Is a footprint. I teach a kid's digital footprint, what you post online.

But believe it or not, you leave a, you know, carbon footprint too. Like, where do you leave behind as they say, you know, how we've lived versus what we've left behind? Alrighty folks.

Welcome back to transacting value. We're encouraging dialogue from different perspectives to unite over shared values. Our theme for season 4 is intrinsic values. So what your character is doing when you look yourself in the mirror.

Now if you're new to the podcast, welcome. And if you're a continuing listener, welcome back. Today, we're talking our March core values of accomplishment, consistency, and endurance with doctor Ryan Reid.

Now without further ado, folks on Porter, I'm your host, and this is transacting value. Doctor Reid First of all, for the sake of brevity, and I suppose a little bit of more, I don't know, relateability.

Can I just call you Ryan? Is that cool with you? You may. You may park. You may. Alright. Alright. First of all though, thank you for this opportunity, man.

I know you're giving up some time out of your day to share some wisdom and insight But given your experience in podcasting, in teaching, in teaching, in teaching, podcasting, and all things above I really appreciate the opportunity, man.

So thank you. You're welcome.

You're welcome. Now, before we get rolling into any particular direction, I think it's important to note especially for everybody listening. That since you and I are on a video call, it's a little bit easier for us to communicate.

And I've got a pretty good idea, you know, the things you've accomplished and what you've done, but They may not. So let's start there. The floor is yours for a couple minutes, but, you know, who are you?

Where are you from? And what sort of things have shaped your perspective? Well, I am, of course, Ryan Reid. I am actually from Northern Illinois here. I the burnout was born in California and then later on my parents' movers.

So I've been kind of up there. I kind of grown up a a little town of Stickemar, which was actually Northern Illinois University, Cal, which my Appleton parents went to, and they ended up working 4 years years later.

So I kind of grew up nice little small town with my grandparent. Pretty much just kinda going up being a good person.

Was always told that, you know, work your best and, you know, be nice people best you can, but, you know, you're not always gonna be perfect. You're not always gonna be meeting the nicest people. And some time very well.

So kind of went through that pretty much had a pretty much warm normal lifestyle going through, you know, early today, the high school, normal teen dramas, whatever. I went to college at Northern, of course, not too much.

Of course, if you can't see in this video call, I got an old northern husky here on my sweatshirt we're all wearing here. So I'm really going to NIEU today. Anyhow. Anyhow, I went in originally as a major in theater.

I did have a background in business. And I pretty much went through that. I actually did a couple of shows with the Bailey with theater. Pretty much late 90, I should say I was in school. I graduated 96. So in, like, nineties there.

So I did a couple things in there. I did some voice over work for the museum of science industry and for some learning videos by professors back in the old days when flashed was the coolest thing around for animation.

I was doing voices for gravity, and I was a pipe that talked about pressure and everything. So a lot of learning back then and tried some other stuff here, did some extra work in the movie that were filmed in Chicago.

Unfortunately, never really came about anything, so I kinda directed between a couple of jobs for several years. I worked in healthcare, worked in food industry.

And then finally, I decided I mean, my wife said I would go back to school, and I wanted to educate vacation for technology, which was always a big thing when we always loved the movies, the glamor thing.

I used to do web pages, and Boy, web pages way back in the late nineties, early 2000 for Wiki's and all that existed. And kinda went in education.

Unfortunately, I lost my job in the middle of it too with a baby on the way. So I kind of worked several other jobs such as safety aids in schools, tutoring. Another program, eventually, I finished my master's.

I worked there there a technology facilitator for a new iPad program back in 2012 back when when the ones were starting to become more popular, like iPads couple of years before Chromebook did.

Was at a private school for a couple years. Unfortunately, budgets got blood to me, leading to another school. We were a charter school. That changed off as I was in trying to finish up my doctor at at that time.

No. I oh, yeah. I got my doctor. I was over at Zelman, and I was there for about 5 years. I worked with future business leads of America cub. We kinda lost pieces on that, and people graduated. It was nice.

We started the broadcast department with filming. We started a student podcast there, which worked along with the district and teacher podcast. COVID happened. We worked with a lot more pieces on that for digital learning and so forth.

About last year. Opportunity opened up at where I live into in a school that seriously 7 blocks of walking distance from my house. And then a new business technology teacher.

So I left there to take over as that position. And we wanted up a recoating up our media park because the media teacher had left and were works with our own podcast there as well as doing the medias that's here.

We're starting off low. We're hoping by next year or 2. We're really kicking up high here at General Kingston. So That's kind of my little story there.

Well, congratulations. I think initiative goes a long way, but especially when you're talking about on top of just your own drive and ambition to either start a career or, I mean, start a podcast obviously.

But when you introduce high schoolers into that formula, namely not your own. Right. I feel like it's a whole different level of complexity.

So it says quite a bit about your tolerance, I think. Yeah. I have to say it's so funny. We we get these teenagers, and they'll do their tic Tacx, their B Reels, their Insta Stories, and stuff.

And then he told them to actually do something like a pod a cast or a bit. They're like, oh, I can't do this. I'm a I'm a little worried.

I don't like to out of my voice and I'm like, you were just trying to do a little thing to, like, you know, at least a minaj and you were trying to do a couple other things or you were talking about a couple of strains on what you were eating for lunch.

You're trying to tell me you can't sit down and talk for 6 months in front of a microphone and maybe talk about prom or maybe talk about some, you know, great athletic fees to get ready for track and field season, what's some good exercises?

They look at me like, oh, well, okay. Maybe I could do that.

So it's really been a story trying to guide them to that. So 1 of my old science teachers and 1 of her great roles years ago. It's her little flat speech pathway last year, unfortunately, from that ovarian cancer to very young age.

But she always said if you worked on trying to teach students to be better people, the rest will usually fall in And that's definitely something I have worked with for the last couple years. It's trying to make students work a math day.

When I was working at my 1 I was work when I was working at my private school, I had the old class, This is a good kid. They're not perfect. They'll do things. They might cheat. They might do whatever at night.

Nothing crazy. Then I went to another school which is on the other side track, but some of those kids were lucky if they had, you know, bed to sleep in the night before. So it was really interesting how we worked with a lot of those.

So I kinda really got a lot with the students creating rapport. And peace to the spirit. You know, kind of the values I myself grew up with the best I could was just trying to be a good person.

Doesn't mean I didn't lose patience at times and whatnot, but you know, it was really trying to work with that and something I've learned, especially the last couple years, even switching schools after 5 years.

You gotta be patient with a lot of these students because, you know, Some will fall right in place. I love it. Some will more.

They're just gonna fight you. They're just gonna fight you and just see what your boundaries are. So eventually, gonna work a little harder. Yeah. I think a lot of that stuff, though, obviously, some of that comes with age.

From you as a teacher and from them as a student, just working on the relationships and and whatnot, but you mentioned that some of these kids also, you know, sit behind a microphone to talk, let's just say, as a monologue for 5, 6 minutes about track and field or the cafeteria or or something that they're familiar with in and around the school seems different than making a TikTok or an Instagram reel or a Snapchat video something that they're normally used to.

Do you think that maybe more because of, I guess, a reliance on superficiality now as opposed to say, I don't know, more intentional conversation or more intentional monologues.

You know, that's actually a really interesting question a lot of people too.

I mean, I believe it or not, I I show my age. I do show up and write it on a key. That's always funny when some people say, you know, I never knew I had to worry you know, what I ate and ordered at Burger King.

So let's, like, versus some of these kids know now with their phone versus, like, hey, I'm eating at this wonderful restaurant.

Yeah. I'm an Instagram there. I'm gonna a little text, hey, check out what this, you know, awesome food I've eaten at, the place I've never eaten at.

And then, you know, we're just as much, but I think it's awful too. It's like, you know, we most of us in our age range and older were kind of, like, you know, saw the beginnings of all this. For them, like, my own son is 12 years old.

He was born into this kind of realm of where that was in the very early days of social media or part of it or away the technology and the mobile tech, you know, like, here, I'm wearing my Apple Watch here.

No. We're not sponsored by Apple guys. I just like these Apple products. But anyhow, It's an example where they always say when you're born into it.

It's just because of the natural part of life and sometimes people don't know how to interact that. But, you know, I always think about it there was somebody that did a great example as a friend of mine.

He was at a conference, but he showed pictures of people on a commuter train in 2016, and people got their phones out, checking, whatever, tablets, whatever.

But then he took that same commuter train, though it wasn't the same commuter train from the 19 sixties and everybody's reading a book for it has their head to newspaper. You don't even see any conversations going on.

So, you know, it's kind of interesting how we always have our fixation on something whether it's media or stuff in areas versus the days when people wouldn't do. But, you know, you have long trips, you have something.

I mean, not people stream movies and TV shows on their phones versus, like, I remember when I had my first phone. Like, I text the call, but nobody would respond. And I'd be like, 0II wanna pick up a book or whatever.

Now, you know, people got, like, 1 hour commute on a trainer bus is like, well, there's no really video I really need to talk to. I got some free service. Now I'm gonna watch that close episode of Star Trek.

You know, I'm gonna catch up on that Netflix series and everything else too. And nobody bothers them. They're kinda like, oh, yeah. In the phone, first, you'll get some people like, oh, man, you never have your face out of a phone.

And then, also, in 2 seconds later, like, my my daughter just replied pictures of my new grandbaby. It's like, there's a difference between media overconsumption and just media productivity.

Sure. Really? Yeah. Well, first of all, congratulations. But, secondly, that's a cool point you brought up with the commuter train. Because then, really, how far have we actually come?

You know what I mean? It may not be a newspaper. Now it's a phone. It may not be a phone then. It was a newspaper. But I mean, all things considered, you know, social behaviors are still similar. Let me back up for a second.

Before I get too carried away, they really are. Yeah. And, I mean, you can I'm gonna jump into sci fi here in just a second, but I don't wanna miss this first segment of the show. It's called Developing Character. Developing Character.

And this ultimately helps guide the conversation. So it's 2 questions. And for everybody listening, this may sound familiar. But if not, Ryan, you can answer these questions as in-depth or as vulnerable as you're willing to be.

It's totally up to you. This first question, though, What were some of your values growing up as a teenager? Some of my values were pretty much was to try to be the best person you can be.

I mean, everybody has their own sites or later. I mean, everybody gets raised differently different ones. Me, I mean, I grew up both suit with my grandparents and my, you know, my mother was single for a number of years.

I the divorce, and then I'd see my father. And, you know, I we do that little areas too. But they always kind of say, just try to be the best person you can.

That's kind of what I tried to be all the time. And also, 1 Valley was China fun. And, I mean, even times now and even times then, we don't live in always the perfect days.

I mean, yesterday, I was in the best mood ever, and I don't know if it was the great mountain dew either Frank or doing a radio talk to my school, or it was just that kind of day on Friday, or if you wanna say Picy and I'd probably want to get further astrology people.

But it was just I was in a great mood. Today, you know, I did things and it's been pretty good. But, you know, there are some days where, you know, with the values we're trying to find the best in all days.

And unfortunately, you know, we have very bad days. I've had very, very bad days, and, you know, I'm just not a friend. Elizabeth Berz will be around, like, yeah, whatever.

Stuff like that. But I definitely growing up, I was definitely trying to enjoy what you had. I'm like, you know, try to have fun. And, you know, I'm trying to treat the person better here as days.

That that kind of, you know, would you be willing to help that person if you saw them stuck and your answer is yes, then, you know, kinda try to equal that ideas in your head.

And it accounts for a lot. I think a lot of that's understated, but it makes a big difference. Right?

When you're talking about how your mood affects other people, even if it's not in your actions or in your words just as a demeanor, when you walk into a room as things shift and change, a lot of that just rubs off on other people and they pick up social cues off of your demeanor.

So accounts for a lot. But let's step up a little bit then more to the present where question number 2, so trying to have fun you know, being a good person or at least the best person, the best version of you that you can be.

How does that translate to now? What are some of your present day values that you try to live by?

I think present day is a bunch of more interesting ideas too. Like, when I come in the classroom, I've always tried to, you know, be in a good mood and kind of had the classroom beep baud, you know, really establish things.

But, you know, the kids do understand, and I'm not having up, and it's very interesting how they reflect. So, you know, sometimes I always tell the kids too. Like, you know, I do my best every day to teach you. It's like, don't worry.

It's like, you know when I'm disappointed you, but y'all have to know about that. I'm very happy ready to go. Suddenly you lay the law down, but you then could pat him on the back of next minute for, like, a good job done.

And it does happen. I had a conversation with my son today, and then know, he's the normal pre teen, early days, 12 year old feeling. Somebody talks about within a day. I said, we're talking. And sometimes, that's great.

That's fantastic. Or, yeah, tell me more. You know, it's good to put on that too, but I think it it is easy because sometimes we get it done versus as they say when it's not your family and when it is your family.

Like I said, you're you're more willing to be more authoritative and talk at home because it's your kids, your family. And then when you're with other ones, you still gotta keep that at the same time.

Like, yeah. Because they're technically not my kids, so I really can't say or do something like that or it's kinda like, I'm not very happy with you right now.

And can you either have this conversation or we can table it? And I think it's still gonna be there, but don't think it's just gonna pretend to go away.

I definitely think that did too. But, you know, if you've asked me where I've been over the years, even some jobs that were probably definitely ones that was not too sad to leave once the potty died a long time ago too.

It was always was, well, you know, Ryan at least tried to make the best out of it. They kinda mixed my day a little better.

So It's that point stuff that I've tried to do, but at the same time, it's that always the best. Well, it takes time in practice too. Alrighty folks sit tight and we'll be right back on transacting value. Alrighty folks.

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And with always, well, you know, you're randomly tried to make the best out of it. They kinda mixed my day a little better. So it's definitely something I've tried to do, but at the same time, it's that always the best.

Well, it takes time in practice too. You said that there's certain ways that you can talk to or you can treat other people's kids. And it's interesting you bring that up.

I was working on a project earlier today actually. About whether or not you can or should, I guess, teach values in schools. And I think there's a lot of reliance now present day at least from my perspective.

That schools aren't just places for academic growth anymore. It's also discipline or cultivating physical prowess or mental acuity or spiritual well-being.

You know, there's a lot more into a school environment now than just teaching things to help you academically pass tests, where the responsibility, or I guess, the burden also falls to the schools, to fill a parental role or to the school staff to fill a parental role.

And I'm sure that gets difficult too.

Yeah. I mean, I mean, you're raising a really good point. I mean, and there's several books, believe it or not and talks to her. It's like, you know, if you think about it, the average teacher is with the average child.

Doesn't matter doesn't matter the ethnicity, it doesn't matter the age. They are with that child 8 to 9 hours a day, whether the parent is at home or at working.

You know, you know, working from home or, you know, dealing with the 3 year old sibling at home and by the 6 year old's out, you know, at kindergarten or first play.

And it's really interesting is some people always thought, like, all the teachers didn't do or they should be doing this, but they shouldn't be doing that.

But they're actually working much more on the culture. They're working about how they up, you know, not only that, but, you know, them trying to be better people as well as learn different facts and everything.

Something I always said too is I wanted to find students to always take something outside the wall. I don't just wanna to come in -- Mhmm. -- pass the test or not pass the test and then forget about it 2 weeks later.

You know? So I was just doing a lesson yesterday and they said, oh, no. We kinda talked about that 6 weeks ago. I'm like, guys, I kind of build on these things.

I tell you all the time. I want you to take this outside of the classroom and whether it's to understand how to make sure you keep, you know, at least the the money in your out to, like, oh, you know, my water pipe just broke.

I need to go get some money out and fix that to, like, oh, you know what?

I I thought something like that. You know, I wanna run my own sealant company. I should make some really good post that I could print with a free program and just run some off and get them around town or get them on my social media.

So it's really interesting about trying to I shouldn't say, like, really raise them but guide them guide them to more areas too. Because in the long run, too, we we can't control every situation.

We can't control people. I've had students that have had very horrible home lives and school was a refuge for them and I had ones where home life was fantastic and they just found school very boring.

And then, you know, later on they moved in life, they, you know, thank you for teaching me that because I needed to know that.

Like, I had a good thing, but I never really saw what's the point of school was till later on. It was kinda teaching me what's out there besides, what goes outside my own front door.

Yeah. And it said that it's something I learned my doing. I was reading everything. I wasn't ready for being put down in jobs. I wasn't ready to be bullied.

I was not a prayer prayer for other things, but, you know, I had a lot teachers and, you know, adults that kind of try to help me deal with those situations. But they also know too, they sometimes didn't know all the right answers.

And sometimes they say, sometimes they get a figure amount. As as a quote a line for science fiction there and Star Trek McCarvey says that is an excellent question.

When you find the answer, please tell me because I've been trying for 50 years to find that answer. Bring it up, sci fi is an interesting point too, though.

Between science fiction and teaching, I think there's obviously a lot of commonalities. Because as a teacher, in in any grade, in any capacity, in my opinion, around the world, that you're obviously teaching in the present moment.

But a lot of what you're learning travels it's almost like it's traveling at sort of the speed of sound, so to speak. And then as future us catches up, we start to realize the value of what was taught.

We start to remember what we heard. Right? But in the moment, you almost don't even hear it. You know, how many teachers names do you remember maybe a few? How many things that you remember them teaching?

Do you remember now? Maybe not as many, until like you said experientially something happens and you're like, oh my gosh, mister Worthington, thank you or doctor Reid, thank you for that, you know.

And it's years later. In talking about experiential stuff though and science fiction, people created those things.

You know, you brought up Star Trek, for example, I don't wanna insult anybody listening here, but a lot of that's made up And so in that regard, as you're thinking about, let's say, science fiction or Star Trek in general, art mimics life, And so a lot of what Jean Rodenberry and some other producers and directors put into that series.

It does. Yeah. It carries a lot of social constructs and emotional baggage and confrontations in conflict resolution and critical thought that happens in everyday life too.

So, Ryan, I'm curious, do you use or how often do you use, say science fiction or any sort of fiction or or imagination based things as examples for what you're trying to teach instead of just a textbook.

Well, and it's funny because I'm not really textbook teacher.

If you come to my class or the textbooks we use, we use to keep our Pro RB3D principally cool nicely and they don't bend after the students get done. I don't use any textbooks. I do online curriculum.

There's, you know, digital stuff and so forth. But I even joke because I said that, you know, I have a friend Matt Miller who has a book called ditched that textbook. And I always say, see, I ditched the textbook.

I used to reuse it, you know, 3 hour of recycling guys, reduced reuse recycle here. Right? Were you using that textbook? But I've actually used it for years. I mean, I do tech and business that I've used a lot a lot of things.

Actually, I'm like, main lessons start off with a quote from somebody, and they've gone everywhere from zig zigler to believe it or not, our our good old buddy Frank Welker, you know, the voice of megatron, you know, Fred, Yeah.

He did that. Doing all that fun stuff. Something a friend of mine. Something a friend of mine said, like, a lot of interesting quotes. Yeah. This guy also wrote the avengers for 15 years. He did. That's an interesting quote.

Like, what? Let's talk about insurance. He says it's time to get going and get covered. Kurt Music. Could he basically think about how he dealt with health and how he's very he had happy at at those contracts.

So he'd have that health insurance to deal with his bad health over the years. What you found out was mercury poisoning from his settlements and his teeth for several years. But I killed his health for a long time. He was very happy.

He had that insurance and stuff from comics and TV and films to help him during those years too. Actually where the quote is. So then I explain what's really the point of having an insurance. So, you know, I've done things like that.

I've done it to where we do a type of program and I say, you know, we guys do this. We gotta think of it in this kind of a case. And right now, I'm doing in marketing. We're going ahead and doing health marketing.

We use the website, but at the same time, we do what, you know, QR codes, which if you think about it, it's cancelled a device and it plays a a video in front of you like on Star Wars or Star Trek or StarGate.

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Right now, I'm doing the marketing going ahead and doing health marketing.

We use the website, but that's the same time we do what, you know, QR codes, which if you think about it, you scan with a device and it plays a a video in front of you, like, on Star Wars or Star Trek or StarGate.

And all of a sudden they're, like, you know, I think a few years ago, oh, that'll never happen yet. Here it was. It's like it's the same story.

It's just yeah. We're just using a puppet. It's no different than that episode of Mandalorian season 2 where he walked up to the poster and he moved his hand around and also a little message appeared from them.

The only difference is we use a phone or a watch to do it. It plays on the advice, but it's like same technology.

It's just in this case, like, it's a hologram. But Yeah. We have that. So, you know, people that, oh, I'm putting that together now. I'm seeing what you meant by that. That makes sense, Audrey. So, yeah, IIII like to do.

I'm a very big pop culture guy too, so I like to throw things out. And sometimes I bring up other lines and so forth. But, you know, my background is theater, so it's kinda it it kind of folds very nicely with teaching.

Yeah. I'm sure it does. And you you mentioned when we talked earlier that you had a podcast at 1 point where you covered the green lantern core, and I don't wanna jump too deep into that.

But now that you're bringing up similarities between, I guess, you could say, sides fiction and entertainment and pop culture and then actual life and humanities or business even. But here's something that I think stood out to me too.

As far as the green lantern corps is concerned, for everybody listening, green lantern were talking through they put on a ring and it's hope and it's free will and it's everything good in the universe to combat fear and hate and all these other things.

And then now they say they sector off the universe and save everybody. So mean, when we're talking specifically here, even on transacting value. Right? The value of virtue is essentially what's powering the lantern corps. Right?

The whole, the courage, the humility, the gratitude, all those things that we say are good values to have against living in fear and depression and the the sort of things that, you know, degrade your spirit and put you into more depressive moods and those types of things.

Like, what was his name? I think you have purple hair Senestro. Was he in green lantern? No. He's in there, but he he's in the yellow lanterns.

He doesn't have green hair dark. Dark here. III can be here all day going through the whole the whole genre of all the way to answer. You know what? 8000000000 dollars to the way to help George?

So, yeah, he had a yellow lantern and it was based on feeding off of people's fears. Right? And feeding off of people's depression and counterbalancing the rest of obviously the green lantern core.

Right? And and again, a lot of that stuff mirrors life. Misery loves company. You know? And there's I think a reason why a lot of those -- Right.

What would you call them, antagonists in the series, feed off of those things and grow stronger, faster than the Langton core is able to until they you know, find ways to beat them.

But I think it's the same thing in real life. You know, as people, especially in your case, as a high school teacher, I'm sure you've seen on a bad day where 1 high schooler has a rub day, eventually, it spreads.

If you don't try to find ways to curtail it, you know, measure your local company. Yeah. And I mean, believe it or not there's a huge thing than classes.

It doesn't matter the class, but you have some kids are saying, you know, I'm failing. I don't really see a point in this class. You should fail with me. And then for some reason, they say, oh, you know, that's not a bad idea.

They may not really understand it, but they start doing it. And it can quickly spread because people always wonder, like, oh, you know, people get they there were Jim Katz, this is his name is a, you know, principal and everything else.

He always said, you know, when we have an issue, we go seek them to help. Why don't the kids have probably send them to the hallway? And which is very good.

But at the same time, it's sometimes gonna go, like, we go with them to the hallway to actually discuss the issue and it's becoming a problem where it could be infecting our classes and learning, whereas they say, knowing to, like, let's try this again and restart you.

Like, nope. I gave you those chances. We are still not working.

I hate to do this, but we're heading to the office or, you know what, they're giving up the phone. And that's over there. That's over this needs to be finished or just like, you know, guys, maybe we need to separate.

I mean, you have you here and you here and you there because apparently when you guys are together, everybody else is infected, and it's unfortunately not doing very well.

And it's very interesting. Like, when we talk about Green Life, we all talk to which is patient. Sometimes there is a point to where you have a patience.

You try to start again. I've had students where, you know, I had them for 1 class and, oh, boy, it was not easy the whole semester. And then we'd have that same student the next semester. Actually, you know what?

We're restarting it. We're gonna try this over again. Maybe we've all learned something. I know I have. Let's see if you've learned something and we go from there. And I I had to wear that turned into a better situation.

Sometimes it's, like, it didn't work from day 1, didn't do well the day 93. And then 2 years later, it's like, nope. Now we're on day 396, and it's still just not working. But at the same time as, you know, it's also being proactive.

Try to curtail that from happening because when you know somebody is either a troublemaker who does like this last shout, you don't wanna put them with same minds or ones where they can really start bringing those people down too.

So, you know, it just comes into that. You know, it's it's working with them best you can. So sometimes, it it has a happy ending.

Something that just hasn't ending. I can't call the bad ending. I've lost students to, you know, car accidents and health and cancer and suicide, unfortunately, over the years, and it's always been a different story.

And somewhere, you know, you saw the writing wall that was gonna happen and some was, like, I can't believe that happened to them.

Like, holy cow, like, of all people, why did that have to happen to that person? You know, it's something I'll take. People and think about teaching, you know. I hate to people always think like, oh, you start your teacher.

Doesn't matter if they were 24 straight out of school. Just maybe 1 year classroom, or they've been teaching 90 years. You're like, I'm the young guy. I'm gonna outlive them or I'll probably never see them again.

And then I'll tell them it's a couple years later and sometimes the teacher does outlive students for various reasons things that cannot be controlled, but also that's something that also can do too because I know I lost a student to cancer many years ago.

No fault of his own. Just unfortunately hit him at a young age at 23, as I was and he I had had him. He was 1 of my first jobs, but, unfortunately, he did not survive. He luckily was young or even kind of big girl before he passed away.

But, you know, that was something too, and he always was 1 of those guys where I always thought, like, you know, that was somebody, you know, he had great thing. He was not the smartest guy. He was not low.

He always brought everybody else up and, you know, I met his wife at the funeral and I thought, you know, same thing like mine's happened too, but you know, she said there's some I don't think he ever mentioned you, but it's nice that you came because his brother had you too, and the brother invited me.

So I said, yeah, I'd come too. But, you know, I never knew what happened till after left classroom than I had gotten the story, but the brother had had me and say, you know, mister Reed, I like, did he pass late to the x, y, and z?

Could you come from the visitation if it's briefly? I haven't caught here in a couple years. That's I'm more than happy to come.

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Yeah. I'd come too, but, you know, I never knew what happened to him after he left the class even then I had gotten the story, but the brother had had me and say, you know, mister Reid, I like that he passed late to the x y and z.

Could he come from the visitation if it's complete? I'd be having a hot here in a couple of years. I said, I'm more than happy to come.

It's something that does build up. And like I said, that relationship with students or teachers and students or teachers and each other too, I ended up visiting a person I had worked with for 2 years.

They quit to take a different 1, and then I had heard through their doc Potter who got a hold of me because they had seen the notes that they know she passed away.

She unfortunately, I dealt with. Less than, you know, when we feel like close to come to visitation, I said, I don't wanna be more than happy to do that, but seeing people I haven't seen in a couple of years.

So it was a -- Yeah. -- it was a nice reunion of connections work with you.

But, you know, bring us up out of those tragic situations and not to keep ranting, but I I was just online the other day. And I saw a coworker and their daughter, unfortunately, born very prematurely, like, 5 months prematurely.

Oh. And, you know, nice to see a picture of her. It was she has she doesn't post a very very rarely, even the husband doesn't really post very much on social.

Media in any form, whether it's Facebook or Instagram. But she was getting these these these presences. It was so nice to see this little girl who had so many health issues, so many operations. I mean, can't hear very well.

She just never hearing her eyes were messed up because it really works. So she wears glasses and has correction. But to see in almost 90 year old, just so happy to get these new dresses that at Christmas time.

And the fact that she is playing soccer. She's playing soccer in the spring was just like, that's just that story you just want because I remember when that all had happened and we were all like, 4 each other.

And it's, like, years later, like, just to hear that and everything else too, and then it just it was good. But that was 1 of those examples too. We do lead all ourselves to we do relieve our relationship. There is a footprint.

I teach a kid digital footprint of what you post online. But believe it or not, you leave a, you know, carbon footprint too. Like, what do you leave behind as they say, you know, how we've lived versus what we've left behind?

So this this girl obviously survived. The premature girl, Yep. Premiums her. The shoes weren't she. The premium. Yeah. And then here she is, you know, 9 years old.

Like, a normal 9 year old. Yeah. She has a hearing and glasses, but If you looked at it, it would never think any different. Man, that's great news. I thought for sure that story was something like that. That's a great story there.

Yeah. That's huge. Good. Well, I mean, you know, to your point, right? It's like you said, you have to find something in the classroom in the lesson or from the teacher or from the conversation to take outside the walls.

And it doesn't always have to be academic. Sometimes it's just interpersonal skills. Sometimes it's mutual support, mutual trust, and mutual respect, you know.

Sometimes it's how to read those things. And having the amount of mental endurance, I think, even on the bad days to be able to work with kids and just convey that.

Right? Even if academics is a little bit off that day, obviously, like the stories you just brought up, counts for a lot just as humans learning how to be better humans, you know.

That's huge, man. Mhmm. Especially in high school. There's a lot of other things happening in high school. Okay. Yeah. There were a lot of that time too when the teacher had the school is all connected.

So you went from Alabama. And they always joke there's 1 of those schools where it's, like, when I started school, I was on that side of the building. Now I've graduated him on.

This time. So, you know, you you got a lot of it, whatever. But it was also at that time that it happened on the level of eighth graders and freshman really came for that teacher after her daughter born prematurely.

So it was a wonderful outreach, you know, things from getting gift cards to get supplies together and so forth. And it's wonderful to see that too, and then a lot of those kids now have hard to believe her.

Out of I I had to think about, like, the dark is turning tenth this year. And I just think, those kids are now 25, which then maybe say, oh, I feel old. But was a wonderful thing. And some of them got on too.

I I do a lot of them on social media or maybe I've heard through the grapevine, but they've gone on through some very good things like some will not be teachers and some actually when work as a community member to whether it was a as a pastor or maybe just as a community leader in general or, like, boys club or girls club or maybe just working in the community too.

And units all those deep plan are weaving the way back then. Yeah. It's like you said earlier from that principle, and I I forget her name, but if you teach students to be better people, the rest will take care of itself.

And it's almost like, now I I feel like anyways, teaching students and the perspective I'm coming from for everyone listening. So my son's 8, and so we talk about what he's learning in school.

Here in the States, but it almost seems to me like what people are learning, what students are learning in school now is emphasized as the importance of the academics to pass the test.

But it sounds an awful lot to me at least like what you're describing is the importance of the academics to teach people how to be better people and oh by the way they'll also be able to pass the tests.

Right. Yeah. And I think just what gets forgotten so much is people are so much worried about I mean, I didn't sure. I mean, like I said, I would I would just talk to my son this morning about.

You know, if he would have gotten 2 more points, his gray would have gotten over just the little area because, you know, even as a parent, I'm, like, I want my son to do his best, but I want him to try the best.

But it's, like, 1 of the outerwear so there and it's gonna probably be a hard work, you know, getting towards the end of the year himself.

Give me a second. It's gonna get harder for him. I mean, now he's in middle school now. Now they're switching those classes, but it's like, in 3 years when he's at the high school or me as, which then he's like, oh, great.

My dad teaches here, you know, versus my other score. My mom's hot there. And now I'm you know, he's like, he's got that 3 years of freedom you know, as far as versus, like, 5 because that was early on the majority worked with.

It didn't take me a while to explain how the schools work about, like, you know, you have some schools where it's, like, at the big town.

And there's, like, 6 different elementary, but sometimes it's middle school, high school. So you have all these kids meeting together versus someone. But, well, I was with them in kindergarten.

And then we went to this school. We were still in the third grade, and then we went to school. We were all together. And now here we are at moving on, military college, working world, whatever. And so forth, and that's the difference.

Like, some of the kids who see each other, even if they're maybe a year or 2 behind, there's that time where they remember them whether it's a sibling or not a sibling or maybe with a friend or maybe with as they call it a school mentor.

Right? Like, the third grader is showing some things around for the first grader.

And then, of course, years later, that fifth grader is always, yes, through with the third grader, then they're at the end of, you know, Great. And it's a it's a wonderful program too, but they also helped through that transition too.

Because, you know, I I can think back in my days when I was my son's age in 6 grade for I I loved my teacher. She was she was a wonderful teacher. I I know she's still pretty good. She had ended up having 2 boys of herself later on.

She was a young teacher. But, you know, I just remember 6 grade 3 subjects. I was doing fantastic. And the other 1, it was just, like, oh, man. It was, like, 1 of the take the textbook and hit myself over the head.

And then I got the seventh grade, and then that same subject. And a different thing is, I had teacher I did fantastic in that subject, and then I ended up falling behind in a different subject.

And then 2 years later, I ended this subject, and I was falling behind in this subject. So, you know, that's something I have to do.

And as a parent, it does do is trying to be very patient with them, trying to do it, but at the same time as, like, I just want what's best for my kid. Alrighty folks sit tight and we'll be right back on transacting value.

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So, you know, that's something I have to do and it, you know, as a parent, it does too is trying to be very patient with them, trying to do it, but at the same time is, like, I just want what's best for my kid.

And he has to learn something academically. And then at the same time, I'm very happy with his STEM teacher or his health teachers teach them to with academics to social emotional to community.

And I think that's just as important as trying to understand pythagrium theorem and I'm not talking about math feature of some of my best friends are math features.

But yeah. I think it goes in as people too focus, like, you should be reading this and not should be reading this.

You should be understanding this and passing this test, but you shouldn't be learning this. And it's kinda like, no. It's all fit together, guys.

Yeah. You know, you which when you read something like this about, which is a true story, can't have effect on how I do math teacher was, hey, you know, when I was reading that story, this guy had a hard time in math too.

And he wanted to be an owner and he couldn't barely string to go to 3 words or this person was dyslexic and then look on them with their open their own business, have 3 kids and making 60000 dollars a year.

So maybe there is hope for me too, even though I you know, unfortunately, my brain just doesn't work that way.

So it all connects altogether in the long run. Both academically in the point system and the old textbook too, what you experience and where do you take that outside the classroom?

Oh, yeah. Experiential learning goes a long way. But obviously, it's gonna take somebody to guide that. Right? Because obviously, the lessons taught aren't necessarily the lessons learned.

So ensuring that what you're trying to get across is, you know, that helps too. But Ryan, for the sake of time, man, I I really appreciate this opportunity to sit and talk for a little bit.

Ultimately, about some of your values and how to be the best version of you, how to instill that in other people, and then just a love for learning.

Obviously, that passion's pretty obvious in you, but in how you've been able to do that for other people consistently and and sort of bridge that, it's quite an accomplishment in my opinion too.

And so If anybody wants to reach out for you, I know you've written a couple books.

Obviously, you've got your podcast, the Pixel Classroom, and other podcasts that you also co host But if people wanna reach out to you, get in touch with you, get advice from you, whatever it is, how can people do that?

Well, there's 2 best ways I actually have a website which is the pixel cluster packet, the directory classrooms next level dot wordpress dot com.

You can find me there. All my stuff is It's been a blog. It's hard to believe. It's been 11 years since I started. It doesn't have the posted, but that's kinda 1 here.

You can find me on social media. I'm pretty much on everything at RIN7, read, and my last name is, like, you read a book, READ. Some people always like, well, I looked up read, and I couldn't find you, like, did you spell it?

Right? Like, what do you mean? For EAD. That's how it is. So I'm over there. You can find me at Ryan 3178 on YouTube, and I do a streaming and reviews shows on there.

I'll actually as the next 2 months go on here, my own podcast here, I'll actually be doing what's called summer of learning where I'll be doing a little something, little bits every week on my YouTube, which will be completely streamed, left on there.

They won't really I'll put a mix together by the fall.

I usually record my podcast from fall to end of spring, and then I kinda take the summer off and just do my own little projects as I always tell the kids, like, guys, once I put in your final grades in here, I'm done teaching until July fifth.

July fifth is when I start planning out the next school the new school year, but it's like, I have to take that time out.

So, yeah, I'm there. I mean, I'm on LinkedIn. I mean, like I said, right now, my new live streaming with the pixel classroom is a private 1 because it does go to all features right now too.

But I'm on different social medias for different reasons depending on things personally to professionally.

I was very, very active a couple of years ago, especially when COVID started and a couple other things in the last year, year and a half, some platforms have gotten a little bit more vulgar to where on there, but I'm not on there with I like on.

I'm sorry, guys. I'm on TikTok.

And other ones, I just kind of always there in some 1 or another. So I around. But, yeah, they usually just look me up. Best way is to look through my website, which is, like I said, pixel classroom, which is classroom's next level.

That word, press that comment. It's actually the best way to find out what I'm doing out in the world. Perfect. And for everybody listening, we'll have all of those linked in the show notes as well so you'd be able to jump in there.

Click see more. Click show more depending on your platform. And you'll be able to read the description for this conversation, but also in there will be the links to Ryan's information so you can reach out to him.

But again, brother, I really appreciate the opportunity. We had, like I said, some connection issues, but it's not the end of the world. It was still a great conversation.

And there's a lot of relationship consideration as well as I think perhaps we Yeah. Of course. Of course. And being able to showcase so much, we went from Star Trek to Green Lantern to modern day classrooms, the teaching at school.

So it was good. I I enjoyed this. So alright. No. Actually, I don't have ADHD. I just don't run. I that's for my mother. It's the old classic, you know, if you wanna go astrology, a sun iced teas little moments in time.

Otherwise, if not, people like, oh, that's just how Ryan is. I gotta have a conversation with my lamp right behind me in this video. Hey, Lamp. What's going on? Yeah. We got LED.

We're good. We're right. It's nice and sunny outside. And sometimes, you know, my students look at me sometimes. Like, do you always talk to things? They're like, I'm like, you talk to things. They went, Okay. You got me there.

Yeah. Well, I I appreciate it. And to everybody listening, I appreciate you stopping in as well. Listen into our conversation today and obviously talking our core values for March of accomplishment, consistency, and endurance.

And to that end, I'd like to thank At this point, comic books, graphic novels, Ryan, all of your friends for providing you inspiration to this conversation.

And ultimately, men your ability to teach especially today when it comes to bridging a, what'd you call it digital footprint with a carbon footprint I think bringing all those things into this conversation, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as exciting as it was.

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