Interlude - What Drives Our Expectations‪?‬ Jim Questions Everything

How do we come by setting expectations for students? To what extent are the expectations we set grounded in their circumstances versus our own upbringing? We address these questions and more during a conversation with Kayla Sims, Social Worker and School Counselor at Mountain Education Charter High School in Georgia.

Kayla works with students taking a non-traditional path towards earning a high school diploma, but that doesn't mean the expectations start and stop there. In fact, the host of this podcast is learning that the framework each of uses to set expectations includes a mix of assumptions we make about kids and unconscious biases we bring with us.

Being more aware of how we come by expectations is an important step to aligning them to what kids need most. That doesn't mean setting low expectations, but it does mean setting them with full awareness of what's surrounding kids, and self-awareness about the lens through which we view them.


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