Jonathan Brown is a program manager for AVID for Higher Education. As a former high school AVID student from Killeen ISD, Jonathan has experienced the roles of an AVID student, tutor, and one of the first AVID instructors in higher education. While attending college, Jonathan traveled the U.S. as a motivational speaker, sharing his experience as an AVID student and how it opened doors of opportunity to his future. In 2009, Jonathan began working with the University of Texas of the Permian Basin to develop an AVID First-Year Seminar, in which students learned how to navigate college and grow their critical thinking skills. As a teaching assistant at the freshman seminars, Jonathan used his AVID experience to show students and instructors how to use the AVID strategies he implemented when he was in college. After getting his degree from UTPB, Jonathan became the university’s AVID Liaison, later joining AVID Center itself.

On This Episode:

• Find out how Jonathan encourages people to learn through reflecting on situations.
• Discover how to become more empathetic.
• Hear how the experience of foster care can affect educational development.
• Jonathan share a personal story about how a teacher helped him develop the skills he needed to become a success.
• Hear how one teacher literally saved Jonathan’s life.

Jonathan’s Tips For Teachers:

1. Learning happens in the reflection.
2. Stay in conflict and learn how to navigate it.
3. Just when you think you can’t do anymore - dig deeper.

Tweetable Quotes:

It’s not about working hard, it’s about working hard the right way.Love them or lose them.It’s not just one teacher doing great work that changes the world - it’s all of us.

Jonathan Brown:

• twitter.com/JGBspeaks
• [email protected]
• 254.415.9069

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