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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Dear Hannah: BIG Ideas About Teaching and LEarning (#TheSeeSayShow)

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

Dear Hannah,

I am a brother from another planet.

Strange people think that I am strange.

I think that what I experience is strange.

I teach *students* – not *subjects*.

The "End" Game

I teach with a larger goal in mind.

That goal is to facilitate positive relationships and honest dialogue through small-group fellowship ... dialogue that catalyzes hope, healing, and change.

#TheSeeSayShow is my vehicle to create this fellowship.

#TheSeeSayShow began as a 10-15-minute #StandupStorytelling "monologue" featuring everyday problem solving (like improving home Internet access) and stories about ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

#StandupStorytelling fuses rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change.

These messages are powered by truthtelling that helps students become proficient (skilled) and efficient (productive with their time).

I want students to learn to ...

READ (interpret / understand organized thought)
WRITE (record organized thoughts)
COUNT (read & write with numbers, shapes, patterns)

... then ...

SEE (visualize)
SAY (communicate)
SHOW (demonstrate)

... then ...

LEAD (guide through yesterday, today, and tomorrow)
CREATE (generate new knowledge / ideas, products, and services)
THINK (care, respect, ask, explore, share).

Reach - Then Teach (Becoming A High School Teacher)

To refine #TheSeeSayShow, I needed to engage the same audience for an extended period of time.

I decided to do this by teaching high school.

To become a high school teacher, I completed the Georgia Teacher Academy for Preparation and Pedagogy (GaTAPP) in December 2022.

GTAPP is an alternate teacher certification pathway for individuals who hold a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in fields of study other than education.

I earned “Distinguished” GTAPP Evaluating Pedagogy in the Classroom (EPiC™) ratings in 4 of 7 categories (Reflection on Pedagogical Strengths and Needs; Student Engagement; Respect and Rapport; and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy).

The positive feedback on my ability to self-reflect was affirming - I regard it as my "superpower".

My classroom teaching style has been criticized and praised by many.

In a strange way, both the criticism and praise validate my approach.

I am criticized by "traditionalists" ... who derisively ask "... where is Mr. Brown going?"

I am praised by "change agents" ... who sincerely ask "... how are you approaching these topics with these students?"

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me ... and the renewing of my mind (through autoethnographic self-reflection).

#TheSeeSayShow (AKA Oral and Written Communication (Speech) (GaDOE Course Number 23.04200))

I have created a semester-long course (#TheSeeSayShow (AKA Oral and Written Communication (Speech) (GaDOE Course Number 23.04200))) that facilitates small-group fellowship (via mentoring, mediation, and problem solving).

The course incorporates everything that I have LEarned about #SEEing, #SAYing, #SHOWing, living, knowing, and growing.

The documents below will also let you see Daddy's teaching style "in living color".

Love,

Daddy

Evaluating Pedagogy in the Classroom (EPiC™)
Key Assessment for Teacher Preparation Candidates - Part A

Lesson 1: The Pythagorean Theorem (11-1-2022)

Lesson 2: Special Right Triangles (11-3-2022)

Lesson 3: Trigonometric Ratios (Sides) (11-7-2022)

Lesson 4: Trigonometric Ratios (Angles) (11-10-2022)

About Derrick Brown (Standup Storyteller)

I am Keisha's husband, and Hannah's father.

I am a “standup storyteller.”

I fuse rap, spoken word (poetry), oration (traditional public speaking), singing, and teaching into messages of hope, healing, and change that I write, direct, and produce to help people who help people.

Everything must change - and stay changED.

Tradition begins and ends with change.

Change begins with me and the renewing of my mind ... then continues through efforts to effect small-group discipleship (equipping others to equip others) with audiences that respect and embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving as tools of change.

I am the product of my mentoring relationships, peacemaking (and peacekeeping), and problem-solving ability.

My education began when I finished school.

After school, I enrolled in a lifelong curriculum that includes classes in ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-identity, self-expression, and analysis / synthesis.

My projects execute a ministry that has evolved from wisdom earned through lessons learned.

I want to share this wisdom to build teams of "triple threat" fellows - mentors, mediators, and problem solvers.

We will collaborate in simple, powerful ways that allow us to help people who help people.

I now know that power is work done efficiently (with wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise).

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Dear Hannah: Mission Statement Part 6 - Finance

By Derrick Brown (follow on Twitter @dbrowndbrown)

Dear Hannah,

I am a missionary on a journey to powerful purpose ... with a charge to help others get there, too.

That pathway is paved with ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, litercy, numeracy, language, self-expression, self-identity, and analysis / synthesis.

This journey has given birth to a dream ... that I will use #StandupStorytelling (oration, rap, singing, spoken word, and teaching) to bring messages of hope, healing, and change ... to small-group audiences that embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving.

I have to finance my dream.

Finance is the management of money and other resources.

I do not have a lot of money.

I do have a lot of resources.

Let me show you something ...

Love,

Daddy

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Mission Statement Part 9 - #AnnualReport (2024)

Derrick Brown's Oral History (#YourStory) (2024)

Mission Statement Part 1 - Indoctrination (2021)

Mission Statement Part 2 - Red Beans and Rice (RBR) (2023)

Mission Statement Part 3 - Outliars (Outliers) (2023)

Mission Statement Part 4 - Family Fellowship (2023)

Mission Statement Part 5 - Dunleith's "Black Girl Magic" (2024)

Mission Statement Part 6 - Finance (2024)

Mission Statement Part 7 - #HappyBlackHistoryMonth (2024)

Mission Statement Part 8 - #CircumspectAboutDisrespect (2024)

"Doing Too Much" (2019)

Introduction to Engineering (Creative Problem Solving) (2019)

"Daddy's Home" (2018)

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"Mission Statement (Part 6 - Finance)"
By Derrick Brown
2-11-2024
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[0001][SHOW "Pathway 2 Powerful Purpose (P2PP) (August 5, 2014) v1-001.jpg"]

Good morning, good people.

Let me show you something ...

I am a missionary on a journey to powerful purpose ... with a charge to help others get there, too.

That pathway is paved with ministry, entrepreneurship, stewardship, literacy, numeracy, language, self-expression, self-identity, and analysis / synthesis.

This journey has given birth to a dream ... that I will use #StandupStorytelling (oration, rap, singing, spoken word, and teaching) to bring messages of hope, healing, and change ... to small-group audiences that embrace mentoring, mediation, and problem solving.

I have to finance my dream.

Finance is the management of money and other resources.

I do not have a lot of money.

I do have a lot of resources.

My primary resources are information and tools ...

... tools that I treat like toys ...

... what I mean is I learn how to create, use, and refine these tools in powerful ways ...

... first by playing with them ...

... then by using them to solve problems ...

... then by documenting my work ... the documentation synthesizes and organizes the solution.

Let me show you something ...

[0002][SHOW "KB Grantmaker Grid Index (TOC) 2024-02-11_14-41-51.jpg"]

Customized spreadsheets are powerful information tools.

This workbook distills years of research and analysis into a series of one-page reports that help me "follow the money" so I can "find the money".

Now all money ain't good money ...

... so this journey has led to a lot of "no's" ...

... some of these "no's" wasted my time (via unsuccessful applications that I could not republish), but most save time ...

... via blessed "crooked path" that might help me learn, heal, grow, find a better way, then share WETLL ...

... here are a few ...

... I now know to not spend $10 of my time to raise $5 ...

... I now know that complicated, convoluted application processes predict complicated, convoluted relationships with funders ...

... I now know to submit proposals that allow me to continue projects that I have been able to execute on my own (so that I am not dependent on the grant and grantor ... and so that I do not "bite off more than I can chew" ... underpromise, then overdeliver) ...

... I now know that I only submit applications that allow me to refine stories that I can republish ...

... this way, I win even when I lose because I produce content ... which I can reuse in a number of powerful ways that let me tell my own stories (like this one) ...

... enough of all that, let's describe the tool ...

[0002][EXPLAIN "KB Grantmaker Grid Index (TOC) 2024-02-11_14-41-51.jpg"]

[0004][SHOW "KB Grantmaker Grid - Grants, Grantmakers 2024-02-11_14-45-34.jpg"]

master data sheet that tracks 16,000 grants awarded during a 10-year period (curated during month-long subscription to FDC online used to tell Elisa Levy how funders invested in Georgia Charter Schools)

[0005][SHOW "KB Grantmaker Grid - KIPP MAC 2024-02-11_14-50-24.jpg"]

explain pivot table reports (the real KKA)

[0006][SHOW "KB Grantmaker Grid - Grantmakers (Contact Info) 2024-02-11_14-53-06.jpg"]

contact | guidelines | submission manager sheet (which managed HPA's 2013 "reclamation" and VNC's "church building" experiment)

[0007][SHOW "KB Grantmaker Grid - KB (2004, 2013) 2024-02-11_14-55-53.jpg"]

KB's original contact | guidelines | submission manager sheet built by visiting FDC's "brick-and-mortar" library in 1996.

[... then present WETLL (being able to use Google for "performance artist" grants to individuals after reading one of the pivot table reports on filmmaker funding, then discovering profellow.com)]

[0008][SHOW "FDC 2.0's P2PP 002.png"]

[0009][SHOW "FDC 2.0's P2PP 004.png"]

... then present WETLL ("teacher grants") ...

[0010][SHOW "Where Am I Looking (Keywords, Profellow, Teacher Grants) (from Opportunity Knocks 5-24-2021).jpg"]

[0011][SHOW "Fund for Teachers (from Opportunity Knocks 5-24-2021).jpg"]

[0012][SHOW "Toshiba America Foundation (from Opportunity Knocks 5-24-2021).jpg"]

Conclusion
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This dream is all I have.

But it's all I need.

My approach to financing it reminds me that my real wealth is knowledge.

You invest knowledge wealth by sowing it into others ... then growing new knowledge and partnerships.

This is how you make dreams manifest.

Selah.