Parents & teachers, a MASSIVE problem that is being brought to the surface right now, evidenced by how challenging At Home Learning is going, is the LACK OF ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION. Here I rant a bit as I break this KEY concept down fo you to help shed somelight on how we might better serve kids. – – – 💚Love my work and want to donate?: https://courses.sethperler.com/donate/ 🧠TEFOS- Did you know I run The Executive Function Online Summit? Register for free here: https://executivefunctionsummit.com/ ✏️EF101- A crash course in Executive Function for Parents, Teachers & Professionals. Learn more: https://courses.sethperler.com/get-ef101/ 📚UGYG- UpgrAde Your GrAdes is an intensive, semester-long, online coaching course I made to provide Executive Function coaching to students. UGYG includes a robust parent section. Learn more: https://courses.sethperler.com/ugyg/ 👉SEE MY SITE- Get my free Student Success Toolkit & free weekly update: http://www.sethperler.com ✅SUPPORT- To support me, PLEASE click SUBSCRIBE on YouTube, click LIKE on videos, click the BELL, share your COMMENTS and wisdom with other parents and educators. THANKS! ✍🏻BLOG- I blog weekly at: http://www.sethperler.com 😀ABOUT- I’m Seth Perler and I want a world where education gives ALL kids, including outside-the-box learners, the tools to build a good future. Education should empower learners to not only have great lives, but also to contribute in personally meaningful ways. Let’s do this right. My mission is to help students who struggle with school, and it’s all about “Executive Function”. #SethPerler, #ExecutiveFunciton, #2e

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It’s a parents and teachers at Smith setlist up for Lodi, I’m an executive function coach based in Colorado and help struggling student navigate this thing called education in the students that I work with day in and day out are the students who struggle in school. These are the ones who are resistance. I don’t feel like a why do I have to do this? This is stupid. I’ll do it later. I’ll do it tomorrow yada yada yada and they have trouble seeing the value the value the value in education what we are asking them to do and they are resistant and now during this time with a pandemic and with covid-19 in with a dome learning and with all the stuff everything is all over the place. I am hearing so many families talking about how their kid doesn’t want to do anything. The teacher said it was optional. So they’re not going to do any of it. They’re doing the bare minimum. They’re just doing enough to get by there doing enough to get me off their back there doing enough to pass the class. That class isn’t giving grades anymore blah blah blah blah blah. The point is is that the kids are not engaging in what should be what should be valuable educational experiences that are going to help them plant seeds for their life. Why why aren’t they why are police aren’t my students? You know, there is self-motivated students will do these sorts of things but these students why won’t they? Well, here’s why every teacher has different it whatever your opinion is shared in the comments. I want to hear it what I think what I think as an educator as someone who I had to take a lot of issue with education, I think education is the key to a great life education is what we need. But when it’s done right when it’s done, right when kids get a good education, I don’t care if you are in the worst rated School in your state or if you’re in the best rated School in your state a good education doesn’t have to come from the best school in the state. You can get a horrible one there and you can get a great one in the worst, because the metrics we use our wrong the things that we used to measure how effective education is is quad at the core in fast opinion. We are looking at grades were looking at data. We’re looking at measuring things called standards Common Core. We have these measurements by which we judge the effectiveness or the quality of Education. Who cares? If a child is 18 graduates high school and is miserable unhappy depressed anxious doesn’t know how to have a social life doesn’t know how to connect with people doesn’t know how to be generous doesn’t know how to be self motivated doesn’t know how to care about something that they care about doesn’t know how to think doesn’t know how to learn for themselves doesn’t know how to do things to have their own independent great life. Is that a good education? So I believe education is key when it’s a good education. I could go on for a long time, but I’m going to leave you with one thought. The number one metric I look at in terms of what I believe a quality education is the number one most important thing that I think makes a good education and if you were to judge schools, you would judge it based on this one thing. The number one thing I think is important is engagement. How engaged is the middle school or the high school or the kindergartener the second grader the college student? If you have younger kids engagement is way easier, no doubt about it kids need leadership and they need to be lad and younger kids. It’s very easy to leave them. Hey everybody we’re going to do group time. Hey, everybody. We’re going to play in the sandbox time. Hey, everybody. We’re gonna learn about numbers Hey everybody. We’re going to learn multiplication, you know, so there is an engagement it does. He’s the younger they are the easier it is to engage a group of children. The older that they are when they start to develop that social part of their brain and they when they start to become adolescent them on the part of their brain where they start to need some Independence happens. We don’t get on that. We don’t say to them. Hey, you are now 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 and you are such a different place than you were a few years ago. We have prepared you to think for yourself to learn for yourself and then to explore these learning opportunities in to develop your own projects. We have not taught them to do that we have continued to do what’s a top-down education where we’re telling them what to learn when to learn how to learn it how to show their learning we’re telling them, you know, go to this class there for 45 minutes a bell rings you go to another class that they’re 45 minutes a bell rings, you sit a few minutes go to another class and then you do this homework. Can you do all of these activities whether or not they have any seeming relevance to your life? You will do what we tell you because we will judge you on it and we will give you a thing called a grade for that thing blah blah blah and we are smashing engagement. They were losing engagement. Now you might say. I see a lot of self-motivated kids who do just fine with it. You know, what a lot of them do do just fine with it and a lot of them come out of it just fine and have a great quality of life. And that’s what we want. So work for a percentage of the kids, but it doesn’t work for all kids. And is there something we could do for all kids that would be even better for the ones who are successful in the system that we have designed. Anyhow, I am going to ramp like 50 hours if I don’t shut up right now, so here’s the point. Engagement how and I’m not even going to talk about how in this one I’ll give you one way. How how do we get engagement? How do we kick kids who are engaged and their education? How do we do this? How do you the parent or the teacher or the administrator watching this or the psychotherapist questions? How do you get engagement? When do you want to learn something new? There is somebody locally who’s a beekeeper? I got the best honey in the world from him. I’m just made another order. I’m super excited about it. I’m about to ask him if I can check out how he does. I’m engaged. I want to learn about this thing. How why am I engaged ownership and buying? I have a choice. I have a part of it. I am inspired I care about it matters to me. There’s purpose in it for me. How do we create education for kids? That’s purposeful. That is Meaningful That Matters to them to ask them. What do you care about kid? How can we help you? Learn cool stuff around with you care about and still learn the core things that you need to learn. But also learn what you care about. It’s possible. It’s doable we can do it created teachers have been doing it forever. Not the way we tend to do things because we tend to like to measure things. We like to give things a thing like an A or a b or an 88 or 76. We like to measure thing because we put a lot of value as a culture on numbers and data. What about the human beings quality of life? What about their happiness their sense of success their sense of belonging their sense of connection their emotional intelligence their ability to navigate difficult circumstances their ability to have tenacity to be able to fail and get back up to try again to know when to not try wisdom. What about these sorts of things to be able to think to be able to learn on their own? Engagement engagement engagement comes from ownership and buying comes from teachers and parents and everybody creatively designing learning experiences that matter that are engaging that are purposeful that they care about that. They want to do that says to these kids. Hey, I actually trust that you can make your own decisions about what you want to learn. We don’t like to do that. It’s out. We don’t like to trust them. We think all will if I trust them they wouldn’t do anything. That’s because we’ve been screwing up for so long

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