm teaching,I'm missing the point.
I want to help children becomebetter people.
I mean, that's just the bottomline.
To make mistakes, learn fromthem, to apologize after they
(07:08):
hurt somebody, to say please andthank you, to resolve conflicts
with their peers, to win andlose with grace Of course that's
a big one.
To help others on their team,to be a kind human being.
That's it, I mean.
It's, of course, more than that.
Our job is everything included,but that's that's the biggest
thing.
You know, I've said this a lotto my students in the past.
(07:28):
By the way, I've I've said tothem you know, if one of you
becomes a famous athlete, I'llbe just ecstatic, I'll be so
happy.
I'll watch you on TV, I'll rootfor you every game.
The odds are really slim.
No, I didn't say that to them.
I don't think.
But I always tell them to reachfor their dreams.
So not everyone's going tobecome a famous athlete, but
everybody in my class can becomean amazing adult, an amazing
(07:51):
human being, and I'm not sayingit's all me.
I'm just saying I can helpfacilitate the process.
Of course, their parents, theirfriends, their mentors in their
lives.
I'm not saying it's all me, butI'm saying I can facilitate
helping them become an amazingperson, an amazing adult that
contributes to society.
Well, contributes is a hardword to say Contributes to
society.
(08:11):
You know I will root for themalways in that way, and that is
number two.
Number three is buildrelationships that matter, and
one of the things that Istruggle with the most is
knowing students' names, and Iknow it sounds terrible, but how
can you build a relationship ifyou don't even know their name?
(08:31):
And I struggle with this always.
I always struggle with this.
My school has almost a thousandstudents.
My former school had more thanthat.
As a PE teacher, I see them alland you know I don't see them
like one class at a time.
I see three to four classes ata time, so my brain doesn't have
room to fit a thousandstudents' names on a rotating
(08:53):
basis.
You know, yearly I get, I losemy fifth graders, I gain new
kindergartners.
It's hard and I try my best.
I play games that we do, likename games.
I study the yearbooks.
I ask students to remind me.
I'm like hey, what's that kid'sname?
Again, he's new this year.
You know that kind of thing anda lot of times I mean it sticks
, but sometimes it doesn't.
(09:13):
I work really hard at it, butone of the key things is to know
their names and startconnecting with them.
So here's some things I'mfocusing on.
Yes, learning their names isnumber one.
Number two is having fun withthem.
Just have fun with the kids.
Play the games with them.
Don't just stand there and say,hey, go do 10 jumping jacks.
Do the jumping jacks with them.
(09:34):
Have fun with them.
Unless you physically can't, Iget it, but if you can
physically do it, you know walkthe walk, show them.
You know silliness.
Have fun, ask them questions.
You know about their lives.
You know go go to functions andyou know little league games.
And you know my, my kids playsports so I see a lot of my
(09:54):
students out and about, you know, at flag football and that kind
of thing.
So you know it's it's nice tosee them out there and talk to
their families and just get toknow them as people and not just
you know students that come inand out for 40 or 50 minutes.
Show them that you care aboutthem as as people as well.
Like you know again, ask themabout their weekends, ask them
(10:14):
what they did and I know youcan't do that Like I can't do
that with I don't know 90 to 100students at a time, but you
know I do try to connect withdifferent students as much as I
can in the hallways, you know,before class, after class,
things like that.
Tell them what you're interestedin.
My students know that I'm fromBuffalo, new York, originally,
and Buffalo Bills are my team.
(10:35):
The Buffalo Bills aredefinitely my team and all my
well.
The little students, theyounger students, probably don't
really get it, but you know myolder students they know it,
they'll be like Coach.
You know we're going to playyou tonight Because it was just
recently the Miami Dolphinsversus the Bills a couple nights
ago and we won.
But you know a lot of thestudents are Miami Dolphins fans
(10:57):
, so it'll be like, you know,just fun rivalry stuff.
You know, tell them what you'reinterested in and I'm
interested in more than that, bythe way.
And the last one is, you know,give them high fives, fist bumps
, hugs.
You know, just make them seethat you care.
You know, help them to see thatyou're not just there for the
paycheck, you care about them aspeople.
(11:17):
Kids are perceptive.
They know, you know, mydaughter she's in middle school
now my son's in high school.
They know the teachers thatcare and the teachers that are
just there for, you know,summer's off, they know.
So show them that you care.
And that is number three.
Number four is leave a legacyof impact.
(11:41):
Now, I waited to do this podcastbecause when I originally I
wrote an article this is anarticle, I'll put the show notes
and when I originally wrote thearticle, it was 9-11.
It was last week.
It was, let's see, today is the20th, so it's been a little bit
.
So it's been a little bit.
And, as everyone knows,thousands of people died 24
(12:03):
years ago from a senseless,violent act really more than one
act of innocent Americans, andI'll never forget that day and
the pain and the hatred I felt,and I'm ashamed to say that, but
it's true.
So Charlie Kirk died September10th and you know again, if
(12:25):
people get mad at me for this,I'm sorry.
I'm just going to say this Iloved watching his videos.
He always debated people withgrace and kindness and, yes, he
tried to prove a point, but hewas always kind to people when
he did it and gave them grace,showed them grace, and he was a
loving husband and father.
And he was assassinated and Iwish I never saw the video of
(12:46):
his death, but I did.
I can't get it out of my head,by the way.
I can't.
It'll haunt me forever.
He was a good man who didn'tdeserve his fate and even if you
don't agree with his politics,he had two little kids and a
wife and millions of people whocared about him.
Maybe we didn't know him, butyou know, cared and you know
(13:07):
whether you agree with him ornot, it was a senseless,
terrible act.
And you know I wasn't evengoing to talk about all this
because I know people againlisten from different places,
even in the world, and you mightnot agree with this at all even
in the world and you might notagree with anything at all, um,
but you know I his life wastaken in like a split second.
(13:31):
I mean, he, he was on, he wastalking and all of a sudden he
was dead and it was just likethat's going to haunt me forever
.
Um, it still does.
It's nine days later.
I still can't stop thinkingabout it.
I think it's because I keepseeing the videos of him and his
wife together and him and hiskids together.
So it's not even about thepolitics, it's about him as a
person.
So it made me think of you know, when I retire or die, first I
(13:52):
want to be remembered as a kind,caring teacher who loved his
students.
I've made a lot of mistakes, alot of mistakes, and I'll
continue to do so until my timeis up, but hopefully I'll learn
from them and be the best personI can for these children.
I also want to be the besthusband and father to my
children.
You know I can't tell youexactly how to leave this legacy
of impact.
I just know, if you teach fromthe heart and you care about
(14:14):
your students and you love yourstudents as your own, you can't
go wrong, because your studentsneed you and that's how you
become generational.
And I won't even do a cowbelltip of the day that.
That is it.
I just um, sorry on a littledown note there, but that thing
just really bothered me.
It's been bothering me for overa week now and I just really
(14:38):
hope that you take time withyour family, your friends and
you know, reflect on what it isto be a generational teacher,
what it is to be a great, just ahuman being.
And, yeah, I'll leave you withthat.
I don't need to talk about myarticles and links and stuff
like that.
Just be a generational teacherby being a great human being to
(15:03):
others, and that is it.
Have a great day, like I said,week, weekend, whenever you
listen to this P Nation, I careabout you.
Whatever your politics are, itdoesn't matter, I don't care,
it's about humanity and I hopeyou have a great day, week,
weekend, whenever you listen tothis.
And, yes, let's keep pushingour profession forward.
Thank you.
Hello and welcome to the Super Size for Zed podcast.
My name is Dave and today let'stalk generational talent, more
specifically, being agenerational teacher.
What is it and how do we becomeit?
Well, let's find out Withoutfurther ado.
Here we go.
Welcome in PE Nation.
(00:45):
So first off, again, Iappreciate everybody listening
in.
When I've been looking recentlyat some new places and just
countries that have beenlistening to this podcast, I
again I'm blown away.
I know I've said that a littlebit recently, but I really do
mean it.
I think I'm listening, orpeople are listening, from 99
(01:07):
different countries and I needthat hundred.
Come on, come on, spread theword, spread the word, let's go.
But I really do appreciate itand I don't take that lightly.
My goal is always is to providehopefully good, positive, you
know teaching strategies andtips and maybe inspire you in
(01:28):
some way, and that's what I'mgoing to do today.
I hope, hopefully.
So this one is definitely moreof an less tactical and more
just how we live our lives, Iguess, as teachers, and so this
made me think about thisgenerational thing I'm going to
talk about today how to be agenerational teacher.
(01:49):
Well, my son cracks me up.
He's funny, he's 15 and a half.
He's big into sports now,especially the NBA and the NFL.
I am not really an NBA fan.
I used to be.
I mean I watch it a little bitbecause of him, but definitely
more I'm definitely NFL and he'sjust funny.
(02:11):
He always talks about thesegenerational players and I've
never really heard that termuntil I don't know past five
years, I don't even know.
And him and I debate all thetime about sports.
It's kind of funny, even know,and him and I debate all the
time about sports.
It's kind of funny.
So, first of all, he thinks thatanyone who played basketball or
(02:32):
football in the, I guess in theeighties or seventies or
whenever he calls them plumbers,he's like oh, they were just
plumbers.
They weren't you know thesetremendous athletes, they were
just it was like a part-time jobfor them, like you know.
I mean you're talking aboutlike Hall of Famers like Will
Chamberlain and some of theseguys 60s, 70s, 80s I guess and
he's like, well, compared totoday's players and the
(02:53):
competition wasn't as strong andeverything like that.
And of course he's wrong aboutthat.
He just won't listen to it.
He's a good kid but he's veryhard-headed when it comes to
this.
And we debate the MichaelJordan and LeBron thing
constantly and I like to getunder his skin actually.
So I mean, come on, michaelJordan's the greatest of all
time.
Just let's stop right there.
(03:14):
And he gets really upset aboutit.
So I'll send him theseInstagram or whatever YouTube
clips and things like that toback it up with stats and things
.
And I've seen Michael Jordanplay in person just once, but I
mean he was amazing and so it'sjust kind of funny.
We go back and forth on this.
So, anyways, recently we'vedebated the term generational.
(03:37):
So what is a generationalplayer?
And that's really what we'vebeen debating.
I would think that agenerational player only comes
around once in a you know,generation, right?
Um, and I came up with somefrom the sports world um,
definitely wayne gretzky in thein hockey, michael jordan, nba
I'm saying there's differentpositions, but tom brady in the
(03:59):
nfl, uh, clayton kershaw inbaseball, I'd say mike trout,
there's other, there's a.
I mean there's a lot indifferent sports, different
positions.
Lionel Messi in soccer, and Idon't know much about soccer, so
you can debate me or whatever,I don't know that much about
soccer, but I know he's the oneright now and these players
change the game and we're thebest at their positions.
(04:19):
But I hear this generationalterm a lot nowadays.
Not every player can bedestined for greatness.
Only the best of the bestshould hold this title.
So I was thinking about this ineducation.
I mean, do you want to be agenerational teacher?
Do you want to inspire a legionof students for years and years
, helping them reach theirhighest potential?
Do you want to be known as thegoat in your field, the greatest
(04:40):
of all time?
Well, I do, and here's our planon becoming generational.
I'm going to give you four waysto become generational and
let's make this a boomer.
Here we go.
Number one is go big with yourideas, and I'm an idea guy.
That's the good news.
(05:01):
The bad news is I'm not alwaysthe best at the details.
I've had a lot of great ideasthat hit and a lot of it missed.
I've hit with my grant writing,some of the equipment I brought
to my school.
You know other things like that, my chute ball tournament.
That's been a big hit.
I've missed with trying toimplement some new things into
my program.
That didn't work or theadministration was like, yeah,
(05:22):
no, um.
The key is to keep going, and Iactually I'm not kidding you.
Yesterday I said this to myprincipal because I'm trying to
get my um and I'll I can lookthis in the show notes my next
level leadership program goingwhere I do like almost like a
martial arts system where it'slike belts but it's really
wristbands, and I literally saidthat to her yesterday.
(05:43):
I'm like I'm a big idea guy andI'm sorry Sometimes I miss the
details.
That's me, but I'm going tokeep going and she appreciates
that.
She said well, I want people tothink outside the box, I want
new ideas and I appreciate herfor saying that.
But I will say this don't beafraid to rock the boat for a
greater cause.
If you know what you're doingwill benefit your students, in
(06:04):
the end it's worth it.
Your students will alwaysremember what you did for them.
You know way after you leftyour school and you know you can
be a bit of a troublemaker.
I'm not saying in a really badway, I'm just saying like a you
know, rock the boat a little bit, try some new ideas, try some
new things.
Sometimes it's better asked forforgiveness than permission.
It's worth it to go big withyour ideas.
(06:25):
Just don't tell them I put youup to it.
That's number one.
Number two is help make greathuman beings, not just athletes,
and this is my mantra.
I don't really have a mantra,but if I had one, this would be
it.
As a PE teacher, it's my job,it's your job, to teach skills
(06:45):
and instill knowledge.
You know, of course I want mystudents to know about healthy
food choices, how to ride a bike, how to throw and catch, how to
kick a ball.
You know we do all this stuff,of course, the skills, the
strategies, the tactics.
But if that's all I'm teaching,I'm missing the point.
I want to help children becomebetter people.
I mean, that's just the bottomline.
To make mistakes, learn fromthem, to apologize after they
(07:08):
hurt somebody, to say please andthank you, to resolve conflicts
with their peers, to win andlose with grace Of course that's
a big one.
To help others on their team,to be a kind human being.
That's it, I mean.
It's, of course, more than that.
Our job is everything included,but that's that's the biggest
thing.
You know, I've said this a lotto my students in the past.
(07:28):
By the way, I've I've said tothem you know, if one of you
becomes a famous athlete, I'llbe just ecstatic, I'll be so
happy.
I'll watch you on TV, I'll rootfor you every game.
The odds are really slim.
No, I didn't say that to them.
I don't think.
But I always tell them to reachfor their dreams.
So not everyone's going tobecome a famous athlete, but
everybody in my class can becomean amazing adult, an amazing
(07:51):
human being, and I'm not sayingit's all me.
I'm just saying I can helpfacilitate the process.
Of course, their parents, theirfriends, their mentors in their
lives.
I'm not saying it's all me, butI'm saying I can facilitate
helping them become an amazingperson, an amazing adult that
contributes to society.
Well, contributes is a hardword to say Contributes to
society.
(08:11):
You know I will root for themalways in that way, and that is
number two.
Number three is buildrelationships that matter, and
one of the things that Istruggle with the most is
knowing students' names, and Iknow it sounds terrible, but how
can you build a relationship ifyou don't even know their name?
(08:31):
And I struggle with this always.
I always struggle with this.
My school has almost a thousandstudents.
My former school had more thanthat.
As a PE teacher, I see them alland you know I don't see them
like one class at a time.
I see three to four classes ata time, so my brain doesn't have
room to fit a thousandstudents' names on a rotating
(08:53):
basis.
You know, yearly I get, I losemy fifth graders, I gain new
kindergartners.
It's hard and I try my best.
I play games that we do, likename games.
I study the yearbooks.
I ask students to remind me.
I'm like hey, what's that kid'sname?
Again, he's new this year.
You know that kind of thing anda lot of times I mean it sticks
, but sometimes it doesn't.
(09:13):
I work really hard at it, butone of the key things is to know
their names and startconnecting with them.
So here's some things I'mfocusing on.
Yes, learning their names isnumber one.
Number two is having fun withthem.
Just have fun with the kids.
Play the games with them.
Don't just stand there and say,hey, go do 10 jumping jacks.
Do the jumping jacks with them.
(09:34):
Have fun with them.
Unless you physically can't, Iget it, but if you can
physically do it, you know walkthe walk, show them.
You know silliness.
Have fun, ask them questions.
You know about their lives.
You know go go to functions andyou know little league games.
And you know my, my kids playsports so I see a lot of my
(09:54):
students out and about, you know, at flag football and that kind
of thing.
So you know it's it's nice tosee them out there and talk to
their families and just get toknow them as people and not just
you know students that come inand out for 40 or 50 minutes.
Show them that you care aboutthem as as people as well.
Like you know again, ask themabout their weekends, ask them
(10:14):
what they did and I know youcan't do that Like I can't do
that with I don't know 90 to 100students at a time, but you
know I do try to connect withdifferent students as much as I
can in the hallways, you know,before class, after class,
things like that.
Tell them what you're interestedin.
My students know that I'm fromBuffalo, new York, originally,
and Buffalo Bills are my team.
(10:35):
The Buffalo Bills aredefinitely my team and all my
well.
The little students, theyounger students, probably don't
really get it, but you know myolder students they know it,
they'll be like Coach.
You know we're going to playyou tonight Because it was just
recently the Miami Dolphinsversus the Bills a couple nights
ago and we won.
But you know a lot of thestudents are Miami Dolphins fans
(10:57):
, so it'll be like, you know,just fun rivalry stuff.
You know, tell them what you'reinterested in and I'm
interested in more than that, bythe way.
And the last one is, you know,give them high fives, fist bumps
, hugs.
You know, just make them seethat you care.
You know, help them to see thatyou're not just there for the
paycheck, you care about them aspeople.
(11:17):
Kids are perceptive.
They know, you know, mydaughter she's in middle school
now my son's in high school.
They know the teachers thatcare and the teachers that are
just there for, you know,summer's off, they know.
So show them that you care.
And that is number three.
Number four is leave a legacyof impact.
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Now, I waited to do this podcastbecause when I originally I
wrote an article this is anarticle, I'll put the show notes
and when I originally wrote thearticle, it was 9-11.
It was last week.
It was, let's see, today is the20th, so it's been a little bit
.
So it's been a little bit.
And, as everyone knows,thousands of people died 24
(12:03):
years ago from a senseless,violent act really more than one
act of innocent Americans, andI'll never forget that day and
the pain and the hatred I felt,and I'm ashamed to say that, but
it's true.
So Charlie Kirk died September10th and you know again, if
(12:25):
people get mad at me for this,I'm sorry.
I'm just going to say this Iloved watching his videos.
He always debated people withgrace and kindness and, yes, he
tried to prove a point, but hewas always kind to people when
he did it and gave them grace,showed them grace, and he was a
loving husband and father.
And he was assassinated and Iwish I never saw the video of
(12:46):
his death, but I did.
I can't get it out of my head,by the way.
I can't.
It'll haunt me forever.
He was a good man who didn'tdeserve his fate and even if you
don't agree with his politics,he had two little kids and a
wife and millions of people whocared about him.
Maybe we didn't know him, butyou know, cared and you know
(13:07):
whether you agree with him ornot, it was a senseless,
terrible act.
And you know I wasn't evengoing to talk about all this
because I know people againlisten from different places,
even in the world, and you mightnot agree with this at all even
in the world and you might notagree with anything at all, um,
but you know I his life wastaken in like a split second.
(13:31):
I mean, he, he was on, he wastalking and all of a sudden he
was dead and it was just likethat's going to haunt me forever
.
Um, it still does.
It's nine days later.
I still can't stop thinkingabout it.
I think it's because I keepseeing the videos of him and his
wife together and him and hiskids together.
So it's not even about thepolitics, it's about him as a
person.
So it made me think of you know, when I retire or die, first I
(13:52):
want to be remembered as a kind,caring teacher who loved his
students.
I've made a lot of mistakes, alot of mistakes, and I'll
continue to do so until my timeis up, but hopefully I'll learn
from them and be the best personI can for these children.
I also want to be the besthusband and father to my
children.
You know I can't tell youexactly how to leave this legacy
of impact.
I just know, if you teach fromthe heart and you care about
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your students and you love yourstudents as your own, you can't
go wrong, because your studentsneed you and that's how you
become generational.
And I won't even do a cowbelltip of the day that.
That is it.
I just um, sorry on a littledown note there, but that thing
just really bothered me.
It's been bothering me for overa week now and I just really
(14:38):
hope that you take time withyour family, your friends and
you know, reflect on what it isto be a generational teacher,
what it is to be a great, just ahuman being.
And, yeah, I'll leave you withthat.
I don't need to talk about myarticles and links and stuff
like that.
Just be a generational teacherby being a great human being to
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others, and that is it.
Have a great day, like I said,week, weekend, whenever you
listen to this P Nation, I careabout you.
Whatever your politics are, itdoesn't matter, I don't care,
it's about humanity and I hopeyou have a great day, week,
weekend, whenever you listen tothis.
And, yes, let's keep pushingour profession forward.
Thank you.
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