Sometimes we need to be ALL about adults

Our district has an annual event known as convocation. I have to admit, I was less than excited about making our annual trek over to Plano as I had a crazy week and really needed to spend some time in my office.  I arrived in the basement.

It started with a word from our Superintendent, Dr. McDaniel, that segued into a video montage about the personal struggles of some of our fellow MISD family members, The video was very moving and I could tell this was shaping up to be a great afternoon. You can watch our Superintendent's opening remarks and the video below.

Next came the McKinney North Dancers and a song from Faubion Middle School student and local YouTube sensation Blake McGraw (you gotta love social media).

While all of this was going on, singing, dancing, crying, there was a strange man in baggy clothes with a backpack walking around. To be honest I thought he was the rapper Coolio and then I thought maybe Coolio was making a special guest appearance (I mean, his song Gangster's Paradise was on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack so it was sort of school related). This is where it started to get interesting; the Coolio look alike was actually Dr. Adolph Brown and little did we know were in for a real treat.

Dr. Brown's message was this. We must educate ALL kids, we must be enthusiastic educators, and we must be the balcony sunshine for all of our students everyday. We must tell our Public Education story, if not someone else will tell it for us. The change starts with us! I'm glad that this particular afternoon this speaker was brought in to talk to us, to the adults. I left inspired, and I left in the balcony and I'm glad I will be able to shine on every teacher and student I work with this year and that is #realtalk.