An Educator’s Guide to Pressing RESET
Jan 19, 2025
On my first day of Kindergarten I didn’t know the rules of school. I’m not sure how I could have known them, being it was my first day, but nonetheless I got in trouble and I was made an example for all the class to see. By the way, for context I was and probably still am to some extent a HUGE rule follower. So, this was quite sobering for my five-year-old self and it made a lasting impression.
Anyway, I had just gotten off my very first school bus ride, was ushered to my very first class room and told to sit on the floor. The room was full of new kids that I’d never seen before. Instantly I struck up a conversation with a couple of my new friends and we naturally started acting like horses and bulls. Then, a bell rung. I noticed it, but I didn’t understand it had a meaning. So, I continued to practice my equine movements. Apparently, this angered my new Kindergarten teacher. She yelled at me, stood me up in front of the class, threatened me with a yard stick and said she couldn’t believe she had a trouble maker on the first day of school.
I was mortified.
Thank you, Mrs. Harris.
A year later, in First Grade, my mom came in for a parent-teacher conference. My teacher told my mom that I was a good student but I couldn’t keep still in my chair and I squirmed a lot. This was news to me. And it wounded me. I’m trying to follow the rules - the rules that my Kindergarten teacher seemed to highly value, and now I find out in front of my mom that I’m missing the mark.
Thank you, Mrs. Leslie.
I was a rule follower. I didn’t want to get in trouble. I didn’t want to let my teachers or my parents down. I hated getting sad faces drawn on my “work”, especially when I didn’t really know the rules to my doing my “work.” It may not surprise you to know, that I became a Straight A Student - every year, in every grade, even through college. A’s, Honors, quiet, and disciplined - that was me. I did go through a rebellious stage around the age of 16, but that wasn’t me as much as it was the flood of testosterone. That was a new learning curve for me.
Anyway, looking back, I’m certain school wasn’t set up for me. It was set up to try to break me, much like a cowboy tries to break a wild horse. We are designed to move, to imagine, and to explore. And that is how we are designed to learn. That not only builds our minds, but it builds our souls. We cannot separate ourselves from ourselves. Our bodies, minds, and souls are build together. They flourish together. And, they also shrink together. We are not designed to learn through the threat of fear or through the silence of stillness. These things inhibit our growth and hinder our emotional development. They make true learning nearly impossible while they encourage “learning benchmarks” that last only as long as the moment they are met. Once met, they fade away.
Children learn through movement, curiosity, encouragement, confidence and love, Our education systems, at least the public ones aren’t really set up for this. This is not the fault of the teachers, it’s a fault of the systems. Teachers are saints. Even Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Leslie were saints. They were just sticking to the rules of the systems they were working in. I was a victim of that, but so were they. Teachers really want to teach. They really want to help children GROW and develop. They just maybe don’t have all the tools and the framework within their systems to help their students optimally.
This is one of the reasons we have developed an Educator’s Guide to Pressing RESET curriculum. We know learning and growth happens through movement. We know emotional regulation and intelligence happen when the brain does not perceive threats or stressors. We know that learning is a whole body event and everything about the body’s design, our ability to grow and flourish come, when our design’s needs are met.
If you are a teacher, if you are a parent, if you are a student, you need to know that we are all designed to be brilliantly creative and logical. We are designed to flourish in body, mind, and soul; to solve problems, create solutions, fill needs, support others, and contribute to the betterment of the world. The classroom should be the place where this foundation for learning and whole being growth happens. And it can be. Just as we are not designed to be weak in body, we are not designed to be weak in mind and soul. We can heal. We can grow at any age. And, we can do it through living in our design and Pressing RESET on our bodies, minds, and souls.
In an Educator’s Guide to Pressing RESET, we are sharing this information. We are designed to learn. Always.
#neverbroken
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