{"id":301,"date":"2022-09-06T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/?p=301"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:24:09","slug":"13-affairs-of-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testv69.demowebsitelinks.com\/LiminalConsultingWP\/13-affairs-of-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"#13 Affairs of the Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the lead up to the 2022-2023 school year, Roderic Cockhern, a retired Air Force serviceman and current junior high counselor for the Arlington Independent School District<\/a> in Arlington, Texas and I sat down for Episode #13 \u201cAffairs of the Heart: Breaking Through the Candy Shell to Find the Kid Inside\u201d on Uncommon Voices, Uncommon Visions<\/strong> podcast (YouTube<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Google Play<\/a>).\u00a0 Mr. Cockhern and I discussed how he became a school counselor, what schooling is like in Texas\u2013specifically speaking to recent controversies over Critical Race Theory\u2013and the changes that Covid-19 has had on students as they learn to readjust to school.\u00a0 Mr. Cockhern emphasized that his primary job is to help 7th and 8th graders understand that who they are now leads to who they want to be in the future, based on their academic and behavioral choices.\u00a0 He is unabashedly \u201cpassionate about helping students direct themselves toward what they want to do with their high school selves,\u201d and knows how important it is to build strong relationships with students in order to help them understand what they need, what they want, and what they think they need and want.\u00a0 One strategy he recommends for those starting school, pick the toughest\/hardest student in your class and spend 5 minutes regularly asking the student about him\/her\/their selves.\u00a0 The conversation may start slowing with one word answers, but by helping the student to understand that you\u2019re trying to get to know the student and that you\u2019re not going to give up trying, you\u2019re able to break down walls and forge connections.\u00a0 For the classroom, doing so changes the overall dynamics, and for that student and their friends, it creates a bridge over the sometimes troubled waters that can be adolescence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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