SHOW NOTES:

3:00 – deciding to be a teacher when in middle school

4:10 – as a teenage dad, deciding to be a good father

6:00 – your support system is your true family

6:40 – fairness, love, respect – Hightower family and blood family

7:50 – homeless, couch surfing, and fourteen schools

8:20 – road to success is very hard

8:35 – choices, decisions, and consequences – life!

9:45 – June 2, 2017 – everything changes

10:45 – delivering newspapers for the AJC, seven days a week, eleven years

11:40 – Be More! – be a teacher

12:45 – managing priorities – keep the main thing the main thing 

13:25 – if you want to gain, you have to take some things away

14:40 – if you bring work home, home can become work

16:30 – doing something for myself, for the first time

17:00 – this is meant for me because it’s happening to me

17:30 – I never thought I would be on anyone’s podcast

17:50 – meet your blessing halfway

19:40 – Mr. Ron Kitchens

20:20 – students, technology, and physical activity

21:45 – favorite sports

23:15 – involving all students in physical education – opportunities to learn and lead

24:45 – stamina – custodian and PE teacher

25:30 – communicating with students- providing guidance and encouragement

26:15 – anything you set your mind to, you can do it

26:25 – if you want good, you can have good

26:45 – minimal surprises, but with kindergarten…

27:45 – seeing growth and development of students

28:30- teaching or learning, which is most important?

29:10 – great teachers listen and learn

29:50 – other teachers – Ms. Stanford, Ms. Sherwood, Ms. Ware, Ms. Peeples, Ms. Dumars, Ms. Wilson

31:20 – if you want something, go after it

32:00 – thanks for listening to my story

Links:

DeKalb County Schools

Hightower Elementary

Briar Vista Elementary

Indian Creek Elementary

GSU PETE (Physical Education Teacher Education) department

Good Morning America – ABC news

Steve on Watch (show, Steve Harvey)

Story by Reese Waters

Professional Association of Georgia Educators

David’s LinkedIn page

Podcast cover art is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.

Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats