Unleashing Hearts: Transforming Education for Neurodivergent Students “ seeing in color” 🌈🎶🐈🐈‍⬛

So, you know, one thing in the United States that I have noticed that’s different than some other countries is we have a very interesting definition of what a teacher is in the United States and our value for such a person. This concept is to kind of chat about the realities of education so we can start to address what we can do to help our students, what we can do to make a difference. The first thing is lots of school systems, particularly when it comes to learning disabilities and children who think differently, just do not offer the resources, the tools, and the training that is necessary to help a child who sees in color. It’s true. School systems are about money. School systems are about the cycle of continuing the financial ramifications that benefit a building. And the students who are convenient and fit that checklist are the ones who get opportunity. A lot of the time, I don’t think there would be a debate with anybody saying that school systems who pay their teachers don’t pay them enough. And then once a year we have teacher appreciation, where the coffee cups come out and everybody remembers for a moment remembering either a teacher who really made their lives better, just stayed in kind of the middle and really you don’t even remember their name or what they taught you. And then those teachers that many times by accident, by lack of training, by lack of understanding, put a hippocampus memory in their minds and a seed that started to grow self doubt, self deprecation and believing that they will always be broken. So as I start to put this idea together, that idea, this program to together that, if you’ve known me long enough, you know, I have been building Unleash the Hearts academies for forever now. And one of the reasons I have is because of the teacher that I remember. And I remember how he looked outside, what things looked like and listened inside to my voice. And that teacher was the reason why I got a chance to get off the list of students who were just waiting to graduate in the special education system. Those kids that you have in your classroom that send sit in the back and always have dirty clothes and maybe don’t always smell great because there isn’t a lot of personal hygiene going on in their house, that wear sunglasses because they’re hiding the fact that they have another black eye. And how many times can you say to a teacher, you fell down? That teacher took me out of the equation of having to be that student anymore. And I’m very happy to tell you all about him at our next Unleash the Hearts Academy class, because I really believe that while there are not a lot of financial resources. I believe in our private classrooms we can be listening for those students who think in color, who don’t have a box that they live in because they’ve always colored outside the lines to encourage those students who do to create things that are as great as Plato, Einstein, Hedy Lamar, the iconic Helen Keller and her teacher.There are so many, and that’s what these classes are about. And it’s not just about learning disability support. It’s about acknowledging that personalized education is almost impossible to do in school systems because it calls for an entirely different mindset on how we teach our children. But in our private classrooms, private, particularly my fellow music teachers, I believe that I can teach you how to reach them. And I’m going to start with my own studio and giving them a chance to have these personalized education plans and bringing them to life for every purpose from processing disorders to the blind shall hear and the deaf shall see ASD and the borderline miracles that have happened with breath. Regarding the designs I have created to reconnect it after COVID 19. I’m doing this because I believe that what I’ve been doing with my life for the last 20 years was never about money. It was never about prestige. It was about that I cared and so did that teacher from 23 years ago. Let’s start finding those children that we so called not left behind when I was a child. Let’s train our teachers one on one. If it’s necessary to see the talents and the possibilities that we are just sometimes leaving to just thrive on their own and hope for the best. Let’s unleash the hearts. Let’s teach them to sing and relax.☺️