Awesome video to watch!

During the keynote presentation at an inservice we had, we explored what it meant to give our students opportunities to take risks, and why that is beneficial for them.  We also discussed how we observed that happening in our daily interactions with the students that we work with.

These conversations were set up after watching a video of a boy named Ben Underwood who had lost his eyes due to cancer at a young age, and how his mother fostered opportunities for him to take risks from a very young age. Through the positive support from his parents, he supported his other abilities, and taught himself how to process the world around him through echolocation. Following the video we discussed how differently Ben's life could have been if his mom hadn't taken the positive approach with his differing abilities. 

The concepts that we discussed surrouding this video are some that are so relative to what we do on a daily basis, and give us a positive example of methods to foster that same positive growth in our students.

The video is fascinating, and definitely worth the time, but if you don't have the time, at least watch a few minutes of it!