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Falcon Fly By 13 - Dr. Harris Visit 2.19.26

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Join Superintendent Breen as he interviews Guest Speaker Dr. Jim Harris and two students. Dr. Harris works with our schools on behavioral supports and he recently was a guest speaker for our 8th and 9th grade students where he shared "3 Things Every Teenager Should Know."

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we have another edition of the Falcon flyby I'm superintendent bringing and I'm here with Dr Jim Harris and Grant and Ally so today we had a special occasion where we add Dr Harris who's been working with our schools every 1 of our buildings with a lot of Behavioral supports uh he's an expert in the field of therapy and uh just studying people in the brain and how works and functions with teenagers and this morning he talked with our eighth graders and ninth graders about 3 things every teenager needs to know so Dr Harris just tell us a little bit about what useful time this morning yeah well first of all great experience students were fantastic um it's always great to have you know we had 200 some kids are around about 200 uh students in the area and they were just fantastic and attentive we sure to talk today about a lot about decision making a lot about understanding how decisions happen we talked about you know be careful of your monkey brain training which is talking about how the emotional parts of their brain can affect decision making we talked about the idea of like taking care of future you which is about learning about the other parts of our brain and how those parts of our brain helped us make better decisions in the moment for future circumstances which and the importance of learning how to do hard things um and and not that we that we as adults pick those hard things for them but the young people will be able to say like learning how to develop their own behavioral muscle and their own ability to make decisions make plans and move forward uh for may I have Grant and Ally here both ninth graders so Grant what was 1 of the things that really stuck with you as you listen this morning um sometimes you just got to take the second and uh make smart decisions and stay in fall under peer pressure yeah I talked a lot about peer pressure and and it's real and so yeah that really stuck out so very good very good what about you Valley first of all I thought the clarity of the message was very good I really like that was having policies and I think that's really important now is a time when you develop policies about what decisions you're going to make in future situations policy that you make for yourself is the policy regarding of where you are or who's watching kind of having a that conversation around like even what is a policy right like I don't think that's something that uh we have enough conversations with teenagers about it's like what are the policy like what are categories like what are what's the social policy what's the substance I think um I'm glad to hear that because it it it is something that I want especially at this uh you know Lake Mills school or Lake High School because those policies start to really come into play so I'm glad to hear that yeah and also doing great things I think it feels good yeah I'm thinking to pick those hard things to help you doesn't it like instead of picking time this is the hard thing you're going to do but like what do I want to do this all this yeah I'm glad to hear that you guys pulled up awesome awesome well Mr Harris Dr Harris I really appreciate you time with us this morning and and giving students something to think about as they start their day it's a great way to to kind of finish out our week um and uh challenge our students so thank you guys for being with us this morning and uh for giving for your feedback

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