Episode 309: "Ain't Gonna Stifle Student Voices" with Matt Capriola - a podcast by Amy Perras

Introductions

1:48 Innocent Stories

2:13 Book reference: A Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart

2:28 Compliant vs reaching our potential

2:49 Matt’s Innocent Tiger Story - age 8

4:00 Comedy in the “tragic” moments of life

5:33 Remote learning stifled voices without realizing it

6:14 Masks and projecting our voices

6:30 Masks and the smile

7:26 Speak Up

7:46 Theatre vocal exercises

8:30 Empowering student voices by reading their writing in front of the class.

9:00 Main Dish: Misdiagnosis: Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children

9:41  The Genius Child by Langston Hughes

10:10 Soul rape at school

10:27 Glorifying genius can also backfire

10:43 the burden of genius/giftedness

11:07 take care of yourself-don’t try to be perfect

11:29 1. Gifted and undiagnosed learning disability, 2. Severe learning disabilities but highly gifted elsewhere. 3. Majority: Learning disability masked their giftedness, average but performing below their gifted level.

13:44 Elevating Student Voices in Education

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2019/08/14/473197/elevating-s tudent-voice-education/

14:00 Elevating Student Voices (Allyship) https://www.greatschoolspartnership.org/empowering-students-to-use-their-voice/

15:34 Vulnerability is key when working with people, teenager, to break down these walls.

16:00 We are there to serve.

16:29 Share your own struggles, show our failures

17:00 What do you need right now?

17:21 Self-efficacy

19:00 Deepening Student Voice - Open Mic representing ALL students https://www.ascd.org/blogs/deepening-student-voice-and-empowerment

19:44 Voices that are stifled and we don’t fit in that box.

20:31 Tiger metaphor

21:21 What’s really happening with our students? ASK!!

22:22 Empowering solutions by disrupting the inequities of the school.

23:02 What identity do you want to learn more about

23:21 Social-emotional learning should be a part of every class.

23:49 Empower vs. stifle - less conflict

24:17 “Empowering student voices transform the learning from being an observer to being an initiator”

25:38 When we disagree, doesn’t make our point invalid

25:50 Look past ourselves, there is still more work to be done.

26:20 Create a safe environment or students won’t share

Additional Sources:

National Speech and Debate

https://www.speechanddebate.org/explore-membership-students/

Additional Sources:  

National Speech and Debate 

https://www.speechanddebate.org/explore-membership-students/

Where Can I Find Matt? 

Twitter: @MrCapriolaOLCHS 

Charities: aidschicago.org and chicagolandlabrescue.org

Where Can I Find Amy?   

www.amyperras.com   

Linkedin: Amy Perras   

Twitter: @perras_scope   

IG @aintgonnabenostupid   

Tik Tok @aintgonnabenostupid   

Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid Woman (Book)   

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YouTube: Ain't Gonna Be No Stupid  

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Coaching Session  https://tinyurl.com/perrasscoping

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