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Remarkable! (A Podcast)Character is destiny | Synthia Goode| Ep. 3I first met Synthia in 2006. At that time, she was the girlfriend of my second oldest son Justin, and she had just finished her work as a flight attendant. Synthia was returning to work as a dental assistant.When we first met I was struck at how intense Synthia was. She was a very focused young lady and was working very hard to move forward in her career. It was also clear that she was very much in love with my son Justin. they would marry several years later.Twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek...2024-04-1910 min
Remarkable! (A Podcast)Who becomes a public school teacher? | Synthia Goode | Ep. 1This is Synthia, a married mother of three, who works part-time and who decided in her late 30s to return to get her undergraduate degree and become a public school teacher.But who does that?The NY Times ran a piece that highlighted the crisis of teachers quitting their jobs because they were pushed to their limits by children’s pandemic-related behavioral and emotional setbacks and staffing shortages that forced them to take on roles beyond their normal remit.In a paper published in November 2023 by the Annenburg Institute for School Reform at Br...2024-04-1556 min