Journal of a Black Teacher

COMPETENCY ACTIVITY Form GED 8150: Initial Leadership Assessment Name : Don Allen Term : Spring 2022 Identify the area of your ICA where you identified a need to gain more exposure and growth through experiences, skill or knowledge development, or by opportunities for observation.  (Include both the competency area and the indicator/sub-competency or competencies. Policy and Law 1. Understand and implement policy to meet local, state, and federal requirements and constitutional provisions,standards, and regulatory applications to promote student success; 2 . Recognize and apply standards of care involving civil and criminal liability for negligence, harassment, and intentional torts; 3. Demonstrate an understanding of state, federal, and case law, and rules and regulations governing general education, special education, and community education. Fiscal Management 1. Demonstrate knowledge of factors that affect school finance, including sources of revenue; expenditure classificatio

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Mined by Don Allen, M.A. Ed./MAT   Introduction      When you have been intellectually abused you recognize it by the types of human biological functions that happen; sweaty hands, upset stomach, headaches, and anxiety levels too high it will trigger your reptilian brain into flight or fight mode. The assignment, this paper was to identify a problem at work and insert it into intercultural communication using the early chapters of our class text Communicating Across Cultures at Work (2017), and the later chapters to propose solutions; this is what I interpret to be the assignment. In reflection, to see a problem for what it is and the realness of the effects on team members, systems, and outcomes in efficacy leads me to ask “What can you do when teams inside Educational constructs don’t know what they don’t know?”        The first time I became aware of intercultural communication, which refers to the communication between people from two different cultures was when I was much younger

We must study humans as we would study other animals to discover what their “nature” is. Look among the species; see who are the thriving and successful and in what activities do they engage? For Aristotle, this is how to determine what is and is not appropriate for human and human societies .    ~ Aristotle - Rejection of Plato’s Rationalism Statement from Don Allen, M.A. Ed./MAT: Teacher and Servant Leader Please, everyone - cast a spell, wave your magic wands, pray, rub the chicken feet (I have mine, it’s a Jamaican thing), and hope teachers don’t strike. The results from a strike in this critical moment will disrupt all levels of society. The Twin Cities are not prepared to have thousands of K-12 scholars unstructured; yes, the achievement gap is alive and growing, but educators need this time between now and June to kill it. Parents must work; childcare is critical. We are just easing back in because of COVID-19, bad Wi-Fi hotspots, we have kids who are seniors that can’t get in