Tylan Bailey will inspire you! Tylan was a school custodian for 23 years, held another job for eleven years during that same time period, experienced homelessness more than once, and then enrolled at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Through dedication, commitment, and the support of his home family and work family, Tylan is now a teacher of physical education at Briar Vista Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia. A thoughtful, consistent approach to challenges, opportunities, and goals characterize Tylan’s outlook on human potential, and serve as a springboard for everything he accomplishes, including what his students learn. If you need a reminder about turning a vision into a reality, or if you want to celebrate the great teachers that tirelessly prepare the next generation of leaders, you will want to hear Tylan share some of his story.
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:
GSU PETE (Physical Education Teacher Education) department
Good Morning America – ABC news
Steve on Watch (show, Steve Harvey)
Professional Association of Georgia Educators
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