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shitihaveheardatwork · 4 years ago

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Work: Quarantine Edition

I gotta say, I was not exactly ecstatic to tell my boss, who I will remind you quipped “we’ve had diseases like this before” on my first day, that I had had a firsthand CovID exposure and would need to begin quarantining.

He didn’t ask me to come in sick or anything though, so once that hurdle was jumped my concerns were allayed significantly. I was struck though, and could not help laughing out loud, when he texted me my instructions. They led off with “you are not to come to work tomorrow,” which just tickles me. Tell me you can’t hear “you are not to” in a power-trippy middle manager’s voice.

As an aside, he’s texting me in response to a work email. I work-emailed him like a good work-boy and he texted me from his personal phone. He’s just that kind of guy, and it’s a kind of guy I don’t care for.

My phone lives in my pants. Don’t be in my pants boss. Be on my computer, where you belong.

I got my test, I went home, and my new normal for the next few weeks began as I experimented with working remotely.

Since I can’t exactly reshelve anything remotely, my instructions were to develop myself professionally. Attend webinars, read and survey current professional literature, develop programming concepts, etc.

Actually on that note, and I can’t believe I forgot to mention it last time: we are waiting on a new clerk in order to get the branch into full swing. Upon their arrival, I’m supposed to brainstorm with them about a “passive program” display for the library window for black history month.

Needless to say, I’ve already started brainstorming ahead of the new hire’s arrival, and at the moment am leaning towards Audre Lorde or Malcolm X for my window display. My boss suggested the text from “I Have A Dream,” and I knew immediately that we had to do something better. The city of [redacted]’s population is 1/5th black. This branch is being run by two white guys. We have to do something more meaningful and less trite than the white-people version of MLK. More on my window display as it develops.

So I’m at home. I’m developing professionally. I start an orgy of spreadsheets and calendaring. I’ve got cells to space out my work time to the minute. I’ve got another spreadsheet full of webinars and other resources. I’ve got a folder of semi-illicit PDFs including the works of Derrida and Foucault.

Those PDFs hurt my head after about 10 minutes though, so I watch some webinars.

It’s nothing brain-shattering. I learn from a publisher about upcoming YA releases. I watch a toothless lecture on “efficiency” simply because my boss has used that word about 12,000 times since I started working under him and it’ll sound good. I peruse upcoming virtual events I could potentially attend.

My boss’s boss called. I don’t think I’ve mentioned her before. We’ll call her Denise. She interviewed me for the job and she seems cool. She’s calling to follow up an email I sent asking how the reimbursement process works if I go to events that cost money.

It’s a pretty straightforward conversation, but I off-handedly say something along the lines of “I’m still figuring out the chain of command.”

This triggers something, the consequences of which I’ll find out some other time. She says “Oh. Wallace should have explained that to you. That’s part of your orientation.”

Ok so wow, if Wallace was trying to speedrun my training that first day, he definitely wasn’t making a 100% completion run.

She said she’d follow up with him to make sure he gave me all that information. I make a Jim-from-the-office-looking-into-the-camera face to myself. I choose to put this out of my mind because if I think about it, something inside me will explode.

It’s 5PM. My work day over, I save a PDF of my webinar attendance certificate, kick off my work pants, and boot up Fallout New Vegas.

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comicteaparty · 4 years ago

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June 27th-July 3rd, 2020 Creator Babble Archive

The archive for the Creator Babble chat that occurred from June 27th, 2020 to July 3rd, 2020. The chat focused on the following question:

If you could do your webcomic for a living, how would that change things in regards to how you work on it (if at all)?

Deo101 [Millennium]

I'd definitely put out more content, cause I could focus on it fully every day of the week.

Eightfish (Puppeteer)

i would probably start hating it and get burnt out

Deo101 [Millennium]

thats why I would also have to start another comic or do short stories on the side or something, too.

I would probably keep individual comics update schedules the same, I'd just do more comics

LadyLazuli (Phantomarine)

If it became a part-time job, I don't think anything would change. It kind of feels like that already. If I were in a position where it became a full-time job, I do dread how my relationship with the work would change. I don't think I could ever make as much doing comics as I do in my day job (which isn't crazy, but is comfortable) so I don't know if I could ever 100% transition unless it was really, really worth it It's something I've thought about a lot, for sure.

Cronaj ~{Whispers of the Past}~

In a way, my comic is my full-time job? I don't make very much money with it, but I do put over 40 hours a week into it, and I don't have another job. I am in the very fortunate position of having an SO who is able to support me financially while I try to get my footing with my passion. If I was depending on it for a paycheck though, the main thing that would change is my style would probably get simpler, because there is no way I can make enough pages a week otherwise.

Holmeaa - working on WAYFINDERS

It is really the dream to be able to do it! Right now I am unemployed, so I basically treat the comic as my fulltime job, until I find the next short project. I want to be able to work on it full time! In Denmark there are some cool possibilities to get funding from the government and I hope we can get enrolled with some of those programs with our comic.

I would also just love to do small videos, podcasts, animations etc. Small fun projects

Mitzi (Trophallaxis)

If I had to do it full time, I think i'd put a LOT more hours into learning how to paint, watching speedpaints, ect. It'd also make a huge difference in my living situation, as the first thing I'd honestly do with a full time at-home job is move to another city with cheaper rent. Another state, maybe! Oh, and I'd do a lot more promo work. posters and animations are fun, but they're not quite worth it with an audience consisting of two my writing partner's friends, and my older brother.

Shizamura 🌟 O Sarilho

the biggest difference, I suppose, would be that I would make a lot more pages, a lot faster. But I like it that it's been pointed that the relationship with work changes when you have to do things full time, so there may be some unpredictable variables there

eliushi [Keyspace]

For a living for me can mean many different things: able to sustain living expenses vs full-time. There’s overlap but one gives financial security meaning an element of creative freedom. The opposite end will probably entail working on other comic projects with the current one as a passion story on the side (no change but probably might not want to draw so much after drawing for work!) If we’re discussing the ability to do the webcomic full time without financial worries then I do believe my output will increase but also I will be dedicating more time to the craft (studying story structures, art directions etc) as well as marketing/joining professional associations/pitching/connections. There are a lot of career options within the comic world and I’d love to explore everything before deciding what’s best for the current story. Ultimately if I were to do this as a living, I’d treat it like any other job: a routine, a strive for improvement, and wellness to recharge. I follow several artists not only for their art but also their schedule/workflow to see what worked for others. It’s very interesting!

In reality though, I might work on smaller scale projects on the side to build up the experience and platform needed to tell the story of Keyspace. As a full time comic creator, I’ll be seriously thinking to covert the seven novel series into a hug comic project. So TL;DR if full time, I make more pages

varethane

I'm in an odd place with my comic because.... well, I sort of had an opportunity to spend all of my time on it for a few months, when I was in between contracts at work. But I found that I wasnt getting it done all that much faster than I did when also working full time

To be fair, it's kind of hard to compare my speed between the three periods, because when I returned to work after a few months away, it was after work from home had started and now I no longer have a commute, so perhaps my ability to squeeze comic pages into my free time has expanded.... but I feel like my attention span caps out around 8 hours on any single task

So I didnt work that much faster. But... I'm also bad at keeping track. I could be wrong.

Yung Skrimp (Carefree)

8 hours is a long attention span

varethane

It's not all in one go, haha.

eliushi [Keyspace]

I definitely have to take breaks between pages, whether or not I have just a few minutes to a chunk of hours

It’s about finding a balance that works for you!

keii’ii (Heart of Keol)

I don't think I could put more hours daily into my comic than I currently do. I have a chronic issue with my drawing shoulder, so my body won't be able to handle that much work. Probably wouldn't be great for my eyes, either. I also don't know if I want my livelihood to depend on how many people like my story. This story is a pair of custom-tailored skinny jeans for my heart (and I have an unusual body type, making it impossible to wear skinny jeans regardless of size). It's a story I want to read. It's meant to fit ME. I don't want to worry about how to also make it fit a bunch of other people.

That being said, some people do find themselves in a situation where they're making something they want to read, and a bunch of other people just happen to like it, too. I think that would be nice

chalcara [Nyx+Nyssa]

I physically can‘t draw for more than four, five hours a day, found that out the hard wayy

eliushi [Keyspace]

I most recently developed pain likely due to RSI and have made accommodations since then but yeah it was scary to think that I have a limit in drawing time. Gotta find ways to take care of yourself for the long run

cAPSLOCK (Tailslide)

I think if comics were my only job, I'd feel a lot more anxious about what I create, and would struggle to work consistently. Having another pursuit makes me feel like I have more freedom to experiment, learn, and make what I want to make.

Eightfish (Puppeteer)

That's a really good point keii

Would drawing a comic for a living push me to change it to have more mass appeal?

I don't know but it is definitely possible and would be on my mind

Joichi [Hybrid Dolls]

It is the dream, if I could get a decent monthly wage on my comic, yes I will dedicate more time, work out a better schedule. Get an editor and colourist on board to help make a polished series. Altho I'm still doing this method to build good working habits But I agree with Eli's point, have to assign days for breaks for myself to prevent RSI. At present I have a trained mindset to work on schedules, but I may feel the pressure to produce as fast as I could.(edited)

Desnik

Well, for starters, my comic would actually be released somewhere, so it'd be nice if it made something back for me

Miranda

I’d actually release it. And work on it regularly, instead of sporadically like I have been! I’d definitely be more critical of what I was doing, and probably way more anxious every time I posted.

keii’ii (Heart of Keol)

You know, when I was only like 6 years old, I was like "I don't want to be an artist when I grow up. I love art too much, and I don't want to burn out and stop enjoying it. So I'm gonna be a singer instead." I have no idea how 6-year-old me knew about burnout, but I definitely remember saying that in response to an adult asking something like "what do you wanna be when you grow up"/ "wow, you're drawing all the time; do you want to become an artist?"

sssfrs (JOE IS DEAD)

The more I do comics the more I think I want to do art stuff as part of my main career. I would love to make sequential art that's for science purposes

sagaholmgaard

Ah that would be the dream! I'd probably feel more secure in my ability to build up a backlog of pages, and be able to make more extra content for the PDF version! And more content for instagram and twitter as well

kayotics

If I were to be able to do comics full time I think it would completely change my current lifestyle. Not even money wise but I’d need to switch up a lot of things. Like make sure I get a good amount of exercise in. I’d probably add in another page a week, but then use the rest of my week to project manage the comic, and promote my work. I’d spend a lot of other time working on creating an online store, because I can’t see the comic working full time without some supplemental merch keeping me afloat. And I’d also use that time to create and work on another comic series I think.

Yung Skrimp (Carefree)

If I were to do comics full time I’d flex on everyone I know

Feather J. Fern

If I was able to do comics full time, be able to pay off debts, substain rent and food, and extra saved for small spluges, I will shove my comic in my family's face(I got a family who doesn't believe in me at all), dancing around screaming "I MADE IT IN LIFE" And then jump out the window because haha this can't be a reality because I don't think I will ever make it in comics. I will still keep my other job of working at a library and drawing on the side becuase I want working job insurance and also I am the type who wants to save all their money if possible(edited)

eliushi [Keyspace]

I was on board until jumping out the window

Yung Skrimp (Carefree)

I wasn't on board until jumping out the window

Now I am

Moral_Gutpunch

If I could do this for a living, I could do so much. I could afford to put my mother ina home, start my dream farm and start a bunch of conservation as well, I could help my husband fund his own sidegig, and I could afford to foster pets like I always wanted.

shadowhood {SunnyxRain}

Personally, if I was able to do it I would be a lot more invested in it. I would also make a lot less excuses as to why I'm not practicing as much; it took a pandemic to happen for me to dry taking it more seriously!

I think overall I might have been more happy.

On the other hand, there's also the danger of burnout, of constantly doing the same thing over and over again for me. I'm the type that needs constant change, so I think I'm more suited to having another occupation be my main profession while comics/art would be a secondary one, where I don't have as much pressure. Furthermore, it's also my backup plan in case anything happens to my main job.

Moral_Gutpunch

^ This. I'd be focusing so much more on comics. And I'd be expanding into more comics and writing more stories. I'd be happier I'm writing more, but more frustrated at writers block

Tuyetnhi (Only In Your Dreams!)

Man if I could do it full time, might be able to pull more page updates and actually get deep into doing some long term projects I had planned for years. I won't have much of an issue as long i can also do my zine projects on the side. also would be nice to have some job insurance too along with it lmao. the only danger that could take it away if I get incapacitated for no reason lmao

TaliePlume

If I could do comics as my full time job would be awesome! But all that focus would go only to the comic and nothing else which is bad because I would be neglecting a lot of things and not getting other things done.

AntiBunny

I'd finally be able to tell my whole story and start telling another. It drives me crazy that I have more ideas than I can pursue.

snuffysam (Super Galaxy Knights)

In terms of my actual production, I'm not sure doing my comic as a living would change much lol. I already spend upwards of 40 hours a week on it, I seriously doubt there's more I could be doing. So, earning a living off my comic would just be... one less thing to worry about.

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lesliepump · 6 years ago

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How To (Properly) Redact a PDF

Redacting a PDF seems like it would be the easiest thing in the world. Just draw one of those black boxes over the text you need to have disappeared, and voila! Redacted! Except that your recipient can actually just place their cursor over that part of the document, copy, and paste it into a new document.

Related “How to Convert a Word Document to PDF” “Editing PDFs for Lawyers” “Annotate PDF Documents on Your iPad”

This is exactly what happened a few years ago in a patent infringement lawsuit involving Apple and Samsung. The judge’s decision contained redactions, but a simple copy and paste revealed everything beneath. If you want to make sure you’ve actually redacted something before sharing it, there are several methods—all of which are more secure than the black box.

Redacting Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

You probably already have Adobe’s Acrobat Reader, because everyone does, but you can’t perform redactions with it. You gotta have the Pro version to redact. Redacting in Adobe Acrobat Pro is very simple. The main problem with this method is you need Adobe Acrobat Pro. It is not cheap.

You can buy a subscription the desktop software, Mac or Windows starting at $14.99 a month if you agree to a year-long commitment. Acrobat Pro is $24.99 if you want to go month-to-month. It offers a lot of features to edit, review, and create PDFs, so it’s worth the purchase if you’re a frequent user of PDFs.

If redaction is a real rarity (as in a one-time thing), you can download a free 30-day trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Adobe provides an overview of how to redact documents and remove sensitive information. It really only takes a few clicks.

First, open the document you wish to redact, go to the Tools menu, then select Redact.

Doing so will bring up the redaction tools when you hop back to your document. Select Mark for Redaction and Adobe will pop up a handy reminder that redacting is a two-step process.1

From there, just highlight the text you want to redact. Acrobat will outline it for you in bright red.

Click Apply to redact… but first, Acrobat will ask if you are really sure you want the material gone.

Click OK and your text will disappear forever. Acrobat will then ask you if you want to find and remove any other hidden information.

You should always say yes to this. Acrobat is asking if you want to remove the metadata, and you always want to remove the metadata. In this document, there’s nothing particularly secret, but the metadata does let you know I’m on a Mac and that I made this PDF with Microsoft Word originally.

Scrubbing the metadata ensures that any author information, revision information, or anything similar gets completely excised from the document. There is no reason to ever hand over a PDF before you’ve scrubbed the metadata.

Paid Alternatives To Adobe Acrobat Pro

The cost for Acrobat Pro DC can add up over time. Unfortunately, super-cheap or free PDF redacting is hard to come by. Most of the free PDF redactors online require you to upload your document to the website before you can redact, which raises all sorts of ethical and security concerns.

There are a few alternatives, though. If you are on a Windows machine, consider NitroPDF, which will run you $159/user. You can get a free two-week trial to check it out. Foxit makes Foxit Redactor, which is software solely to redact Microsoft Word documents. It’s an Office plug-in, so you access the redaction tools within Office itself, which is handy. It costs you $39.95 and also comes with a free trial so you can see if you like it. However, Redactor only works on Windows and only works within Office, so it is limited to documents you create (or already have in an Office format), not PDFs you’ve received.

Another option for Windows users is PDF-XChange Editor, which will set you back $54.50. It offers a number of features, including a redactions. It does offer a free version with reduced features if you want to give it a try.

For Mac (Windows, and Linux) users, LibreOffice is an office suite that allows you to edit PDFs. It’s free to use, however, it doesn’t have a function that redacts texts. Instead, you’ll have to “Find & Replace” what you want to redact with block symbols, which is a cumbersome process if you have a large document or many things to redact.

Make Sure Your Document is Redacted

For the more thorough or paranoid among you, after you’ve redacted a PDF, use another PDF editor to make sure someone else can’t just open up your document and unredact it. You should also open your document in a text editor and search for what you redacted to make sure it doesn’t show up that way either.

Old-School Redacting

Sometimes low-tech (or no tech at all) is the easiest-and cheapest-approach. Print out your PDF, black marker the heck out of it, scan it, and send it. Just remember you really do need to make a few passes with that black marker to completely obliterate things.

If you don’t feel like printing, marking, and scanning, you can do something similar via computer. Take your PDF and draw a black box in Acrobat Reader or Mac’s Preview or any similar PDF reader. After you do that, take a screenshot of your document. The resulting image is just that—an image—and therefore can’t be manipulated in Word or any other program. The problem with these two methods is that you are left with a document that isn’t searchable or conducive to redlining or commenting.

Bottom line: If you are in the type of practice that requires a good deal of document redacting, it is probably best to invest in a dedicated program that ensures the data you’ve redacted is actually gone. The price will be worth the peace of mind.

Updated March 26, 2019 by Aretha Soderstrom.

Check out our Legal Technology portal page to learn more about PDFs and other software to help your practice.

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maxwellyjordan · 6 years ago

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How To (Properly) Redact a PDF

Related “How to Convert a Word Document to PDF” “Editing PDFs for Lawyers” “Annotate PDF Documents on Your iPad”

Redacting Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

If redaction is a real rarity (as in a one-time thing), you can download a free 30-day trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro.

Adobe provides an overview of how to redact documents and remove sensitive information. It really only takes a few clicks.

First, open the document you wish to redact, go to the Tools menu, then select Redact.

Doing so will bring up the redaction tools when you hop back to your document. Select Mark for Redaction and Adobe will pop up a handy reminder that redacting is a two-step process.1

From there, just highlight the text you want to redact. Acrobat will outline it for you in bright red.

Click Apply to redact… but first, Acrobat will ask if you are really sure you want the material gone.

Click OK and your text will disappear forever. Acrobat will then ask you if you want to find and remove any other hidden information.

Paid Alternatives To Adobe Acrobat Pro

Make Sure Your Document is Redacted

Old-School Redacting

Updated March 26, 2019 by Aretha Soderstrom.

Check out our Legal Technology portal page to learn more about PDFs and other software to help your practice.

Nonsense text for this document courtesy of Office Ipsum. ↩

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subetaspeaks · 8 years ago

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Need Some Art App Help.

Hey, hey! I need help with something! I'd post this in the forums but, well, you know... *coughinsanebanforlifecough* It's ironic because in like ten years of using Subeta I've never needed the forums quite like this, and boom ban forever! XD

Many of you are artists, so I'm hoping you can help me. I recently got me a nice used Samsung tablet to do art with, and I'm looking for a vector app (Android of course) to use for drawing my arts. I'm new to digital art and I thought this would be simple when I started, and maybe it is and maybe one of you will whoosh on here and solve all my problems with a "lolwhut you were having problems?", but so far it's not simple at all, and it's stupid, and I hate everything.

I thought it would be easy to find an art program that also let you have vectors too while you're at it, but it isn't. It seems a lot of these vector apps are for designing architecture and 3-D models and stuff, but I need it for regular ole everyday art-ing. (The reason it's gotta be vectors is for printing, so the art has to be infinitely scalable, and some other reasons that simply upping the DPI won't work because my boyfriend's getting some projects from me and he wants vectors, so.)

I don't need a fancy array of brushes or patterns or effects or a super-lot of tools. I mean I like patterns and effects and tools, but they don't seem to go with vector apps which are seriously cut down, so I've narrowed down my list of necessities to three. Just three simple requirements, though it seems thus far that they're impossible to find together.

Of course: Must be able to email or export to PC in vector format. EPS, AI, SVG, PDF, etc.

Symmetry tool! I love it, I need it. I want it. I need it. I use it for drawing stuff... so that the stuff... on the other side... matches. Well you know! I don't need like a 12-sided symmetry for mandalas and stuff, just a simple vertical line for mirroring. (Simple right? WHERE EVER IS IT THENNNN!!)

A canvas that you can rotate freely by the ole pinch-and-twist, rather than clicking a button and doing that "rotate 90°" garbage that really slows me down. (This is the least important of the three. It's important, but I can do without it if I absolutely must, only if everything else is good. But I'd really like to have it.)

I don't mind paying a modest fee for it, though I'd like a free trial if possible to see if it has what I want before I commit. Here are some I've tried, and problems I've run into:

Infinite Design: I tried this first because I'd tried and liked Infinite Painter, and thought it was terrific only to find out that when I'd save and close a drawing, I'd go back in to find it had moved my lines and I had to do them all over again. What. So, it was useless. Worse than useless, it wasted loads of my time before I discovered it. And so many features too!! DX

Skedio: Same problem. Save-and-exit, come back and lines moved! WHO WANTS THAT, WHO. There's no setting or shaping on, it doesn't move the lines WHILE you're in there, only after you've exited, why. These were the first two I tried so I thought it was a vector problem and I was shit outta luck, and if you use a vector app you're just gonna have your lines moved willy-nilly.

Adobe Illustrator Draw: I had to do a lot of bullshit to even get it to install, like upgrading an un-upgrade-able tablet, in the hopes that it would solve my problems, but alas. While it didn't move my lines, proving that to do vectors you don't HAVE to accept your lines being fucked with, it had its own problems. Also, while right now I've got a 30-day trial (with like maybe 6 left, um) so I can transfer what I've drawn on the tablet to the computer, after that runs out... there is no fucking way I am subscribing to this the rest of my life, fuck you Adobe, seriously. Anyway I don't even like the feel of the drawing, and the lag, and there's no symmetry tool. Beh. Adobe. XP

Handwrite Pro, Squid, ScribMaster: Just... limited. No symmetry in any, no fills in some, weird erasing in others, clumsy and awkward in most. Feh.

There might be more but I've installed and uninstalled so many I've lost track.

I don't have any hope that anyone can help me, because it seems I've tried everything, but then if the problem isn't easily fixable then why the hell isn't everyone on the internet crying out for a vector program that works properly and does stuff? So I must be missing something. But I've been at it for weeks, I've tried dozens, just what... am I missing...

If one of you can finally give me what I've been looking for all this while, I'll send you a present! (On Subeta, of course, I doubt many of you would trust me with your address ha.) Please come, save me from these troubles. I happily invite anyone to step in and say how stupid I've been, and how easily fixable the problem is. Being viciously mocked for missing the obvious would be so sweet right now. I welcome it.

#art #submission

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succeedly · 7 years ago

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis

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Today Basil Marin @basil_marin takes us on a journey to help at risk children with these five steps. From the inspiring books to the essential mindsets, Basil will help us reach at risk kids because he speaks from experience. We are counting the top episodes of 2017. This episode with Basil Marin is the #15 top episode of the year in terms of downloads. It was originally episode 130.

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Transcript for Episode 130

5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

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Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

Basil: Right, so, thank you for having me here today. I think when we look at the five ways to help at risk kids – again, we must think about, “What is the best way to reach these kids?” These children grew up in different ways from you as a teacher, and they just need to know that you care. I love the quote, “Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” So, for me the five topics that I would like to cover today… first starting off with Belief. You know you have to believe in yourself, and also understand that other people are going to believe in you as well, and that will push you towards your destiny.

Vicki: We have a saying in our family, “You gotta believe to receive.” If you look at Hattie’s research, teacher expectations are right up there at the top of the list. Isn’t it hard, sometimes, though, to look at kids and adjust our belief about what we believe they can do? What are some things we should believe about them that can help us adjust that attitude?

Basil: Yes, absolutely. So, one of the first things is you have to understand that student’s interests. So sitting down and having a conversation with them about, you know, “What do you want to be when you grow up? What are some of your challenges? What are some of your areas that you’re really good at?” and just kind of learning the student first. You have to know where they are before you can take them to where they need to be. And so, just that belief, “I was also a struggling learner as well, we can work together.” That’s what really helped me in the classroom as a teacher, kind of bringing myself down from this pedestal, and saying, “Hey, I’m on the same level as you, and I just want to help you get to where you need to be successful.” So just having that belief and powerful, positive conversation.

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Basil: Alright. So the second is Relationships. Relationships are key, and again I think every educator should listen to the TED Talk by Rita Pierson. Relationships help form everything in the school, and then positive school culture and moving things forward.

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

Basil: Alright. So, the third is you must have a vision and set realistic goals. I think for me, you know, at a very young age I was always goal-oriented, and I knew where I wanted to go, and that just help me to propel through my career as an educator. We must then model that for our students and help them understand, “OK we want to get out of high school and then we want to graduate, and then are we going to go to a trade school or are we going to a college? What are your next steps?” But they also, the most important part is they have to be realistic.

Vicki: So, Basil, you know I’ve heard some educators say, “Well, THAT child, it’s not realistic for THAT child to go to college.” Now, is that what you mean by realistic, or what do you mean?”

Basil: When I say realistic, there’s kind of a different layer to it. We know if you’re a great teacher you will know your kids. So, for some kids we do understand that OK, them going to college might not be for them, so then that’s when you have to implore other ideas in terms of trade school, you know for our females they’re going to go to cosmetology school. You still have to give them a craft to be good at. And then some kids are your struggling learners like myself, to talk a little bit about my experience. I struggled in school, but I still had someone that believed in me. My goal was to go to college, I was a little hesitant, but they believed in me, and they helped me to get that extra cushion to get to college. So, you still have to go back to that first initial things I talked about, belief, and you have to believe in the kid and tell them, “You can do it, with the supports that are here, we can get you what you need.” So, it can go both ways, it can go both ways.

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: The fourth one is professional development. I think it is very key to always be in a position of growth, always wanting to better yourself. You can do that by reading books, and I have three good books that I have read: From Good to Great from Jim Collins, Start With Why from Simon Sinek, and Mindset by Dr. Carol Dweck. Those books will help you as an educator to take yourself to the next level. Also going back to school, earning a higher degree, or listening to podcasts like this. This helps you to understand and to formulate your sense of what it takes to be a good educator.

Vicki: Yes, and you know, all professional development is personal. My strategy is innovate like a turtle. Two to three times a week I take 15 minutes and learn something new, and a lot of times it is through podcasting because I’m really, really busy. But we have to decide we’re going to do that. We can’t wait for somebody to schedule our PD for us.

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Basil: The fifth one is find a solid mentor. I think this another one of those key things that really helped me to achieve my success at such a young age. You want to find someone that is where you want to be and just glean and take from them as much as you can. Just be around them, go to conferences with them, sit down and have personal conversation – either informal or formal – and just kind of pick their brain about how did they get to where they were. If they a great mentor, they want to teach you everything they can to help you to get to where you need to be.

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

Vicki: So, all of these things, you know, are about helping at risk kids, but what about the challenges emotionally on a teacher? Because you know, at risk kids – hurting people hurt people – and sometimes it can be emotionally challenging for a teacher to work with kids who are at risk.

Basil: So, again part of that goes back to that personal development, so listening to podcasts like this would give you certain strategies to help these at risk students. Again, I think it all comes back to — you have to start with your “Why” as an educator. Why did you get into education in the first place? And the things i, for our student achievement, student development. So, those students who are in the rougher places and have more turmoil or emotional things they have to go through, that just means you have to develop a stronger relationship with that student and get to know the deep crevices of who they are so that you can bring them up out of those situations to help them to reach the general curriculum and to be successful academically.

Sometimes it just means that you have to hear that student out and practice active listening when they come in the door. They might tell you about what happened at home or what happened over the weekend. You just being a listening ear and building that relationship will help you be successful as a teacher.

Understanding the kids, I believe is the first step. I think the second step is that you have to model for those kids what it means to be a good person. You might be the first positive person they’ve seen and they want to be like and they want to emulate, but you have to show them how to do that. And then I think again, that going back to that belief and saying, “This is where you started from, this is where your mom and dad have come from, but you can pull yourself out of that and change your trajectory, change your future.”

But as we talked about earlier in the podcast, (saying) “That’s up to you, and you have to want to be that agent of change for yourself. But I’m here to help you as your teacher and as an educator in this room.”

Vicki: OK Basil, as we finish up, you say something in your work, “Failure is not a dead end.” Give us a 30-second pep talk as teachers about how failure can’t be a dead end for us or our students.

Basil: Yeah, so I think failure is just an opportunity to look at the situation again and do it again more brilliantly. And so as educators we have to understand that it is our job to reach all of our students in the classroom. So if a student is not getting what you’re teaching, again, you need to think about a different way to reteach that lesson, a different way to get it to the student. I want you all to understand that I am a product of a great teacher understanding that I needed some extra support and help, and they were able to help me to understand that, you know, “We’ll get this a different way. You’re not slow. You’re not dumb. I just need to teach to where you are.” So I want all educators to understand that all students are reachable. It takes time, patience, and relationships. If you’re able to do that, you’ll be able to reach those at risk kids, and one day the at risk kid will come back to you and say, “Mr. So-and-so, or Ms. So-and-so, thank you so much for what you did for me. Now I am, you know, the vice president of this company, I’m in college, I’m doing certain things.” And I had the pleasure to do that with my teacher in ninth grade. I was able to call her up the last week and say, “I’m a new assistant principal.” That was a product of what she did for me way back in ninth grade.

Vicki: I love it that you went back and you thanked her. That is remarkable. I think we as teachers need to go back and thank our previous teachers. I was actually just mentioned in a Georgia Tech magazine talking about my favorite professor, who’s now in his nineties, and you know just having that relationship and going back and saying, “Thank you for what you did!” That’s the kind of currency that we need to pay each other as teachers, because we are transformed when we have amazing teachers. And we transform kids every day!

Basil: (Agrees.) And that’s what we do again. That should be our mission and vision. Again, students are going to come to you and say, “I can’t do this.” As an educator, it is your job to say, “Hey, let’s remove that apostrophe, let’s remove that “t”. Let’s make it “I can.” That’s what you do as an educator. You help the student see it in a different way and have belief in them and let them know that anything’s possible through hard work and determination.

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Basil Marin earned his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration from Eastern Mennonite University and Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) in Special Education from Liberty University. He recently completed the Education Specialist (Ed.S.) degree in Educational Leadership from Old Dominion University before joining the Ph.D. Educational Leadership Cohort 3. He is pleased to announce that he will be transitioning into a high school assistant principal role within Portsmouth Public Schools for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Basil is a humble and down to earth individual who is passionate about creating opportunities for all students to succeed educationally. He has a strong desire to work with at-risk youth. He firmly believes these students are our future and he is willing to provide the necessary support to see all students succeed. These students are regular human beings just like anyone else; however, these students have lower academic skill sets or untamed frustrations that often disrupt their learning process. He feels that God has given him the passion to work with at-risk youth and to show them that through education anything is possible.

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

Basil Marin on episode 206 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast

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5 Ways to Help At Risk Children Succeed

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1 – Believe in them

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Basil Marin @basil_marin about five ways to help at risk children succeed. What an important topic, Basil, and how do we start?

2 – Build relationships

Vicki: What’s our second?

Vicki: I say this all the time on the podcast, so all the listeners are probably tired of hearing it, but “You gotta relate before you can educate” don’t you?

Basil: There it is. That’s the main ingredient.

3 – Have a vision and set realistic goals

Vicki: OK, what’s our third?

4- Grow as an educator through professional development

Vicki: OK, what’s our fourth?

Basil: (agrees)

5 – Find a solid mentor

Vicki: So, what’s the fifth?

Vicki: The old saying goes, “Don’t wait for somebody to take you under their wing. Find somebody amazing and climb up under it yourself,” (laughs)

Basil: There it is. (laughs) There it is.

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