When I was in the sixth grade, I got into a fight at school.

It wasn't the first time I'd been in a fight,

but it was the first time one happened at school.

It was with a boy who was about a foot tall

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The world today has many problems.

And they're all very complicated and interconnected and difficult.

But there is something we can do.

I believe

that girls' education is the closest thing we have to

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Menstruation.

A simple word describing a natural biological process,

weighed down by centuries of stigma,

has been transformed into something most of us can only speak about

in whispers.

But why?

As I

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Transcriber:

The last day of school was barely school.

I fielded complicated questions

from students who braved public transit to attend,

I wiped down every desk between classes

and reminded myself t

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My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents.

And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

I heard a great story recently -- I love telling it --

of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson.

She wa

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I was 6 years old when I first enrolled in a U.S. school in the Rio Grande Valley.

The classroom setup at my new school

was different than the one I attended in Mexico.

The truth is, everything I onc

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I'm not a clinical pyschologist.

I'm not a grief counselor.

I'm not an expert in youth mental health.

Yet everyday I find myself in a position

of needing to offer insight and guidance

to staff members

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Hi.

For the past seven years, I have had the luxury of being the principal

of Washington State's largest dropout re-engagement program for 16-21 year olds.

Call me crazy, but I want to enroll all the

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i want to share with you a story about

one of the best teaching jobs i've ever

had

while working at deer lake middle school

now dale lake just wasn't any school

it was an incredible one i'm not saying

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"You can't teach them until you reach them."

These were the words of a dear mentor of mine early on in my career,

and I can honestly tell you I didn't understand

the full magnitude of those words unti

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