Kwa NateKo episodes:

• September 01, 2025@kwa | Structure and flow. Inviting or repelled by critique.

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  "And to me, that went well in a way that was kind of. In some. Some way kind of effortless. And I remember even when they had a group activity and only. It's only under circumstances that. Certain circumstances that I'm very comfortable in front of a larger crowd. But they combine a number of advisories and we basically had to have this activity be led and somehow I ended up doing it. So it's maybe 40 or 50 kids, I think."

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• September 01, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Prioritizing for the Year Ahead

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  "History what's nice about the history teacher this year is that he's outlined some specific skill sets from the get go as opposed to just assignments and we'll see what that what happens when he gets to the writing because you know the note taking writing is a whole different ball game. But I'm really focusing on less on the content and really the ability to be able to support them as they in terms of structure and responses, note taking comprehension, very similar skills to ela."

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• September 01, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: IEP, 504, PPT Mini-Playlist

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  "I always thought it as a service for the kids and that is for the students. That is really, and it is true, it is really, you know, your main focus here is the students, if, but a lot of the language. And as I listen to these, these podcasts on this playlist and I learn more about like standards or not standards, I want to say the culture of special education, which again, I sit kind of like part, part way in."

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• August 31, 2025@kwa | Slavery and the U.S. Economy. Minority history in education. Black and Asian American relations in the U.S.

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  "And the list of podcasts also goes on from there to. To Asian American history in the education system, or lack thereof, and then relations between black Americans and Asian Americans. So this is an interesting list. I went through this playlist today as I was getting work done for school and running errands. And I'll put a bunch of the links here. The first podcast is titled the Economy that Slavery Built."

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• August 31, 2025@kwa | Why Accurate Labor Statistics Matter

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  "The wide effects of people who are not educated in these matters making uneducated decisions because of wanting to protect reputation above all else or like public image. But it does quite the opposite. It makes the US seem, seem less reliable and has global impact with negative economic consequences. And we're just talking about the data here, but it is, it is the bedrock of certain things."

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• August 30, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Reading List. Tutoring. Finding focus. Lesson structure.

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  "And I realized outside of, outside of just what I want to read my, myself. Robotics is going to take up a good bit of my reading time. But it's cool because one of the new, the new people at school is doing a robotics class and he's in robotics and he has a, like a kind of like a module program that helps the students kind of teach themselves. I'll be bouncing things off with him maybe, and there's that weekend program, et cetera."

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• August 30, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Weekend before school opening. Tutoring.

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  "Because I've gotten ahead of some of the other stuff that I have kind of a handle on. And I'm reading a little bit of physics too. So I hope by October maybe, maybe I'll be working with somebody in the sciences as well. And it's always better, I think to get. It's cool to get tutoring work with kids in tutoring a subject before you like teach an entire class or expand beyond that because you really get to learn it one on one with the students."

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• August 30, 2025@kwa | Is this even something to protect my child from?

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  "I don't know if this is something to worry about, and I'm. And I'm putting that out there, but. And if it's too young to worry about, I wouldn't talk to him about that yet myself, but. Weird problem to have, right? I just think it hit home so much so that these women had a conversation about my son, like he was a piece of, like, art or something, and then wanted to. Talked about like a kid."

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• August 29, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: 1 (working) day till launch.

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  "So I'm thinking academic lessons if we reserve and we don't have to stick exactly to that, but if we res if we reserve a day for sick le for academic lessons, I mean for math and ELA it would be that day Then they have independent work I'm assuming on Mondays independent they'll have the least amount of independent work time. So what I want them to focus on is is on what identify one thing they can do in five to 15 minutes."

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• August 28, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Meeting New Parents and Students. 2 days till launch.

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  "I didn't get to talk to as many folks as I want to, but I did. I did, you know, have some talks. I talked with some parents. We. We first had a. A kind of a. A powwow in a different kind of larger space with parents that were specifically in the program that I work in, parents and students."

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