We LOVE you Australia
Collin complains about scheduling calls in Australia. Brandon learned about skating. Aaron is coaching. Content Warning: Boring history textbook discussion, You’ve been warned. The Main topic? Teaching independence and knowing what the end goal is. PLUS, imposter syndrome and second guessing ourselves.
Don’t move to Australia
Content UPDATE- roller skating
Infected with inline skating
Brandon had an idea
Things with wheels
Emu Wars..came out one year ago
Aaron is wrapping up job 1 and starting job 2
Fundamentals of coaching
8 man football...a lot to learn
Blah blah boring history book talk...or something
He’ll be getting up early...really early
Kids are swimming
Lillian is in 1st grade!!
Getting bored and counting…
Especially on road trips
27+48...how do you add these?
Teaching different ways to problem solve
Math with dad! - WHAT?!?!?
Analogy of learning...shoe tying
Paint a Monet
Know the ending!!
Timeline to independence!
Feeling of inadequacy
Who is Aaron’s new friend?
Imposter syndrome is very real
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Collin, Aaron
Collin 00:04
Welcome to Oh, brother, podcast of three brothers. Trying to figure it all out with your hosts, Brandon, Collin. And Aaron. On this week's show, we love you, Australia. Look, I'm just going to say this. If either of you ever moved to Australia, I am out as far as scheduling these kind of calls. Because that i'll come on knowing it's fine. It's fine and
00:35
no don't know scheduling calls. People who live in Australia is like, not cool. Like the opposite of Australia is so cool.
Collin 00:48
I mean, like it's gonna hot. Okay, it doesn't get very high was there in the winter? So like, I can't speak to that. Yeah. Which it is, it does get real hot and I don't like hot.
01:02
So they also have about a million murder things that live on or near the ground.
Collin 01:07
You know, I saw none of them. Because you were fine. During the winter, but they're all right. Well, yeah, but like, I'm still there for like a long time. Do you think is great? Hello, Australians. Hello, what's going? I don't know. Can I ask that question? While I die now, this latest information? How's it going?
01:37
I go, Why Collin gives us an update for our listeners dance. What's going on? I'll share that on air. We don't want to shame anybody who's not listening. Right.
Collin 01:54
I need to start out with an update. Okay. The content update from a couple weeks ago, right. When we talking about rollerskating? Yes. Right. I believe wobbly wheels was that. So it's called came out this week. Right? I listened to that. This is another indication This is another one of those times where like, I guess it was on my mind. And that one internet rule that I can't remember came into effect plus, like Google must have heard me. Right. Because I have discovered that at least the inline skating community online is doing well. Right. It's alive. Yeah, it's around. Right. So I'd like you to YouTube, like all of a sudden, I don't know if it's because I was looking at that web page about roller skating. Right. But like I got all these like good lines, skate and infected like, video recommendations. And so obviously, I watched them. So I did not know. I was I was educated, educating myself this week on skates and skating. Much more to it than when I was a kid. Right? I just was like, hey, those are skates. No, no, no, no many different types of skates. Many different components of skating, right styles good for different disciplines of skating? Who knew not me that too. So? I apologize to all the skating enthusiasts who are out there listening like screaming at their speakers, like what did it is? Alright, alright, I've done my work. I know now. It's pretty addicting watching some of these videos. Like, there's dudes that just like free skate through like city environments, which is super awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Like freestyle inline skating. They just like skating around the city. Like, it's really it's just really enjoyable to watch this. There's a couple channels that do that. There's some guys that like, aren't like downhill. Right? They're like Hill bombing? On in Lionsgate, which is, it's one of the more terrifying things I've ever seen. I'm out on that one. Like, people that do like speed skating, right, like just all about like, How fast can I skate? Like in a race? Yeah, it's pretty awesome. So like, I may have to buy some skates. I don't know. Don't quote me on that one. But like I'm breaking spine, spine, elbow helmet to It's okay. We're all down here to helmet right. I don't want to. It's fine. I don't it's okay. I'm old now. So I probably do need a helmet, right if you get an idea, but maybe a knee brace, right? Yeah. A little wrist guards. So I'm not turning out. I'll go. I'll call him mode. Right But let me guard. Yeah, but some of those watching some of the shows gate looks like super fun. Like, I could go to the park and just skied what I I don't know if I would, but I could, like right by the door and go. It's feasible to do that I could do for those things like, Oh, I could totally do that. Would I do it though? Hard to know. Like, in theory, it sounds like a great idea. Right? But I don't know what I put that idea into practice great ideas. You know, really the direction I that's a great idea I was talking about. You have an idea. Are you good? Now our park is got like this big giant like flat area. And the road goes in like a track. It's like a circle. You could just like, scan around through there. Because scan little pathways. It'd be cool. Because that one monster Hill. So when I watched too many of those Hill bombing videos to be like, Yo, I got this. It's fine. We don't tell Susan about it. And then we just like go down. She would murder me if I didn't. And please have some entertainment. Yeah. Looking at my road rash. Oh, man. Look at now. I saw I have a leather jacket here somewhere. I get this find that inline skates where you're like x game style just. Yeah. Great. can tell the so yeah, I've been doing internet research into the world of inline and just quad roller skating. That is also still a thing. Right? People do that. So they go. Here's the content update. Ladies, Gentlemen, before we started skating update, I will update you further. If and when I decided to buy some roller skates. So don't look for that update anytime soon. But on my muse, I texted Susan and let her know. It's fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it. That summer board has really hit you hard this year. Man. Yeah, you know. She's back at work. Shane has been working in summer school such as instead of wandering around to the Dave. Yeah, yeah. Looking at watching skating videos. pretty great. So because, of course, the progression went. Like I got on this inline skate thing, right? And then that that led to some like, downhill longboarding? Oh, those are like skateboarding or cool like, yo, holy cow. Also never doing that. Okay, like never like I'm out. So fast. No, no way. Reminds me. You mentioned that the inline skaters going through city streets reminds me whenever I was looking at people who rode singlespeed. Pick, you know, pick these. Yeah, through San Francisco hills. Just blitzing golf. Yeah, those videos are crazy to flying around the corners and going in between traffic. Like, Oh, yeah. I don't know how low gear you have on your backlog to hit some of those hills in San Francisco. Like, like, how big is that thing? Because, like on the track that back here is like 1514. Right. But for those monster hills, like 19, please leave your 25 to bigger than your front. chainring 40. thing? Yeah, no, a lot of those guys just kept them as a 19. Or maybe they got 21. And you just see him being literally standing up, not moving going like or they'd be particularly very, very serpentine path up the hill. That's true. Many many switchback. See, I think that's also a scam because I also watched some of those, but it's the guy who does it in New York, right? There's a guy that does it in New York, and I watched those videos a lot because they're like, simultaneously relaxing. And, like, anxiety inducing. It's really weird. Like, especially the ones were he does, he's following people. Right? So he'll have like the camera like on his chest or his helmet or whatever. And he's like following somebody else that's riding a track bike through Manhattan. And it's like, oh my god. It's like, so cool to watch and also like those are fun. Yes. So I've been watching wheeled things with wheels this week. That's what I've been. I've been looking at things with wheels on the hands like a music album Noah would be listening to on Amazon. Yes, he listens to some in the world of construction, equipment, themed music and songs. It's a lot more varied than I originally. I was not expecting that to be a category. We'll know. They'll seem like a song about the dump truck. And the song about the excavator about bulldozer. And many of them will have like the sound of one operating in the background, or like on site at a construction site. Nice. Yeah, it's pretty cool. There we go. He likes them a lot. There we go. That's all he all literally all he listens to on for music. That's hilarious. He loved it. It's just gonna next it's just gonna be like sound the construction site, just like he was like ambient music tracks, but it's just like a bulldozer. Perfect. On the other day, we were I connected the phone to the car, and his music and it got to one and he was like, This is my favorite. And it was I think it was a song that was like, about a dump truck. And the guy was just kind of like not like, not really singing but like big singing. I don't know. Where it was just about, like what it does on the construction site. It was like, Well, there you go, like, there. Yeah, he was gonna get him to watch that. What's that old discovery show that like mega movers, right? Where you just like they have the they just like those big trucks and loaders and stuff. And they move like really massive objects like houses and the space shuttle and all that stuff. Right? You start watching those, those random shows? Where there's like those those quarry dropping dump trucks that are like 70 million feet tall. Yeah. I don't remember what those exact player called. But they're just like, they're like a dump truck. But they're a normal. Yes. No. Right. Like the one at the end of that Jackie Chan movie. And he drives through the house. Remember? It's like, yeah, yeah. And there's a category of them. That I just trying to remember what these are called. super big thing, I think. Yeah, they're named. They're made by a couple different ones. There's like tetrax and Caterpillar one is like the 7000s. So I only know this obviously, like obviously.
13:20
World's Largest contract. Yeah. Yeah.
Collin 13:26
Yeah, just a bunch of shows us that he just sold there. I've been trying to find the old versions of how it's made. Because I would I need to put those on loop.
Aaron 13:40
I was just thinking about like, the history kind of like the modern Marvels. And like, how it was made and stuff like that. Like that's what I was thinking of, you know,
Collin 13:50
modern Marvel's underrated TV show you right here and I don't they took it off because clearly I guess it was under rating but like, I was really a few years ago, they they used to have two history channels, right? They had the History Channel and they had like, h two whatever that like the history channels where they had all their like, you know, dumb shows like aliens built the pyramids, all that garbage. But then like on the hit the second channel, it was just all just like they would have like, the modern Marvel's like marathons. It was great. Yeah, just like watch the at the one about like, I liked the ones about tools. Right. I don't know why. Not like a tool the guy? Yeah, just like, Oh, this is like the history of hammers. You're like, yes, yes. Let's watch that are like axes like, Okay, I'm in like, I was gonna watch this. And they would do things with like, they wouldn't just be out. They'd be like, the 10 tools that change the west or you know, things like that. We're all yeah, those are good to catch. But it's one of those things where like to tie it back to the roller skating thing, right? Like, you know, you're like, Oh, it's an X. Or like, Oh, it's just an inline skate. Apparently, no, it was like 7 billion different types of inline skates that are good at certain things. axes are the same way. Right? It's one of those things that you like, once you get into it. There's like a weird topology of like, all these different things. And they're like some axes are only good for like this one job. You have all these like specialty tools and stuff like that. It's very, that's that that rabbit hole I find extremely interesting. And I fall into it like really hard with certain subjects. I'm like, Oh, yes, let me let's, let's let's let us hear about the 7000 different types of hammer. I'm interested in now I'm, let's let's go for it. Like, like, I will fall into that, like, so hard. For whatever it is, if the thing grabs my interest, I'm, that's where I'm going. I'm like, tell me tell me about all the different types. That's why I watched all those skate videos like, okay, that's an aggressive inline skate. That's a freestyle skate. That's a speed skate. That's this one. Like, these have different wheel sizes, the rails are different. The boot construction is different. This one's like, boom, I'm like, see, this is what? I fall like real hard. So it's. Which means like, a lot of those hobbies, like I can't get into, because I'd be like, yeah, I need seven pairs of rollerskates. Obviously, that's why. Well, cuz Yeah, cuz you'll be like, well, I can't, there's no, I don't want to get an all rounder, because what if I really need to cornering all of us? Or that's true? Super fast. Although, generally, the allrounders the good. That's a good entry point. Well, yeah. And then, like, based on what you notice, you go, Oh, I need one that's better at this thing. Oh, look, it exists. And it's right here, too. Because I have so many guitars, right. Like, some of them, like are good for some things. Like this one is good for certain things. This one's good for other stuff, right? Like, they have different sound characteristics. So like, I'm susceptible to this behavior. By it's my curse, it's fine. It's okay. makes it fun, though, you know? Yeah. So, yeah, I do that a lot. So that's, yeah, it's really interesting. I like those shows a lot. Those are really fun. There's like, there's another one. I like to how it's made. Well, yeah. But the modern Marvel ones are cool. Tried forgotten about that one. I'll have to see if I can find it until Aaron brought up thank you. Aaron. We in?
17:53
Yes.
Collin 17:56
Update. No listeners in Australia. Right after work on that market. Okay, what kind of things or helps break into the affiliate market? I don't know. They probably don't like us because we made fun of them for losing the news. That's true. It's discussed. There are horrendous losses. Warren, that's fine. It's okay. That's all right. We still love them. I can recommend it we can recommend Yeah, exactly. Steve. Visiting can recommend visiting. So I was in the middle of drinking water. That's why I got stuck there. Whatever. I can also recommend listening to that episode of the older brother podcast available wherever you That was the name of yours. That was maybe yes. That's the one that's when they shut it down. They're like no, that's why they erased the history of of everything. He knew. That's true. No, it's I love Australia. I own a didgeridoo. It's right here. Hello. Wow, really pandering is Yeah, you know, what you got to do is reduce their culture to something they lost you and something that I only said that because I'm literally looking at it right now. It's like directly in front of me where I'm sitting. So like, right here. He wore him out actually. Actually, this is serendipitous emu wars came out exactly. One year ago. No way. Why 20 2020 near is makes no difference, man. That That's like two days off. We'll take it. That's pretty good. Look at that though. I love it man. Man so we got the back catalogue built up for when everyone's taking their summer weekend holidays right? They can listen they got everything's good. All available. So Aaron, what advice do you have for us up? How's it going?
Aaron 20:29
Oh, not bad. There's a certain Shelby in the other room who is obsessed with the show love Island. I don't know if you can hear it. Oh, no. here Oh, no amount of excitement but it sounds like someone got picked that she's like so she is ecstatic.
Collin 20:47
I
Aaron 20:48
I had Yeah, I don't. She's like, oh my gosh. This person. I don't I don't know who that is. Like. I don't like i don't i don't i don't know. Yeah, he's like, No, I can't I crazy. He's got a big APA. Sally is crazy. Um, so she's causing a ruckus in there. Me. So work number one has been going relatively smoothly, smoothly closing cases. Getting getting the transition period ready. Last Day is next week super exciting. I'm kind of in the notion of I just like, just like leaves and like just turned my stuff in. Like I buy like, I'm fine with that. But, but everyone's like, Oh, we gotta have like a last day party. And I'm like, No, that's okay. And then they're like, well, we'll take you to Nikolas which is that super fancy norlin slash Cajun restaurant in Tulsa don't like me
Collin 21:58
again Okay, they're mine they're gonna have so that'll be
Aaron 22:02
the last day next Friday work number you already had kind of in in athletics during summer you know especially summer athletics you can't hold you cannot hold like official workouts until like school actually starts so I went yeah for the I went down there whatever the
Collin 22:24
Oklahoma equivalent of
Aaron 22:26
mission is so I went down there yesterday or last or yesterday evening and did kind of like some workout stuff with you know, they're they're close to working on their max in weightlifting to get ready for this. It's it's kind of weird. I'm starting kind of like a new job like this coming in. Like once things are already established. So like, I just kind like awkwardly stood around for a while. And I was like, do you want me to? Like, are you going to introduce me as are like, what like, what do you want me to install? Finally, I was like, screw it. I just started like taking kids to the side, like working on phone forums. And they're like, Wait, who are you? And like, I'm Coach Funkhouser, like Oh, sweet. So
Collin 23:11
Aaron just started deadlifting. Just like, it gave me that bar. Like, he went straight to the straight to the hard stuff. Like, they, I move the clean and jerk Hey, guys
Aaron 23:23
picked up an empty bar, which is 45 pounds. I was like, yeah, you know? Yeah, you know, whenever you you know, do, you know, a deadlift? Like it looks like this. And like, my back was like, What are you doing? So stop, I met a lot of the kids talk to some of the other coaches. And it was a unique experience. The the after effect of kind of like today, there's there's certain things that you as a coach, plus educator need to do to qualify to coach as a state. And it's things like you have to take what's called a care of care and prevention class coaching fundamentals, health and safety, concussion protocols, things like that, that says, hey, you know, you know, you at least know what you're doing in these certain scenarios.
Collin 24:11
I see. Oh, yeah.
Aaron 24:14
The What am I on right now fundamentals of coaching. I am just now on unit three. And I started this thing at
Collin 24:23
four and
Aaron 24:27
three, and there's unit four or five and six. So these are going to be a tomorrow issue. I guess. And that's good for tomorrow area. And that's just one, one course thing. And there's a lot of information like legal stuff.
Collin 24:41
Oh, yeah, no, I bet it's here.
Aaron 24:43
Things like that. And so I need to complete these before practice like officially starts, which I have plenty of time. And I sort of already done a variation or version of this before. And I'm like, sure this will be easy, but it's like oh, this is revamped in revitalize. In the years I'd sell my credit so I'm I'm slogging through it slash relearning slash educating myself slash preparing myself for what I'm getting myself into an eight man football is a vastly different monster. It is incredibly fast pace. For those of you who are listening out of out of country it bears in in America, there's 11 man football. But if you if you go to a very small school and you don't exactly have enough student cat population to qualify for larger sports, they bump you down to eight man football, would you just take 11 people and just throw some of them away and then boom, you have eight man. The field is much smaller. It is a faster paced game.
Collin 25:55
And
Aaron 25:58
in some in eight man or 11 man football. You know, it's you know, it's typical high scoring or can be high scoring things in eight man football it is vastly fast pace. And there's a thing called the mercy rule. Which if there's a 45 Oh, wow, like soft. Yeah, if there is a 45 point spread, again, like 45 point spread for court anytime the game's over. Which, which is a good thing, and also a bad thing. When I coach 11, man football crazy, we, we we went what two and eight, my first year, coaching 11, man football. And like the games we won, were either like, eight to six, or like 75 and nothing. But those are the only two games that we won, comparative to like when we went and played like these really massive schools, which the final score is like 80 to three, or like 77 and nothing. And it's like, do we have a mercy rule? No. Hey, can we just have the clock running? Okay, awesome. So no matter what position if if 45 it's other 45 or 50 points spread, the game's automatically over.
Collin 27:15
Whoa. So I'm imagining like, this is just kind of like, the picture I have in my head when you say fast paced. He's like, you know, it's like crazy when you get to like college football teams, or just like a crazy like West Coast offense. And it's just like, defense optional. Like, just score as many points as fast as you can. Like, is that what it's like? He's like just talking.
Aaron 27:42
Some other eight man coaches from other schools. They're like, yeah, we don't really focus on defense. Because either we don't have the numbers or we don't have the, like, the, like the skill positions, which either like, they're really fast people. And so a lot of people are like, we just kind of focus on offense and just hope for the best on defense. And so a lot of people's philosophy turns into, we're going to outscore you wondering. Yeah, pretty, pretty much. So. special teams is pretty much out of the question. Some leagues, or some divisions, like take special teams like kick off kick return, like out of the question. They just put it like, right on a certain guard line that would just go on, like a 25 hour. And so
Collin 28:29
do they have like extra points and special teams like field goals?
Aaron 28:33
Typically, a lot of smaller schools don't bother. They just kind of go for it.
Collin 28:38
Or they just go old school is like four downs
Aaron 28:40
or nothing. So it's cool, because it is so fast paced, you have to take advantage. And a lot of it is true. A lot of it turns into like, you know, angles are looked at much. Yeah, totally. You need the kicker for like that last play of the game.
Collin 28:57
Yeah. Right. You just gotta have that one guy in reserve who can kick butt like doesn't normally he's also playing like, yeah, so here's another, position it with.
Aaron 29:07
Thinking about it. Like, as, as of right now. We have 23 players right now. Yeah. A lot of those kids who could play you know that they kind of dwindles down a little bit. But yeah, at my other school, I remember we took 14 kids to a school that had 85 kids, and we just got them Oh, no, we actually have a good consistent number. Mostly because I'm excited about not having to like, put a helmet on and like stand in place of like, a kid because we had to do that. And at the other school, I coach that it was like, hey, oh, you had to be the tackling day. I had to like step in and be like,
Collin 29:45
hey, like, I'm
Aaron 29:47
gonna be the running back or I'm going to be the quarterback. Somebody get open so I don't have to get hurt, hurt as much.
Collin 29:53
This is good news.
Aaron 29:54
We'd like that but thank you. So there's that it is I'm working on kind of the first year teacher at this schools like forms like, Hey, here's our insurance forms. Sign this, which I, I, if I could just like give it to somebody and have them do it for me like it would be like, just pick something I'll be fine. I just I, I get confused and I'm just like a word. You want me to sign it? I don't care right now. So I'm working through that. Yeah,
Collin 30:27
I had to sit with like the lady who doesn't like our accountant, bookkeeper, lady. I was like, Alright, I need you to help me with this. I can't
Aaron 30:35
it is kind of a good thing that Shelby and like her her mother, particularly particular, her mom, especially There we go. You know, she's she's a seasoned teacher. And so I'm like, I don't know what this Oklahoma insurance is. And she's like, I will just put this and put this here. Like, Okay, thank you.
Collin 30:53
So she usually they give me like these weird options, like pick one, two or three. But you're like,
Aaron 30:57
I don't understand. I don't know, what does that what these mean? So I am slowly going through that. I have seen my classroom. Like once a day, they're like, hey, in your classroom, like, I have no idea. Like, I just I was like, Oh, this is like where my desk is? And I can't even know where it's at. And Shelby's like, do you have a whiteboard? I'm like,
Collin 31:21
I don't know. That's gonna be important for lesson delivery. Yes, you. So you have a projector or a whiteboard, or I have a small board,
Aaron 31:31
I think. Go much else. So either this weekend or next week, there will be I might be going down there and doing some sort of decorating or at least just taking inventory.
Collin 31:45
Start with inventory,
Aaron 31:46
because it's going to be I'm not going to go as Pam, with my classroom, as I did with my fifth graders. This is it's pretty much going to be like very to the point. It's not gonna be like bare walls or anything like that, like I will have maps that I will make will make it at least look professional.
Collin 32:04
So those things were like what I did was like, I just started with something and then everyone's probably like, Oh, I need this. And you get that and you add in all I should do this. And then you add that right? you kind of do it. Yeah. And that's how my brain works better anyway, like, I have to identify a need and go, Okay, that's what I need. I'm really bad at like sitting down and be like, what do I need for the whole thing? Like, I'm not good at that. Yeah. So so
Aaron 32:26
I'll, I'll establish a classroom routine. And this weekend, for sure. We'll, we'll be making like the first initial lesson plans, because now that I know, like, what I'm sort of teaching. They threw in like, Hey, you might teach a computer class and like, sorry, what? So by age, it's pretty much it's all Middle School. And so that I can least narrow it down. I got some of the books can
Collin 32:52
I got? Yeah, use those books, man, those actually look very similar to the same book series that my classroom has. And they're like, mine are really old. But they're a really, really good baseline to follow. And so and so like, I'll tell you, if we you and I can talk about that later.
Aaron 33:10
I will probably call you because it especially because I'll be I'll be doing sixth, seventh and eighth. And kind of having, you know, book wise and then classroom stuff and kind of like my own stuff. Yeah,
Collin 33:24
that's what I do. I use the book for like when I went full time, but yeah, so
Aaron 33:29
yeah, that's kind of what been what's my week, I'm trying to finish classes. I'm drawing listeners don't want to hear about my process. It's time to learn a whole new football system. I'm literally looking at our quote unquote playbook, and I'm just trying to like articulate it into my own words, so I can understand it.
Collin 33:46
You know what you need for a minute football. I just decided you need to find one. Like really athletic kid to be a safety ad just like boom, blow it up everything. No, nobody's passing over here. Bam, get out. So you want to run over here bam, you're done. Like that's what you need. You see like a person in that like strong safe position. Boom, or whatever the eight man equivalent is called.
Aaron 34:13
It's pretty much the same thing to take away like three positions. I'll be doing running backs and linebackers which linebackers are however, I've never played running back. And so I am learning a lot as I go, but I mean, it's pretty much covered
Collin 34:27
the points shoulder down, go for it.
Aaron 34:32
The video on Adrian Peterson and or Jim Brown go
Collin 34:35
Yes. Yeah. So no, only the 70s running backs like Franco Harris just like here just run run everyone over
Aaron 34:42
lap. But we I met
Collin 34:47
sweep, power
Aaron 34:48
boom. Big I met I met a lot of the kids yesterday. And at first I was kind of in my own head. Starting at a new school meeting like new kids. You know, like golf the first day I was kind of freaked out. But like, then I met some of like the kids, like, I'll be coaching directly. And they're like, dude, like, We're excited for you to be here. And then jumping into it. So try transitioning from the department, learning a whole new system, try to take these enjoyable classes, trying to come up with a lesson plan and then trying to figure out what I'm gonna do with my room. All before August 12. So it's a is that when your school starts, so I have to be there for our first meetings, slash first practice August 9, and then schools couch boom, August 12.
Collin 35:38
Yo, whoa, and it Oh, my gosh,
Aaron 35:46
our drive more is it
Collin 35:49
56 minutes?
Aaron 35:51
Yeah, from where I live. So in early in the morning, it's actually pretty, pretty chill drive, reaching. When I was coming home the other day, like, I hit Tulsa, like five o'clock traffic and like, Oh, this is terrible. So once when school gets out, and once we have practice that time from point to Tulsa, it'll be a little bit later in, especially on Friday night. Especially if we, if I if the game goes really quickly, and he gets over really quickly. I'll get home at a pretty relatively decent time. But, man, I don't mind the drive. It gives me time to think and just kind of vibe. Yeah. No, I'm not gonna enjoy getting up that early. I gotta I gotta adjust to that pretty quickly. So yeah. But yeah, they'll be interesting. That's what that's what that's been going on.
Collin 36:43
That's crazy. Like our I'm not, I'm not rubbing salt or anything. But like, like, there's all our first teacher meetings are in the first day of school are like two over two weeks apart. Like, we have like two weeks of professional development before school started. Yeah. So like, I'm sure we come in. We do some meetings. We have like the time to start working on stuff. I just have to go up and dig into my stuff and be like, Oh, yeah, my first unit is this boom, here it is. Like, yeah, we have a lot more time. I'm sorry. But that's great. Well, so we so
Aaron 37:18
next week, we'll have the kind of like the workouts Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then on the third and fourth, when there's like some sort of kids camp. And then there's some some sort of other practice. And then on August 6, we have pictures for picture for sports pictures and stuff. So
Collin 37:43
I'll be it'll be either. Yeah, maybe afterwards, a sneak into your room for a little bit, do a little bit of something. And I mean,
Aaron 37:50
I'll probably I'll probably end up doing that just to get just get down there. And, really, and so that's kind of my plan, just kind of to see see what I have here. Slash What do I need to purchase myself? And then kind of just go and fix rate my room and kind of hope for the best so
Collin 38:10
nice. That's crazy. Yeah, but pretty good. Yeah. My recommendation would be just don't like don't plan super far ahead for everything. Just do a couple things. Yeah. Right. Then you get in the vibe. And then at least for me, it can become once you're in the mode, it's a lot easier to plan out. You're like, Oh, I need to do this plan. I got it. I need to do this. Boom, I had this great idea. Boom.
Aaron 38:40
And so that's kind of that's kind of where I'm at right now is just coming up with with some things to to hold over for if I can get like the first like month down. I think I'll be fine it because I know I know that will be subject to change. So yeah.
Collin 38:56
Yeah, that's a pretty good even if you have like a vague idea. Like even if it's not planned all out directly, like that'd be good. Yeah.
39:06
That's a lot though, man.
Collin 39:06
Very busy. Busy next. Three weeks. Yeah. Colin, moving up north. What's up with you up there? What's cool, other than finding any truck you can possibly discover? Well, what have you been up to? We've been spending a lot more time at the pool recently. And so I did see that. So Lillian has become very brave and very bold Olympic diver, is what she's become like. It was absolutely adorable. So I missed the first part of that. But Megan creepy, and said that Lillian came I'm over to the diving board. And Noah wanted to be over to watch his sister. But he ran over got his little floaty boat thing, put it on, and then scooted and kicked all the way across the pool, got himself underneath whoa buoy line, and waited in the deep end just hanging out watch over and over. Oh my gosh. He was like not going to be left alone. He ran over there. It was so funny. You have really, really enjoyed watching her so other than that, so she's been she's been doing really good with with with the with swimming and both of them happy giving, like really really confident. And I think it's helped that she that we've been seeing a lot more of their friends from school there recently. Oh, yeah, it's cool. So they like have a better connection. Then. Because they immediately they Oh, yeah, this bit no people there isn't something to go talk to even though it might. Even though they don't a lot of times. Yeah, you can still like wave Hey, what even though they're like that, Hey, watch this. Like you know that? Yeah, yeah. So we're, that's been really good. And really fun. I've been really enjoying the evenings. And the other bonus here is whenever the kids go and spend three, three and a half hours at the pool. They sleep. Az a Yeah, there we go. I always remember that after doing a lot of swimming when I was younger, like I would be like, just so incredibly hungry. And tired. Right? It's like the most hungry like I ever was was ever like lots of swimming like literally starving to death right now. I can't even know I'm in that was thing like we we went to eat one one night after they had done swimming. And the kids like just absolutely demolished and normal order that they hardly ever finished. And so we were like, oh, but yes. Oh, that's right. We were exercising. I forgot these. Yeah, cuz the kids like just tore through it. And they looked at us and they were like, we're still hungry. Or like
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sorry.
Collin 43:02
Where's the rest Dad? Oh, but that was that's been good. And we've also Lillian, big news, Lillian tested into first grade. Well, whoa, whoa, hey, yeah, well, yeah, yeah, little Chica is ipping. Kindergarten. There we go. We great had her assessed, and they were like, yeah, she's, she's either going to be so this is the this is there's a lot of things that went into this. But she was either going to be both the the oldest and the most advanced in kindergarten. And she would be the only girl in a class of five. New Yeah, or she's going to be one of the younger students. But more on par with people in her CO in that in first grade. And we, we talked with the instructors, and with the principal, and they were all fine with allowing her to move into first grade. With the idea that, obviously, we're going to be involved and working on doing any catch up or staying communicating with teachers to make sure everything's moving on track. But yeah, they were like, yeah, like, no, that's totally fine with us. Because I don't know if I told you guys the process, but we went in to get her assessed. And when we went originally, we're gonna go do this. They were like, you know, how old is she? And five. I said, but she'll be sick in the fall. And so, at first they're just going to do the first grade and then they were like, but Wait, when is her birthday? And I told them, it says the number and like, Oh, well, since she's not sick by the start of the school year, we can't put we're not going to put her in first grade. Yeah, it's like, by a few weeks. Are you serious? I was I not that I was frustrated. Yeah, it's all real weird, like hardcore thing, they get really hardcore about that all of a sudden, they were like, okay, so they were like, we're just gonna do the kindergarten. I was like, whenever Well, we get there. And she's like, it'll take an hour. I'm like, okay, like, that's kind of long for a five year old. But whatever, whatever we got to do. And turns out, they did. The first grade, they did the kindergarten assessment. They did the first grade assessment, and then they did a partial second grade SATs. Okay, to see where she is on the, okay. It took an hour and an hour in 45 minutes. I said, we're done. Because Lillian did not get a break. She did not get a snack. Nothing took place. There was nothing. She came running out to me saying, I have to be really bad. I gotta be I gotta be I gotta pee. And I was like, Well, of course, was an hour and 45 minutes, you would have gone over, he would be a two hour. And so when they got it gave back some of the score. I was I kept asking, and when did they give that aside? Because my idea was, if you give an assessment of a five year old, at a second grade level, and it is at the end of an hour and 45 marathon, however, 45 minute marathon, I'm going to basically add between five and 10% on to whatever you tell me or more. Like, they had a we're reading stories, and then doing like recall and comprehension of story. And I'm like, yeah, oh, yeah, me burned out. Like, that was stupid. You don't get to do that at an hour and a half in to the assessment. Like, that's not okay. Though, you know, because at first they're like, Well, you know, she was kind of one thing was lower on this, and we would have liked to see. And I was like, Yeah, but also get did that you were doing math at an hour and 20 minutes into this? I think we can assume she sat there quietly paying attention and trying. I think she's going to do just fine in classroom their best. I mean, I'm probably turning into one of those annoying parents. You that did sound a little bit like one of the seriously serious seriously, you come in and you set? Okay, sit down a sixth sixth grader, and ask them to sit still for almost two. Oh, no, that's impossible. That's why that's why we during map testing, we have like we always do, like, here's the first session. And they're like, it depends on which test they're taking. But the you know, they get as much time until they're all done, right. That's what it is. But they give you an estimated time looks like okay, it's 30 to 40 minutes. But there's like, three sessions. So we do one session, and then we're done for like, at least half an hour, right? We're out. We're doing something else. We're taking a break we're doing. But and then we come back to the next one. Right. And then we go, yeah, we have to build in those break times. And then, you know, we we also don't test back to back days. Right? Because we have we have to do a CA or a Communication Arts test and a math test. Right, but we will not test like Wednesday Thursday. Sure. You know, I mean, because that's like, like you're talking about like that means your Thursday scores are just gonna be terrible. Right? No, you want to like, Tuesday, Thursday? Yeah. Right? Or like, ideally, what you want to do is like, Tuesday, next Tuesday, right? That's what you're right. Yeah, something like that. So you really spread about and this is like, this all totally makes sense to me. And I was just kind of like staring at these people being like, how are you not getting this, though, anyway, but it wasn't as if it was like, she scored like a 60%. And I was over there being like, oh, you're gonna let her in. It was like, do you scored a 91%? And they were in it was like, Yeah, no, obviously couldn't get in. First grade level, or it's gonna be right. That's what we were dealing with here. I was just pushing back on the connotation of like, well, she, you know, you're gonna have to work on her paying attention skills, whatever. And I was like, yeah, at 90 minutes, you have to work on my painting skills, right? Like that's
50:16
after 90 minutes, you know what I was doing? I was I was walking in the gymnasium counting ceiling tiles trying to stay active. And in
Collin 50:25
my five year old was doing math. So, you know, like I told you, you're both doing math, technically, it's fine to zero, this this through, but I was just like, Do you watch me pacing and counting the tiles and then like multiplying the dashed lines on things so that I could keep my brain from consuming itself? I was bored. It's, it gets real bad when you start counting edges. Night, that's what I do. I started counting like, edges of things. But then I have this like real big problem, I have to subdivide it into like, a multiple of five or an even number. And so I'm like, looking about how I can deconstruct things into line segments. And it's a problem. Really, I've been getting a lot better at it. I used to, like compulsively do it. But like, thinking he better but I will, I will look at like a bookshelf. And I will just start segmenting the bookshelf into line segments. And like counting edges, and like spaces and how they construct together, it's found all the triangles in those pictures, didn't you? Yes. Yeah, a lot of things on long road trips, I would, I would count the line dashes in a quarter mile and then multiply it because you get to the yard the mile markers, but they're every quarter mile. Oh, yeah, I would count the line dashes multiply it by the multiply by how many per mile I got. And then I was how many more miles we had left in the trip is the how many line dashes were going to be for the rest of my home? No, I would not it wasn't that bad. I mean, you got to do so. Anyway, I did that thing, which I didn't know anyone else did until I read it on the internet somewhere. But like you imagine there's like, some person or you like riding next to the car on like a motorcycle or bicycle, like doing tricks over like, fences, from tree to tree? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would do that. Like extreme Tony Hawk style, though, like on the fence post, and you're on the theme. And I would do that. I don't know if people did that. At all. Isn't that weird? And then I read somebody else was I was read online somewhere. Someone was talking about how they did it. I was like, What? What do you mean? That's such a weird, like, No way banality that people have of like, you imagined an imaginary person running from branch to branch and from tree to and from fencepost defense. But yeah, and you never told anybody?
53:11
Why would you and someone else also did the same thing? Like, I
Collin 53:17
definitely like the start of a movie of like, they were all dreaming of little green men. They all had the same dream. That's true. I think that's in the silmarillion. somewhere. They have the same dream, but they don't tell each other right forever and solving the problem. Yeah, that's what I would do internships, like just mindlessly stare out the window. Or I would do math, like I would like, try to calculate how long it would get, like take to get to places at current mph based on like, that the miles sign, you know, that you saw? Like, okay, well, we're going like 65 miles an hour. And that place is like 20 miles away. So I would try to like mentally calculate, like mental math, like, how about how many minutes it would take to get to those places? Yeah, I do that. I still do that. Like I think that's, I think there's a lot of just general, I would say, but like, you really get good at rounding and guesstimating I feel like with those kind of problems, because you start picking up on patterns and going okay, if it was like that, 17 minutes, this, this and blah, blah, and you can work your way through it you do. It's like it's gonna be because you like or sort of like factoring in your head almost kind of, like well, it's gonna be like 15 and then something else. So like, about you know, 1718 minutes Right, that's what you kind of do in your head, you kind of come up with these ways of trying to figure out like, just the time based on current speed, you know, so, yeah, I still do that for you missile math 27 plus 48. How do you do that? Right, do it. I do. seven plus eight and then 20 plus 40. And then add them together. Man, how do you do that? I Aaron, are you there? Yep. Oh, do you do that? Don't do math. Okay, good. You know, you don't Aaron? I do. 20 and 47 and seven plus one. Oh, well, yeah, that's how I would probably do. Yeah, cuz that's how I would do seven and eight. Yeah, right. Because seven and eight. I know. Seven sevens. 14 plus one more is 15. And then I would just add that to the 6475. Right. Yeah. I just, yeah, I usually go by known. Yeah. Like your doubled value, right? I know that about myself. Like, I usually go by my doubles values. So like, if I have a number, like especially the one offs like, why do you add like, you know, six and seven, like, six plus six? And one more? Right. That's what? I see that all the time. Right. Yeah, I think I don't know. I don't. I was flashed across on my Facebook page. And it was interesting to see how people broke it down. Some people were like, Oh, well, I'm gonna do some people did like 25. And I totally weird answers to me that just like, didn't make sense for how I how I process while you're still breaking it into you're still deconstructing it was just by numbers that they deconstructed to was like, Oh, that's weird. And like, so when somebody was like, oh, easy. I would just add 30 plus 50? minus five. I was like, Oh, yeah, I guess that Yeah. Stay away from subtracting, but never would have thought to do that. Probably. Unless it was closer. Yeah, right. I will do that if it's like a closer value. But if it's like five or more, I'm not going to subtract, I usually only subtract if it's like, physically within four. Right? That's kind of what I think I'm gonna do mentally. We talked about that in summer school, right? We're talking about both the beginning we're doing like multiplication, just practice. And so like, the first day, I was like, just here's the math sheet. Like this times like this, like, it was like some number of problems. I was I just do it. Well, a lot of time, whatever. The next day. After we did that, I was like, Alright, so how do you do a problem that you don't know the answer to? If you don't know it, if you don't know, like, if you don't have it memorized? Like if you don't know, seven times six? How do you figure it out? What do you do? And we had in my room, there was I mean, people were there. There was we came up with four strategies, right? To find unknown things, you know, so it was pretty good. I was like, Okay, I left them all up on the board. I wrote examples of how to do like the same math problem. But with each four strategies, I was like, today, when you get to those ones, you don't know. Try one of these. So they were kind of practicing, like, different ways that maybe that might help them to do that. But that is a weird, you're right, that is a strange thing. That there are like 700,000 ways to get the same answer. And that's what drove me crazy about like, seventh grade math specifically, was like, No, that's wrong. You can't do this, like, but it's the half that I'm talking about get out. But that's the old. You know, that's the old way of thinking each one way, right. Like it's gonna do it. Does that get that? Yeah, whether that DJI in your the way the way you think or not, what you're doing? Yeah. And I think that that's another thing that people like, there's a there's a disconnect when you're talking about like modern education, like discourse, right? Like, like, oh, wow, you can't just do it that way. Like, yeah, I know. We, we don't do it anymore. by shouting, sorry that you're sorry that your seventh grade math was also bad, but We don't do it like that anymore. We get like, you know, people shouting like, when was the last time you read a math class? Oh, yeah, a long time ago. That's important to think about different ways to do things. And I think that's a good skill that translates to other, like all other things, right? Not not just schoolwork or math course think about, you know, basically the problem solving in general. Just the ability to be like, I need to try it this way. Boom. That didn't work. What about this? I think what's really key there, because I know for me was when they would start teaching multiple ways to solve, I would get overwhelmed, because then I try and memorize each possible way to solve certain kinds of problems. But I think, I think, what is the biggest takeaway there? Is that just knowing there are multiple way? And that yeah, that if you can't, it's okay to try different ways in different systems. If you don't know it, because, you know, if you're like, well, this is the only way I know how to do it. And I can't get the right answer. I'm not getting anywhere. It's like, Well, no, there are multiple ways I can step back and try something different. Yeah, I think that's, I mean, I had that specific thing happen. Probably Middle School. seventh grade, I'm off. But like, I was doing math, right. And I did have dad helped me with my math homework. And he's like, oh, you're like this? And I looked at it like, What? What? What? What are you talking about? Gonna give an example of working with that as well. So this is this works. Let's save that I had that experience. Right. Like, what do you mean, you do it like that? That's what? Yeah, here, let's have an engineer show you exactly how to do this. Right? Who's got? Yeah. Maybe, in theory sounds like a good person, I have asked you for math, you know, a person whose math is literally their job. But, but when the teacher is like, that's nice. What I'm actually trying to the reason I'm teaching this process is because I'm trying to teach like a fundamental principle of mathematics. And when you don't do this process, you won't get that principals, though. stop you. Well, I feel like they should say that to their students. Right. You know, I mean, like, I feel like a lot of teachers, like they don't tell their students that. They won't be like, Hey, I am teaching you right now. This thing that we're doing is basically the first step for solving algebraic equations. Right? We don't call it that yet. But that's right. And that makes the kids be like, Oh, yes. You see the picture? Okay. I understand. Now. I know why I'm doing it. No, you know, I mean, if you can't give them that, even if it's like, Hey, this is a step to something else. That didn't get that break. Good. To know. Good boss. How about now? Yeah. All right. Sorry. My internet just die from it. Anyway,
1:03:59
what I was saying when I was getting ready to say, yeah, was to put this in an analogy that I love. I love analogy. When when you have people walk into a room, like it's cool, you don't look at their shoes and go, you've had to shoot around. I'm sorry.
Collin 1:04:21
You tied your shoe incorrectly. Get out of my classroom. Right. Like, there are there are many ways to tie a shoe. Again, I didn't know this until I looked it up one time because we're making an instructional video. And we watched like four in every single one was a different way to tie a shoe. And we were all like, wait, watch. Yeah, like, it gets the job done. Here. She was tired. It's fine. Don't worry that chill. Well, you mentioned it'd be nice if features brought you in on kind of learning process. I didn't. I didn't Hit that until it was algebra in high school. Right? That's when you do algebra. Yes, yeah. And I remember, we were learning some concepts. And he's like, and he was like Now, next week, I'm going to show you something. So you don't have to do any of this. And you'll never have to do math like this again. But I'm getting you through this. Because it's gonna make more sense next week, when we when we do the more when we do the different version. I was like, Oh, well, it's kind of like that moment of like a flash before my eyes of every single math class of just like going into June. Of every time, it was like, things make a lot more sense. Yeah. I mean, that's, I don't know, this. I'm very passionate about this particular subject. Like, people are afraid of math. Yeah, right. Imagine if you sat down your first day of art class. They showed you a Monet and like, paint that. Right? You're gonna be like, No, I'm out. What they do in art class is you start off by learning like little tiny, bitty pieces, like different techniques, different brush strokes, different whatever. And then you build up until all of a sudden, you can do things like that. Right? But in art, you know, the end goal. And in math, like nobody tells you the end goal. Right? It's not until you're sitting in an economics class. And you're looking at this graph, and you go, oh, oh my gosh, that's a quadratic function. Holy cow. What? Like, seriously? No. idea. Whoa. Yeah. Like, nobody can tell you what it's for. Yeah, I mean, there's ever times where concept it's like so compartmentalised. It really is where it wasn't until I was doing like lawn population modeling and dynamics where you we had quadratic functions, but each one was a different component about like, the life history of an organism. Yeah, that where it was like, wow, this would have been actually very helpful to think of it in these terms back in high school. Because all of a sudden, each component has a lot more meaning other than a seven, or, yeah, and it's, it's weird, because you do that in literally every other subject. Right? In like textual, ag shop, you go, Hey, this bearing is important, because if this bearing doesn't work, it totally throws off this other part in this motor. So these bearings have to function and roll properly when you go. Okay, so I think the bearings will be fine, right? boom, done. If you're in geography class, right? And you don't know the cardinal directions of the compass. But you can like clearly see that that is helpful to reading maps, and like understanding how things work. Right. But like, they don't nobody clues you into the math part. I think it's because people are afraid of it. And then like, number two, like, nope, nobody told that some of the teachers either, right, that's the other problem. Right? Nobody told them. So they can't tell you. Like, it's kind of a thing, right? In the numbers, numbers, because numbers,
1:08:41
you know, and that's not necessarily their fault, right. But that's, that's kind of what happens, right? Especially elementary school, right?
Collin 1:08:51
I've said this before, to people at work, like, nobody teaches third grade, to be a math teacher. Right? All the people that really want to teach math are teaching high school math. So they're doing so it's really hard to set the foundation for them. Third grade, you know, I mean, that's hard. That's difficult one. I was gonna have another thought. And it left me Oh, I do that in science all the time. Right? We talk and I'll be like, Alright, you don't need to know too much about this. Because this is some like chemistry stuff. All right. I'm gonna give you a little taste of it right now. But know that you don't have to understand how this works because it's gonna you'll you'll learn more about later. It's fine. Like, here's some little introductory sauce. This what you're doing right now is chemistry. This what you're doing right now is biology. Right? This are you doing right now is physics. Right? These are little sprinkles, about what it's all about later. kind of gives them the door. Some of the key things that Can sixth grade, some kids think that's really cool? Like, oh, hey, I learned a little bit of chemistry today. what's right, other kids don't care at all. But like, some kids are like, Oh, that's a neat, you know, hopefully, later when they take chemistry, or they'll be like, Oh, I want to do that. The goal, I don't know if it works or not, but it's the goal. But it clues them into the process, I think that's always important to be transparent, as far as like, because it helps set expectations as far as like, where you are, where we're taking you, and then how that's gonna look. And I actually brought that exact team up. In an informal exit interview today, was just some feedback to my supervisor and other people. And that was one thing that I had mentioned of, like, you know, a lot of the skills and technical knowledge that somebody requires for the job, you don't learn with a degree, you don't learn in a lot of different aspects. So it's a lot of on the job training in house. And something that they don't have in place that I encourage them to do was a basically a timeline for independence, or new people that come in of like, how are you going to assess that person for the skills that they need for the job? And how are you going to train them? Then? How are you going to communicate to that person and to do checkup with them to make sure that they're progressing? Yeah, right. Because we have it my boss was like, Oh, yeah, no, we that makes total sense. Like, their plan was basically just to kind of like, mentor me until it was kind of, okay. And they felt comfortable letting me go off on my own. But I'd been there going on three years, and I had never once done a site visit by myself, and not bitter by that are really frustrated. And that has nothing to do with Ron leaving. And so I had to stress that for them. I'm like, Look, I'm just telling you, like, this is something that I saw in the process of me developing in this position and learning skills, that I think maybe the next person should have a slightly different experience, I was kind of fine with it. They might not be. So this is just a heads up, because it also helped the teachers now have like, or in this case, my supervisor and co worker like, yeah, where is Collin? Where is this person that we're bringing in, so I know how to treat them, and how to present information. Because if you don't have that, it's just like a classroom Exactly. Where if you don't have that process, if you don't have these procedures in place, where you're not checking, and you're not doing assessments, and you're not letting the person try things on their own, nobody's learning and nobody's growing. And all you're doing is seeing this, like weird, sick code dependencies that bring together and nobody's happy. Like, you know, and she was like, extremely thankful for that kind of feedback. And I was really one of the only ones give, but it was just very interesting for me to when she was like, you know, if you have some stuff you'd like to share, anytime, let me know. And then I thought about it for about a week. today. I was like, Yeah, I, I came up with this one thing that I really think procedurally is really going to help. Who was ever in this position? Do a lot more. And you guys, well, that's good. That's I mean, that's what I was gonna ask Aaron, does your new school do they have like a mentor program?
Aaron 1:13:31
I mean, sort of, no, I definitely understand where Collins coming from, we're talking about like, you know, you don't really you learn a lot of things definitely out in the field. There's a lot of stuff that like, you don't, you don't learn, especially with a college degree, especially with, with what I do, or what I'm leaving with DHS, because I remember in training out there, the whole state sponsored training program called core, and in earlier episodes, you hear me complaining about it, but they many, many episodes. There's there's a lot of people that go through and like I'm gonna be a social worker, I get done. And I learned this, that the other and then when you get into this job, it's like, none of that prepared me to what I'm going to see or what I'm going to deal with. And I mean, there is no real training for that until like you're actually out in the field. But like, I'm also talking about things like how to actually document you know, like affidavits. How do you know, document your reports, you know, how to make referrals to places you don't learn that until you are either with someone or you will like ask someone or you're completely on your own. With how I did it was when I was going through core. And when I was, you know, back working on my individual training, I'd ask people and I wouldn't go out with them on cases. And be like, Hey, I'm gonna you know, let me document this for you. And you know, I had people there with me, like, it was easier because I was we were actually in the office. But I became more difficult after a fact, especially for the new people that came in following me. Perfect case now, as we have these two workers, who individually are going to be awesome, but they're kind of kind of in a weird boat, because there's a lot of people leaving our particular region. And all they did was that they went out with one person. And because I knew you'd get in trouble, if you would request them and be like, Hey, I'm taking this person out, well, why are you doing that? Because they asked me and I, you know, they need to learn how to do this particular kind of case. But they only learn from one person. And that only person would you like you're following up in you're not talking. And we're just doing. And so when I finally when I finally got ahold of them, they're like, Oh, yeah, we had no idea how to do that. And that there are several times where I had to be on zoom, or, or on teams program, like walking through with people how to document, you know, how to articulate what you saw, or what you wrote into a certain kind of form, and kind of all this stuff. And it kind of was heartbreaking, because like, you know, we have these people that are that had so much potential, but they're already going to be ruined by either this one person, or the lack of support from higher administration, because they're like, Oh, you know, why is this person struggling, they're struggling, because they don't have they never had that help. And they were literally handheld through everything and was never learned how to do it themselves. And then you just drop them off with, you know, a case with, you know, six, six to 12 children and, you know, six potential parents and you know, like, and of course, they're going to struggle. So with what Collin is saying, I want to completely understand and have have seen firsthand. As far as my school goes, now, I have no idea. I just found out last week that I'm maybe teaching computers. And with some of the coaches, they don't teach my same subject area, and kind of where my classroom is. I'm kind of by myself. Which, historically, speaking from my other school, I kind of would have preferred because I had, like, teachers, like, constantly coming into my class to need something, but never to really help. So with this meeting, on the ninth, I am going to attach myself to someone that if they like it or not, to kind of be like, Hey, where where can I do policy? Like, hey, how does you know? How does this fit on this schedule? Like, Hey, what do you do for this? And then get the heck out of them.
Collin 1:17:55
I envision Aaron coming up and slapping a pair of handcuffs on them going here, my friend now. Yeah. He's handcuffed together. All right, let's do it. Rock.
Aaron 1:18:08
No, I'm just I'm just gonna sit next to them not say a word. And then just like, kind of follow them and let them kind of gather that information like, oh, you're with me now.
Collin 1:18:16
So Well, I know like a lot of schools now they have like, like, we have been actually an educational like, coach. And her job is to work with every everybody with five or less years experience. And just like anybody that asks for her help, to come in and talk about like lessons, lesson design, classroom management, discipline, school policy, like all that kind of stuff, just like anything that you need to kind of like, help with, you know, that's what she does. You know, she has time to her day, or she'll just come in and just watch your class. She'll just like, watch you deliver a lesson. And just be like, Oh, yeah, you know, that's what you try this, you know, like, did you think about these things? Like, oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah. Cool, like, so, you know, that's, that's one bonus if they have something like that, but even if it's just like, other teachers in that same grade level, you know, like other people that are teaching sixth and seventh grade, you know, just be like, hey, what can you tell me about this thing or this discipline policy or whatever? Like, have that kind of communication is really helpful?
Aaron 1:19:25
Yeah, and it kind of sounds part of the other thing that I kind of got in my own head the other day is that you know, kind of feeling that I was kind of like the last picked in late to these into the situation of you know, kind of that struggling to stay afloat, kind of feel. I it was kind of the same way at my other school, I was like, Oh, hey, here's a new guy. Alright, bye. Here there's there's a little bit more support from the administration. You know, talking with them directly texting them, calling them directly. They're more open to it. It is it is a significantly smaller school, though as far as like extra resources to a lot to an individual that good. But yeah, that time, I'm not sure it's there. But it might even be
Collin 1:20:15
an administrator. Right. And sometimes they do that. And so
Aaron 1:20:19
I asked, I think I asked the superintendent who's who's one of the who's one of the other athletic coaches, I was like, if you can, like just come and sit in my classroom, or just like, do things like one on one before school starts? He's like, Yeah, sure. Okay, that's fine. So that's kind of that is a really big support. Cool. Good. But as far as like an individual that does that, but yeah, cuz I'll probably just find some teacher to force to be my friend. And learn things like that
Collin 1:20:49
way. But I think it's important. Yeah. That'd be cool. That's really good. Yeah. So let's know the follow up. Who have you claimed as your own? Like,
Aaron 1:21:00
this is my friend.
Collin 1:21:04
That's cool. Oh, and it's nice to just even if they don't teach the same thing, right. Like, I have, like, my, she's moving classrooms. I'm very mad at her. But she's like, like, my teacher, neighbor. Right? Yeah. It's, I would just go over there sometimes, like, Hey, I have this idea to think about it. Like, I want to do this thing. Tell me if this is a dumb idea or not. And just sort of like, lay it out for her. And she could be like, Oh, that's good. But you should probably do this way. Oh, yeah. That's a good point. I should do that too. Like, you know, it's nice to have someone else just bounce ideas off, even if they're not teaching the same subject or anything. But yeah, that the other thing that he said, that kind of hit home a little bit was like, you got to get out of your head. And I say that as someone who's in my head, like super hardcore, like, I still really suffer with some like, imposter syndrome, almost It feels like of like, because, like, I got an email the other day, like, we want you to be on the building Leadership Committee. And I was like, Why? Why? Like, why would you want that? Are you sure? That sounds like a terrible idea. Like, you know, because I've been my head about that stuff. Like, you don't really want me to do that. Right. Like, I can't do that. You know, like, that's just the thing that everybody struggles with in some way. I think so. So hopefully, it'll be helpful in helping you cope with this. Just this first couple weeks. This breath can be good, though. Alright. We've wandered to and fro as usual, as Yes. As we do. Yes, it is in the in the binder. So you listeners Yeah. Wow. Get that. We'd love you, Australia. Well, you guys enjoy. Evening. You too. You as well. All right.