Kwa NateKo episodes:

• June 09, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Tutoring Stigma / Misconception

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  "It tends to be a lot of times kids that are already pushing ahead and want to do more, get more tutorators. It's interesting to see that misconception, I think, and it's not a bad thing because it could partially reflect what the parents see in whatever school systems they are in. But it's just interesting to hear and I've seen this before."

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• June 07, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: STEM Learning, Planning

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  "And that makes a huge difference. It really builds on that way. So I can see how like, just like math, if you are stuck in, stuck at a certain point and you didn't get comfortable with some of the material, how much harder it can get years in, years continued, or how much exponentially easier it can get if you've learned it really well, how much faster you go than your peers. I'm now starting to see like why that is in science."

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• June 04, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Chosen Road

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  "It's a foundation for me to like expand on my. It's a place to develop foundations that I could expand upon outside of school, you know, as I'm learning. So I don't get that part as much, but I do get to work on the teaching part. So. And I'm hoping if I can get things right, especially with this hour long commute, the time management piece gets easier because it has been so challenging to manage all of that."

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• June 02, 2025@kwa | Next Read: "The Psychology of AI" by Tony Prescott

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  "My avenue to learning about technology and AI and maybe even coding and what is still relevant today will be more from the more things like this, like, like pop pop sign related stuff and then eventually get into this. Anyway, it's a short read. It's a very slim book. So a chapter day I'll probably go through. If anybody wants to join in, feel free."

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• June 01, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Spring to Summer

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  "Speaking of which, there was one case in one of my classes on Friday where I'm not going to say I wasn't mean to the kids at all, but I think they could tell there's a little bit of agitation on my face. Like one kid was like, are you mad at me? Or whatever. And it was just. We had a day where we had mostly workshop, which is in."

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• May 26, 2025@kwa | Next Read: Strong Towns

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  "The practice of city planning has largely been reduced to zoning, a way of categorizing the world into homogenous blocks, primarily for ease of regulation and transportation, the latter being the primary way we facilitate growth within our cities. What both professions have in common is that they view cities as complicated, but not complex. There is a massive difference, and it's critical to explaining why our modern cities are so fragile. Something that is complicated can have many moving parts."

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• May 23, 2025@kwa | Affirmation Cards: Deciding to Thrive

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  "That's what we're trying to do. So I'll just have him read these, I think as maybe part of a series. Okay. You ready to read it? Yeah. Read the card. 52. Thrive. I am deciding to thrive. I am deciding to look for. For situations and opportunities that benefit me. I am deciding to follow my path of least resistance toward. Toward my goals. I am deciding to enterprise. Enterprise circle as a sign to change course."

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• May 23, 2025@kwa | Personal health in stages.

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  "I'm seeing now like I know they were important before and I'm starting to see how overall how important they can be, where they need to be and how much age is starting to matter. And it's not like again I'm not at like this, this place where I'm completely debilitated or have severe issues all the time, but little things are starting to pop up. And I say this somebody who's mostly like eating healthy, you know, my, my."

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• May 22, 2025@kwa | Somebody to Lean On

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  "But the same question that I posted on here before about like, what would you tell your parents to do differently? Something along those lines. The kids had really interesting responses the seventh grader. So that encouraged me. But I think I will also try this with them now. We do executive functioning related stuff at the school I'm at now. The school I'm at, I work full time right now is predominantly white."

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• May 22, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Old Man Walking, What School Could Look Like

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  "Because I find like sometimes with classes, you know, we do, I think it's structured in a way where we're teaching stuff, is often taught to teach to take up the time allotted for class. Now my school is slightly different that the high schoolers. A teacher can say to the high schoolers, we're just not going to have class today. You have this project, you can go anywhere on campus and do it, which I think is awesome."

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