Leadership

Is Care.

These are my boys in the classroom
So I show up.
I have to show up to see them and observed how they learn and what they know.
The school classroom is not always a safe space for these kinda boys
These kinda boys rebel and repel
And I am always amazed by how the same child in classroom struggles to make meaning of text and numbers understand community, self and life. They do it so innately.
How they play so willfully and struggle to learn?
Anyways while the only men struggled for order I just walked around like a teacher in community as classroom and nudge them,
Calling out names in soft whispers
Zion, these babies following you.
So you have to lead today
Zebulon you ain’t hear the national anthem when you stand up di lol boy going stand up.
This is your street so we have to govern it well
The same child who would fight me and rebel in classroom is my ally and leader in the community.
Because leadership is care.