What does it mean to connect with someone? Learn from a psychologist how our connections regulate our emotions, and the policies and biases that drive disconnection in our schools and society.

Show Notes:

• Where Jody’s passion for connections came from. (3:05)
• A time and a place for strategies. (5:20)
• Remembering why we do this work as educators. (7:30)
• We are all just walking each other home. (9:30)
• Connect before you direct. (11:20)
• The practices and policies in schools that drive disconnection. (12:30)
• The ACEs research on trauma and the childhood benevolence scale. (17:15)
• Checking our biases. (21:00)
• Implicit bias & cultural sensitivity. (25:15)
• Leaning into the emotional experience of discomfort. (28:35)
• Relationship knows no hierarchy. (31:34)
• Having conversations and starting a movement. (34:16)

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