teacher shortage. so we know the struggles but what about the solution? well we brought together a group of 7 educators from across the country to help us navigate these challenges. and bridge gap between parents and teachers here s part one of that conversation. watch. thank you y all for being with me great to have your beautiful faces teachers you re the backbone of our kids that spent majority of time with you guys thank you for taking time to talk with us there s so much to talk about with education today but i want to really go back to decision that you guys made and why, why did you decide to be an educator? i ll start with you, elizabeth. i knew when i was in college that i wanted to help people. i wanted to make a difference in the world and that was reason for going into teaching. bridget? i had influential teachers with my friends and we would go home from school and we would play school so kind of been in me since i was young. lawrence: when did you deci
teacher shortage. so we know the struggles but what about the solution? well we brought together a group of 7 educators from across the country to help us navigate these challenges. and bridge gap between parents and teachers here s part one of that conversation. watch. thank you y all for being with me great to have your beautiful faces teachers you re the backbone of our kids that spent majority of time with you guys thank you for taking time to talk with us there s so much to talk about with education today but i want to really go back to decision that you guys made and why, why did you decide to be an educator? i ll start with you, elizabeth. i knew when i was in college that i wanted to help people. i wanted to make a difference in the world and that was reason for going into teaching. bridget? i had influential teachers with my friends and we would go home from school and we would play school so kind of been in me since i was young. lawrence: when did you deci
Asked me i never really asked myself exactly. What lead me to want to write a book because they are a pain in the neck to do. You need a level of passion about it. Usually what it is if i look back on it it is finding a person. An interesting person in an interesting situation and explore some interesting ideas. What almost always happens is i have a lot of little projects, magazine pieces, things i am investigating, it consumes me and i get to the point, this is such a good story i have an obligation to tell it. That is the point of the book, i have to do this, it should be done because it should be told. In terms of you asked me to go to a class of journalism schools, to write a good story i wouldnt know how to begin. Host you were working for Salomon Brothers. Guest my career path, there should be something on the bottom of the tv screens at says try this in your own home. I dont think you can grasp the model on a literary career. I was an art history major in college. I wanted to i
It has the same edge to it, and all of those qualities, just a different cast. I think its not gonna be quite the same. What people have to remember, you know, when chevy left, we thought the shows gonna go downhill, and that was all over then belushi emerged, and after john you emerged. Yeah, and after john and i left, we figured you know, people figured, oh, its all over. Billy murray came out. After billy, eddie murphy came out. After eddie left, we had chris guest, joe piscopo, martin short who are they . [ laughter ] second city guys . Yeah, so you know, the its the new staff, and we have to support them. Yeah. Its americas serious guy here. Its amazing. Premiere sketch institution. Its the premiere institution for doing that type of scenes and the repertory has to grow. Lets talk about the film. What was the question i asked . I forgot. I dont remember. Freddyfreddy is going like this, which i assume means funny we have a as the guests normally want to do on this show, usually br
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