Real-Estate+Test

=**Real-Estate Test** =  Hey teacher-educator person, are you developing the kind of neighbor you would like living in the house next door?

At some point in time, the house beside you will come up for sale. If the option were yours, who would you want to buy that house and become your neighbor? The reality is that the choice of buyer will come down to who meets (or beats) the list price. Think of some of the students who have been marginalized by the school system. Based on how the individual was treated as a student, will you be comfortable having him or her as your neighbor when he or she grows up to be an adult?

//Eventually, students become adults.//

//Have you helped them to become the kind of people you want living on your street, or working at the garage fixing your car, or cooking at the local restaurant preparing your meal, or coming back to school and teaching your kids?//

Those of us who work in schools have a tremendous opportunity to impact the lives of so many kids. An elementary teacher over the course of her thirty-year career can make close personal connections with almost 1,000 kids in her care. A middle or high school teacher can come in direct contact with up to 200 or 300 kids per year, or upwards of 9,000 kids over a thirty-year career. We touch the lives of enough people to build whole villages or small towns. Collectively we build a nation. The real joy of this profession lies not in predicting the future, but in creating it. Hierck, T, Coleman, C, & Weber, C. (2011)., //Pyramid of Behavior Interventions: Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment//. Solution Tree 