Your Child as a Hero

Are you intrigued?

Sadly, in today’s broken educational world, our children are rarely seen as the “hero.” Instead, they’re labeled—by their SAT scores, their ERB marks, their CRCT data, their Georgia Milestones percentages, and their ACT superscores. Today’s students are categorized by their learning deficiencies, disabilities, and inadequacies. They’re grouped by their modifications, diagnoses, and accommodations. They’re classified by their IEPs and their FWIPs. Classrooms should be different. Teaching should be different. Learning should be different.

Everyone is on a journey. Whether you’re a kindergarten parent for the first time or eking out the final weeks until your senior dons a cap and gown to “Pomp and Circumstance,” we’re all on a journey. The beauty of journeys is that there’s always someone just a further down the road from where we’re starting. And there’s always someone a few steps behind, finding their way. It’s comforting to be in this safe space of “the middle,” a unique (and I’d dare say, designed) opportunity to pour into those behind us, and be poured into by those just ahead of us. We’re all on a journey…somewhere.

And just like every journey has a final destination, every journey must also have a direction. A well-defined direction can be the tipping point between reaching your final destination, your goals, your dreams—or not. Every destination must have a direction. Without a plan in mind, there is a void in a journey. Someone will step into that void, which leads to chaos.

Take the school placement journey as an example. Without well-defined, articulated goals and objectives, how will you know if what your family’s destination is? What’s the goal? What’s your win? What’s your vision?

Whitehead Learning Group creates a story for your family’s vision by:

• Casting a compelling visit for the future. This becomes your family’s story. In these storybuilding sessions, we help you identify:

• Where are we going?

• What does the future look like?

In doing so, we also identify what hangs in the balance if this vision doesn’t happen.

• Why does this matter?

• Why is it important?

Next, we build your child’s team. Each team member play a role in the vision; we help you determine what those parts look like.

• What are the roles? What is everyone’s place in the story?

• Why is each role important?

We’re your guide in your child’s story—not the hero. We’ve cast ourselves as your guide, mentor, counselor, and cheerleader, but never, ever the hero. A guide helps the hero win the day. Teams look to their guides to help their hero win. So we create room to invite our team into your child’s story to be a part of it. By doing so, your child gets to last be the hero. We’re just here to help your child win the day.