Hi, friends. I see I'm live. Awesome. Oh, I forgot to tidy up my office again. I'm sorry. Usually I prep everything before I teach a class or something, but of course I forgot to do that. My apologies. It's kind of a mess. How was everybody doing? I did do a post saying I would be hopping online at 6.45 p.m. Eastern time. We have about five minutes. I just thought I'd hop on a little bit early, get things situated. It's just basically question and answer time. I like to come online for you guys. You guys have all been very receptive when I do this. I never know when I can do it. The only reason why I'm doing it tonight is because the patient canceled. I thought of you guys right away. I thought I'm going to go on live YouTube and help my amazing YouTube viewers and help to answer some questions. Hi. So nice to see you. If you guys have any questions, feel free to comment. This is being recorded. Shoot. Now I can't remember. I don't think the comments and questions save for the recording. So I'll likely read them out loud. So for anybody who's watching this afterwards, you will still be able to kind of know what questions I was answering. So basically any dental business questions, I'm doing a lot right now. Feel free to ask. I was answering some YouTube comments earlier. Sorry if it does take me a little while, you guys. I get some amazing YouTube comments. I get a lot of them. So I do try to go through them late at night, literally while I'm sitting in bed after my day. Sorry, I'm just going to have some water. As you can see, I was being careful because I didn't want to spill it all over myself. Yes, great. Oh, I'm hate from London. Wild seed. London, Ontario or London, England. I'm in London, Ontario, but everybody when I say I'm from London, people assume it's London, England either or is amazing. Great question. So even for studying, do you still need some balance in the day? So are you referring to if you're studying for a test, if you're studying for the board exam? How do you balance your day? Is that your question? London, England. I have a lot of YouTube watchers from London, England I've noticed. I think that's fantastic. I love that my YouTube channel is somehow reaching everyone. That is great. That is fantastic. Oh, you know what? I'm going to say hello in the chat box just so in case it doesn't pop up for you guys right away. Now it will. I'm just checking my laptop. It's going through some updates. Yes. Okay, so great question. Glade, great question. So yes, you do need to study. So what I tell my students is I want you guys to be studying every day, whether it be for classes, board exam doesn't matter. I want you guys to get into the habit of studying every day, but only for two to six hours a day. So I know that's a wide range. It just it truly depends, right?  If you're not working full time, if you're not doing anything else and I want you to be studying six hours, it's a little bit different when you're in school because you might not have anything to study for that day, or you might have 20 will not 20, but you might have five different tests to study for the week afterwards. So it really helps to plan your time, but you still need balance. So what I tell my students is let's say study two hours in the morning, in the afternoon, go for a walk, go out for lunch, meet a friend. When you come back, study for another two hours. Have a nap. If you have to play a video game, watch some TV, do what you want to. And then in the evening, study another two hours. When I was a student, I studied more at nighttime because that's just when I felt I retained the most information. Everybody's different. And it helped me sleep. It did. It helped me sleep. I would be reading my textbook. An hour later, I'd be falling asleep. So Glade, I hope that that helps. If I didn't answer something, please just let me know. Sorry, I'm getting a lot of messages with my Apple Watch. Okay. Crystal, hello. So Crystal is saying she's in her second trimester. Oh my God. I don't know where that came from. Oh my God. No, I'm not pregnant. Oh God. In your second semester, becoming a dental hygienist, good for you. Oh my God. School is stressful, right? I know. You went over the Cardio Drugs chapter in pharmacology. Wow, it is a lot. What are your suggestions on remembering the Cardio Drugs? That's a really good question. Even I don't remember the Cardio Drugs. And I've been doing this for 15 years. It's basically memorizing. I know that probably doesn't help you, but try to look at common, what's the word? A lot of drugs might end a certain way. They might sound the same. So if that helps you memorize things, then that will help, but it truly is based on memorization. I'm sorry. If you look in my YouTube channel, type in Pharmacology Drugs. You will find free YouTube videos that I have for you and where I kind of go through exercises to help you remember. So you can try that. And then let me know if there's any questions. Oh, thank you guys for clicking like. That's fun. I keep forgetting that you guys can do that. So please click like. And if you haven't yet, make sure to subscribe because I do upload new videos at least weekly, even more than that. And I have a podcast now. I don't know if you guys knew this. So if you really like listening to me talk, I don't know if you do or not. I personally don't like the sound of my own voice. I don't think anybody does. But if you like listening to me talk, definitely check out my podcast. There's a lot of videos on there. Cricket 35. How is the board exam score curved up? It depends on where you're taking the board exam. There's always a curve, but it does depend on where you live. Here in Ontario, they give you there's four different exams circulating and three or four. Sorry, I don't know for sure because they might have changed that, but three or four exams always circulating and they do have fake false questions in the exam. So when you're taking the exam and if you think you did really, really well, well, some of those questions might be false, so might not count.  Five questions. I had no idea. Well, they might be part of the false questions so they don't help. So basically, they look at everybody who's taking the exam and they curve it that way. From what I'm told, but nobody really knows for sure unless you're the exam writer. So I'm sorry. I can't help you too much with that either. But don't even think about that. What I tell my students is aimed to get a hundred percent. Literally, that's what I tell my students. If you aim to get 50%, well, guess what? You're probably going to get 20% and you're not going to pass. Aim to know everything for the exam. If you're part of my board exam prep academy course, I teach you guys critical thinking. I teach you guys at every live class that we have how to go through mock exam questions, answers, and I teach you guys the best answer, how to pick the best answer for every single session that we do. That's the best practice you can have. You can get aimed to get 100% on that exam so you will pass for sure. Okay, perfect. So wild seed is saying you study every day at least eight hours, but you're trying to cut down because I'm getting tired and can't remember. That's a great point. So I tell my students, don't study eight hours. Heck, I would be tired to you guys. Study two to six hours at the most. You will start to learn what times work best for you. When I was a student, if I studied in the morning, I would learn nothing because I was tired. I didn't want to study. I wasn't in the mood. You do have to be in the mood to study. Nobody's ever in the mood to study, but you would agree, right? That sometimes you're just more in the mood to study. And after you study, sometimes you kind of feel like, Oh, I learned a lot today. Whereas other times you might be thinking, Oh my God, I learned nothing. That was a waste of time. So I hope that that helps. Cricket 35, great point. So what helps during the exam to ensure you're not tired? Do you mean when you're taking the exam or when you're studying like on your own for the exam? And you know, you guys, it's hard being students. I found I was chronically tired. I was chronically fatigued. Okay, so make sure to get, I know this sounds corny, but make sure to get enough sleep. Don't be studying until 2am. Make sure to get enough sleep. And if you need a break, like not just during the exam, but I mean, when you're studying on your own, if you need a break, take a day off. We all can suffer from burnout. In fact, I just talked about burnout on my recent podcast, where I experienced it to you guys. Take a break if you need to.  Maybe you need to take the whole day off to go shopping, spend too much money. But if that makes you feel better, it's worth every penny. So really for you, try to get enough sleep during the exam. Read through every single question carefully. And you know, take your time. Does coffee before the exam help? That's a good question as well. I can't really answer that because coffee affects everybody differently. I know for me, if I have a coffee before something important, I'm gonna have to use the washroom probably 20 times. So I would actually avoid coffee. But for me, coffee does help me. So I will wake up extra early to be able to have that coffee feel good. And then two hours later, I can leave the house because I have to use the washroom so much when I have a coffee. But I find after two hours, my bladder returns back to normal. I know it's weird. It's true. But how to really help yourself with fatigue truly is individual. It's hard for me to answer that. But think about just getting enough sleep. Maybe coffee will help you. In some cases, talk to your doctor. Maybe taking half of an anti anxiety pill might help you. I know lots of students who are doing that. And that's really helping them. I'm not here to recommend pills. Absolutely not. But I have talked to students where that has helped them. But obviously try other means first so you don't have to be prescribed something. How long does it take for the NBDHE scores to be posted? They've been really quick before. In the past, it's taken three weeks. Other times, it's taken six weeks, sometimes eight weeks. When I took the exam, it took a full eight weeks. Lately, it seems to be taking three or four weeks. So they do post them very, very quickly. Great questions, Cricket. Thank you. And thank you guys, by the way, for coming on live. This is great. Feel free to ask questions. I'm just checking my email quickly just to see if anybody sent questions there. I know this YouTube live was totally spur of the moment. Again, I apologize. The only reason why I'm on is because the patient canceled. So you know, I thought of you guys right away because you guys rock. Thank you guys so much for commenting, answering all of that. You guys are just always fantastic. Speaking of fantastic, are there certain videos that you guys want me to upload on YouTube? I record my videos throughout the week, just basically on topics where I get like questions emailed to me from like popular student questions. Please let me know and I can definitely talk about something. Oh my goodness, Cricket. You struggle remembering head and neck origin and insertion. Any advice? This is probably bad advice, but I struggled the same as you. I couldn't remember head and neck anatomy, you know, the muscles for the life of me. So I just didn't study it. I know not the best advice from a tutor. But sometimes you just can't retain that information. Oh, well, even now 15 years in practice, I have to look up the muscles because I just can't remember. But I guess better advice for you would be honestly, it's memorizing and it's just studying it over and over again, practicing. That's the best way to do it. It's hard. Dental hygiene topics, dental assisting topics are very difficult. They're hard. Just remember studying won't be forever. Okay. You will be done school soon enough. You will be. I promise. I promise. Oh boy, you guys, I think we're gonna get a rainstorm. It looks pretty bad out there. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna send so many messages. By the way, if any students or anybody have been emailing me messaging me sorry if it takes me a little bit to respond, I get a lot of messages that I try to respond to you in a timely fashion, I promise. Be a cricket. Thank you so much for commenting. This is great. Oh, cool. So it looks like 15 people are on right now chatting away. I guess I should have really thought of something to talk about. I'm sorry. I just thought question and answer is fun. Let's do this. After graduation, is it good to start working full time or temp? Again, that's up to you. I started working full time because I had a job lined up. I did temp throughout the years as well. But it's because I wanted a more flexible schedule because with temping, you're basically told when to work. So they they might call you and say, can you work Tuesday and Thursday this week? Okay, great. No problem. But you don't have set hours, which can be good or bad depending on what you want. My last year working in the dental office, I tempt mainly just because I didn't want full time hours or regular part time hours because I was teaching mostly. So that is up to you. How long did you have to wait till receiving your license after the boards and graduating? Oh, Jay Hicks, that's a good question. It's been such a long time. So don't quote me on this. But I think it just takes a couple weeks. It's really not fast. You have to fill out paperwork that your school sends you, fill it out, mail it off with a tracked package right away, and you will get your license quicker. Ortho RDH hello. What are your go to instruments for scaling? We learn all of these instruments and it takes too long to pick them. That's a great question. I am still constantly asking other dental hygienists what instruments they like to use, because I kind of feel like I've been using the same ones forever that I might be missing something. So it's always good to ask a variety of people. But I really like the 204 s 204 s. That's a posterior sickle scaler. I like the anterior scaler the one two I think it is shoot I should have my instruments with me to show you guys. But there's another sickle scaler that has like a spoon on the one end of it. I love that one. I don't know the number though. Whoa, I'm sorry. That's stuck in my throat. Oh boy. And that like really helps to get calculus off of the linguals of the lower and the upper interiors and the singulums. So I really like that one. The posterior curets I truly don't have a favorite. I just kind of I don't even know which ones I have. I want to say the 1112 1314 I think I have those ones. I really like the 204 s I even use that for my interiors sometimes. You have to be careful. But I just I love it. Crystal, thank you. The nevy scoop that does sound so familiar. I bet that's it. Marcy Owen. Hello. It's so nice to see you. How do you feel about states whose dental boards do not require any minimum standard of education and training whatsoever to become a dental assistant? Oh, is it? It really depends on where even in Canada, you didn't need a license for the longest time to be a dental assistant. Like that's a new thing. I truly think you need a license for it because you're working inside a patient's mouth. I can't I would not want a dental assistant working on me who didn't graduate from an accredited school because as you guys know, it's hard work.  Well, I shouldn't say simple, but it's different than an office job. Like we are professionals. We are inside somebody's mouth. We are putting things in people's mouths. So I really feel like people should have minimum standards of education and training. Absolutely. It's kind of like teeth whitening where I think I even talked about this in my last live. There's a lot of places where you don't need to be certified to offer teeth whitening. Oh my goodness, you can burn the gum so easily, which is why I'm so passionate when I teach my teeth whitening course. It's not a hey, learn how to teeth whitening in two hours. It's a I teach you an 80 hour course. How to teeth whitening do it properly. You learn stains. You have a business component to it. How to make money. How to keep clients. All of that. So it's kind of the same thing. I feel like anytime you're doing something inside a patient's mouth, you really need to be certified. So Marcy, that's a great point. Um XX. Hello. Should I work as a dental assistant for a bit or go straight to dental hygiene school? That's up to you. Um I wanted to be a dental assistant first. I always knew I wanted to be a dental hygienist with my own business, but I took dental assisting school first. Um well, I couldn't get into dental hygiene school because my marks weren't good enough, but I've always wanted to to do dental assisting first because I wanted to really know all aspects of dental. I am very happy that I took dental assisting first because you learn the basics in dental assisting and that really helped me through my dental hygiene program. It truly did. So, if you can, I would take dental assisting first. I would. Plus, if for some reason you don't like dental hygiene or something happens, you have dental assisting the full back on and you can work as a dental assistant if you want while you're in dental hygiene school. So, I really, really recommend dental assisting first, but it's not mandatory. Um how long is a certified dental hygiene program supposed to be officially? They're so different. Mine was about 18 months. Now, they're typically 18 months to two years. Some are even three years. Whereas a dental assisting course is typically one to two years depending on where you're taking it. Mine was 11 months at the time, like way back when. Um Jay Hicks, how was the separate ethics legal exam when you took it? Oh my god, it was brutal.  You can't study for it, you guys. Like you truly can't. It's really difficult.  It's pointless. Have your book open and that's the best advice I can give you. If you want to study for it, go ahead, but it's all memorizing. I remember taking it. Um I passed the first time because I think you have multiple times to pass it. I passed the first time. I don't know how. I didn't know what I was doing, but I want to get it over with, right? Probably not the best advice, but good luck. It's hard. Um best way to remember the teeth eruption and exfoliation timeline. I actually just did a video about this where I still can't remember the teeth eruption and exfoliation.  Print off that chart where it shows you the primary teeth and the permanent teeth. Print it off and have that. I still haven't memorized it, but if you practice, practice, practice, I'm sure you can, but always have that like paper for you. Like I have that to show parents of my patients. Um because it's hard for me to remember them too. Um cricket 35. Can a hygienist own a dental practice? They can own a dental hygiene practice in most areas, not all areas. Um but they can in Ontario. They can. I actually teach and mentor a dental hygienist, open up their own practice, but you need to go through your association and ask if you can, if you're not sure, because all areas are different and I couldn't possibly know worldwide which areas allow it or not. So please um double check that, but you might be able to or you might not be able to unfortunately, but it's the best thing ever. Um Amber, hello. Um what are some things um a new dental hygienist can do to avoid injury? Do you mean like back pain, like wrist pain, things like that? Knock on wood you guys. Knock on wood. I've been great. I'm, I haven't had any injuries. I feel good. I'm a mobile dental hygienist. I've been practicing for 15 years. I've been in dental offices. Posture is the biggest thing. I highly recommend investing in loops. Does everybody know what um loops are? Those safety glasses with like magnifiers on them. Highly invest in those that improves your posture and get a light with your loops. This is where dental hygienists get injured. Is if they're constantly leaning over, doing this, they're not sitting properly or they're working too much. Do not work 12 hours every day. Your body needs a break even in my own practice now. I'm a mobile dental hygienist. I do not work every day because I recognize my body needs a break. So let's say I'm seeing a family of five on Monday. I'm not going to work Tuesday on Wednesday. I'm going to have easier patients like I'm going to book children, things like that. I'm not going to book a family of five on Monday, a family of five on Tuesday, a family of six on Wednesday. That is how you can avoid injury. Um so Amber, I hope that helps. Um Jay Hicks, here it's open book. I'm assuming it's open book for everybody. I don't know. I'm sorry. So I guess I shouldn't specify but please double check. Um but I just opened my book and did it that way but open book exams aren't easy. Like they're not easy. Um they're meant to quickly look up something if you can. They're not meant to to go through every question, open book and find it. There's no way you'd have time for that but yeah I hope that helps. Um can a dental assistant have their own business for teeth whitening in Canada as a level two? Now XX please double check. Check with your association because there's different areas of course in Canada. Some can and some cannot. Even if you cannot um there's different aspects of teeth whitening you can do in your own business. So you might not be allowed to apply the teeth whitening solution directly to the teeth but what you might be allowed to do is apply the whitening solution onto a tray. Hand the tray to your patient and have them put it in their mouth. You are there to monitor things. You are there to give them that solution where they wouldn't have been able to get otherwise. That kind of thing. So check with your association and then let me know if you have any questions. So I know there's so new rules. What is the average salary of dental hygienists now in Ontario? Is there so much saturation? Oh my goodness they're looking for dental hygienists. Dental hygienists are quitting like wildfire. I don't know why. Um maybe the pandemic maybe they don't want to work anymore but here we need hygienists. The average salary it's really hard to quote me because in Ontario it's so different. When I was in Kitchener I was making upwards to $40 per hour whereas in London just a few hours away it was probably $31 an hour if I was lucky. So it really depends somewhere it's even $55 per hour. So it really depends on where you live. Um Lauren Anderson hello. Um you're not sure if you should take a dental assisting board exam in June or September. You graduated May and I am not sure when to take it. This is a very common question. I can't answer that for you. Um I tell people when you're ready take it. It's not easier in June. It's not easier in September. It just truly depends on when you feel ready. I always suggest taking it sooner rather than later because you don't want to stress yourself out more than you have to. You can take it around Christmas time if you want to but do you really want to have to study all that time probably not. So let's say you graduate in May. Do you feel confident taking it in June? If not wait until September. When I was um when I graduated as a dental assistant I literally took my exam like two weeks later. I was so happy I did it. I didn't want to wait. When I was a dental hygienist I was able to take the exam even before I graduated because I had met certain clinical requirements. I took it right away because I didn't want to stress myself out by having to wait, study more. Um so it's really it really depends on how you feel. So Laura and I hope that helps. Um and Danish Mom Ed, sorry if I pronounced your name wrong, did I answer that for you with the salary of dental hygienists in Ontario? It really does depend and thank you guys for clicking like. It makes me feel good that people are actually listening to me. This is good. Any other questions you guys? These are great comments, great questions. Um let's see what can I say? So basically the common questions lately are teeth whitening businesses and having your own dental hygiene business. Check with your local association if you are allowed to open those businesses. Here in Ontario we can but it depends on your expertise, depends on all of that. Ask your association. I cannot do that for you because they will ask you questions that only you would know like how long you've been practicing, what your credentials are, things like that. Um what was your GPA when you graduated in dental hygiene? You have straight A's right now with three semesters left to go. Good for you. Holy moly. Um dental hygiene. I know I had straight A's in dental assisting. Dental hygiene. I want to say I had A's as well but not throughout. I always managed to upkeep the A's. I think I might have had a few B's. I don't know you guys but school was tough. School was really difficult. I just wanted to pass to be able to pass and graduate. Um so try not to worry too much about keeping up with the A's but of course you want to do that but just because you get A's in school doesn't mean you will pass the board exam if that makes you feel better or if you're getting a B's in school you'll it doesn't mean that you're not going to pass the board exam so just do the best you can and try not to get stressed out. I remember those days. What does continuing education look like for assisting in hygiene? Um like the different courses you take? I I really like VivaLearning.com. Let me type that out. VivaLearning.com. Free courses, free continuing education. Here in Ontario we need 75 hours of continuing education every three years. I take a lot more than that anyway but those are things that you have to do. Dental assistance. I'm not a dental assistant any well I am well no I'm not I'm a dental hygienist but I can't speak to their continuing education because I just don't know that's something that I would have to look up but you do have to maintain that and get continuing education to always be re-licensed every year. Um Amber Marie good question. Has the dentist ever asked you for your GPA? No they don't care about your marks.  They don't even care where you graduated just as long as you have graduated which is nice, eh? Um Niza Nisha oh my gosh sorry I'm probably pronouncing your name so wrong so let me answer your question. So you're currently dental hygiene school second second semester today exciting. We had our first patient any advice on applying what I learn in the book to patients? I feel like I'm separating the information. So you had your first patient where you were actually um cleaning their teeth? You know what the textbook and the real world is so different um is there something in particular that you're struggling with let me know. Um Amutia sorry if I'm pronouncing your name right as a new graduate um would you recommend working full-time? I know it's not a clear answer for this but what's your take? Um and you're right there's no clear answer but it's up to you. When I first graduated I wanted to work full-time I was excited I was ready to go um I believe I was working full-time but if you can't find full-time only part-time take it. Um there's no reason why I would not recommend working full-time. Um do I think um dental therapy is on the rise? Yes I think so. Oh hi um cry baby from Indonesia hello so nice to see you um in Jojo poo Jojo poo that's a good one um I like your name um you've been assisting for five years but your doctor did everything um you left your office and feel like in interviews you can't say that you have experience oh okay I see what you mean there are a lot of dentists that do do everything and they don't really let their assistant help them don't say that just act like you have experience I mean you will learn a lot on the job every office is different anyway so even if in the interview you get the job you're working in an office they they will do things differently anyway so don't worry about not feeling like you have experience you have to get experience somehow so don't openly say I feel like I have no experience the doctor did everything this means you are moldable you are willing to learn you're excited you understand that every office is different and you're looking forward to them teaching you how they do things that's how I would approach it um how do you go about reporting an office that has a dentist or or anyone being disrespectful to you oh such as a dentist throwing instruments to the floor oh my god do you still work there XX I would leave I would go so fast um good question about reporting I would report them to the dental association it's not easy um because you know who wants to do that but that's what I would do I wonder if you can even report them to what's called the labor board um because that's not safe work conditions so does that make sense I would absolutely report them tell your friend to report them because that's stressful nobody should have to deal with that nobody that's ridiculous oh my god oh so um Nisha so your first patient you went through the whole dental sequence today so like you went through like the paperwork you went through the like assessments the diagnosis the cleaning the teeth all of that it's it's overwhelming right I remember those days it gets easier I promise even in the real world it's easier school is tougher than the real world I'm telling you I'm telling holy cow like you have like what two hours um per clinic like per appointment sometimes you can't even finish one appointment in two hours um the real world is so much better if I can say that so it takes practice you guys I remember when I cleaned my first patient's teeth oh my god I probably barely touched them like I picked up a scaler barely touched her tooth I'm like oh my god I'm done the gum started bleeding what the heck true story now I get in there with my scalers curets and I'm rocking it okay I love to see bleeding because that tells me I'm doing a good job okay so you only got up to the probing part I remember probing and being super nervous it just takes practice I know that's not very good advice I remember asking dental hygienists too to give me advice and that's basically what they said it's so true don't be afraid to get right in there don't I mean don't hurt your patient but don't be super gentle either don't be afraid to get right in there ask your instructor questions they're there to help you clinically so they can help you more than me um second year Canadian dental student here you just wanted to say that you enjoy my videos oh thank you I'm so happy to hear that thank you for watching my videos I do hope that they help you that's truly my goal is to help you guys as much as possible it's my true passion I it really is I love teaching and mentoring the whole works so thank you guys for watching and thank you for clicking like thank you guys for subscribing I really appreciate it it makes me feel good that I have people watching my videos it really does makes me feel like this is why I do it sorry I'm just gonna have some water again ortho rdh you're so welcome my pleasure I do like to come on live for you guys often I just never know when I'm going to do it it depends on when I have time I'm literally fully booked like I'll show you guys my calendar it's crazy every second of every day is fully booked okay see there you go so I come on when I can so thank you um Nisha yes please ask away any questions you have amuta tips for handling difficult patients I have lots of videos on YouTube type in my channel like patients difficult patients I have lots of videos the best advice I can give you is kill them with kindness it works in my mobile practice if I have a difficult patient I just don't see them because I don't have time for that but you know what I've only ever had one difficult patient so far in a dental office there's lots of difficult patients kill them with kindness I promise you that's the way to go but if the kindness doesn't work then it's okay to be firm with them for example I've had difficult patients in the past who are just being difficult in one way or another I kill them with kindness nothing works they're becoming more and more rude then what I will actually say to them and it makes me feel so much better what I will say to them is okay you know what you're just being rude now I don't have time for this you can rebook with somebody else yeah that's what I do it makes me feel so much better so it's up to you xx your your very welcome Phoebe nope you did not come on too late I am still here thank you for coming on yes what is your question and Jay Hicks thank you for answering that tell them what you know and how the procedure goes you notice full disclosure helps and that's true now what was Amida's question again oh about the difficult patient or were you about another question about recommending full time maybe um Nisha so studying advice as a whole study two to six hours every day you know it depends if you work full time don't study six hours every day because you can't but at least study two hours a day take breaks do not study like six hours fully or you know four hours fully take a break so two hours in the morning two hours after a break in the afternoon two hours in the evening that's up to you be consistent with your studying but also take days off so if you feel burnt out you're tired take a day off that's allowed and something to keep in mind let's say you're studying anatomy and you're reading your PowerPoint for anatomy you're not going to learn that full PowerPoint the first time you read it it's going to take you two hours probably to read through everything you will barely probably grasp that PowerPoint do it again the next day you will grasp more and more I find the mistake a lot of students do is they will read let's say anatomy for two hours they expect to know everything and then they get annoyed when they don't know what they just read it's going to take you two or three days of reading the same PowerPoint to really grasp it that's the best advice I can give you don't give up it takes time but you can do it so Nisha I hope that that helps and Phoebe what is your question like feel free to ask away I'm not gone yet we have until 7.30 I just checked my time so we have 10 more minutes so please ask away Amira hello do you have any recommendations for colleges in Ontario is there a difference between a college what have we what we have to put into consideration honestly I don't all dental hygiene colleges are the same meaning they're not easy they're not hard you have to pay around the same it just really depends when I was looking for a college I wanted one close to home and that's what I did I prefer private colleges myself because they're easier to get into meaning if you have the money you can get in whereas community colleges you need to have like a 99% for them to even consider you and they only accept people certain months throughout the year whereas private colleges they typically always take intake you would just be part of a different group but that's just my opinion private colleges might be a little more expensive but worth every penny I went to private colleges for dental assisting for dental hygiene I wouldn't change a thing I went to Toronto College of dental hygiene by the way great school still really hard I cried every day it wasn't possible but all schools are like that as far as I know hope that helps sorry I'm getting some great questions I don't want to miss any here um Lauren Anderson how do you remember everything on an x-ray do you mean like the x-ray like how to point out enamel carries things like that is that what you mean and Phoebe says you've been an assistant for five years and you want to go to school for hygiene good for you if I get into the program would I be able to work as an assistant while in program or I have to be full time yes you can absolutely work as a dental assistant while you're in the dental hygiene program I tell people though if you don't have to work don't work the dental hygiene program is impossible it's so difficult I worked part-time and I wish I didn't have to because it was very stressful if I could have just not worked and focused on my studies I would have been so much less stressed but of course I was living on my own I needed to work I didn't have a choice but if somehow you don't have to work while in dental hygiene school don't do it that's my advice to you okay but to answer your question yes you can absolutely work as a dental assistant as well Anisha you're welcome Rod hello how do you manage bio aerosols in the operatory in this pandemic so I'm a mobile hygienist it's different I don't have to manage the aerosols I mean not the same as a dental office I go into patients home so they're exposed to their aerosols only I wear the full PPE so I have the gown the KN95 mask the level three mask I have a face shield my safety glasses that's how I manage them Rod I hope that helps let me know though if I didn't answer something for you XX where to start to look what certified you wanted to do temp work and also where to look to work in a mobile office XX so basically any office is usually hiring you can even email offices and sending your resume and just say I would love to be considered when you're hiring for this position check online like those online job search sites definitely check that a mobile dental hygienist are not usually hiring like me I'm a mobile dental hygienist but I'm just one person I'm not hiring I don't know any mobile dental hygienist that are but you never know you can do like you can post on a Facebook group and you can say hey which offices are hiring well like a dental hygiene or a dental assistant Facebook group in this location are there any mobile dental hygienist hiring in this location so you can do that Lauren Anderson sorry excuse me Lauren Anderson so the floor of the orbit the maxillary tube rosty oh I don't know I find those you just have to memorize the landmarks like I know them now pretty well I think just because of constant memorizing so anytime you have to like landmarks anatomy x-rays anything like that is just memorizing I know not the most exciting but that's kind of what you do Amira yes I do so Amira is asking do you have any videos or advice on the admissions test and the interviews for the colleges yes Amira do a search on my youtube channel for interview or like dental hygiene interview dental assisting interview some of my most viewed youtube content is advice on interviews they're older videos though I feel I look horrible in them I don't like I should have done like better lighting or something but I do so definitely have a look for those do a search on my channel you will find amazing videos I wonder can I find that for you guys on my different monitor Amira I'm gonna kind of do a search now for you to see if I can find it okay I'm gonna do a search throughout my answering here and then I'll post it Phoebe you're so welcome I hope that helps xx Oxford College yeah so basically look for certified colleges I don't want to talk ill about any colleges so I will not but the good ones that I've heard of are Toronto College of Dental Hygiene A plus dental hygiene Oxford College is in Toronto so I'm just talking about other colleges that are in Toronto too so look at them it can't hurt to ask for a tour tour the college talk to the staff there so you get a good feeling for kind of what you want and hey you might apply to all of them and only one of them accepts you so kind of look at that too I'm just doing a search for interviews I want to find one of my YouTube videos where okay oh no but it's a dental interview that's right it's not about admissions ah I did find one you guys let me it was three years ago I forget what I say in this but a lot of people really liked it so I am posting the link right here for you interview prep okay there hope that helps but still do a search on my YouTube channel for interview and you'll find tons um M is asking hello how to upgrade and improve as a dental assistant certificates or something else that's a good question with the pandemic you can't really take in-person courses I do offer a refresher course for dental assistants if you're interested let me put my website down feel free to message me through my website and I can give you more information so what I do offer is just basically like videos on just a refresher dental assistant course how to be the best dental assistant possible but you also don't need that like you can take continuing education I love VivaLearning.com for a continuing education they have great courses just type in like dental assistant in the search bar and then you'll find tons OrthoRDH everybody's different piezo or cavatron I prefer piezo I have used both I just prefer piezo is lighter on the patient but still does a really really good job without being too heavy-handed but I have known close dental hygienists who we have worked together they hate the piezo they love the cavatron so it really depends on who you ask I suggest trying both and you will find one that you prefer but definitely an investment a good investment though I couldn't live without my piezo Nisha yes now a mobile dental hygienist isn't common or popular in a lot of areas a lot of areas you can't have your own mobile dental hygiene business I'm a mobile dental hygienist I'm a I'm a mobile dental hygienist because in my area you can be one I'm the only one though in my area so I go to patients homes because it's more comfortable for them easier for them and I clean teeth that way I love it I would not have it any other way I love it yes Amira I will actually do another video check out the ones that I have though on YouTube now I'm making a note for myself because it might be a week or so before I can do that video but that's a really good video topic thank you so stay tuned for my YouTube then make sure to subscribe so you guys can see these videos and you guys have the link to my new podcast check it out because I do update my podcast even more if you look on Spotify or just anywhere that you can listen to podcasts my podcast is doing dental differently I will type that out doing dental differently that's my podcast okay guys a couple more minutes for questions and then I do have to go because I'm teaching this evening so comment and I will answer as much as I can before 7.30 we have two more minutes Liz hello at what millimeter gum recession would you advise for a gum graft I have no gum disease and just recently got a mouth guard and sonic brush oh good for you mouth guards are awesome I love sonic toothbrushes I actually don't recommend a gum graft unless you're in pain from your dental reception because a gum graft is an invasive surgery takes forever to heal it's painful and 90% of the time it doesn't work very well I've never had a happy patient after a gum graft but if you're in pain from your dental recession then a gum graft does help because it covers it up and you won't be in pain anymore but typically we say if it's five millimeters or more recession to get a gum graft but I still don't I don't recommend them brush carefully brush lightly that's the best way to not get dental reception reception if you have gum recession don't brush too hard and the best thing to do is to maintain it so it doesn't get worse not brushing too hard and but brushing well twice a day every day with a good toothpaste a good mouthwash don't brush too hard that's the best advice so Liz that's a great question I even have videos on my youtube channel about gum recession so definitely check those out where I do offer you guys more tips okay you guys any last minute questions we have one more minute I'm sorry I do have to go to teach but I hope that this helped you guys I will be uploading some more videos as always thank you so much for all of your comments today and thank you guys for commenting on the videos I do try to answer them in a good amount of time I apologize if it takes me a little while if you ever need to reach me as soon as possible go to my website I'm going to type it in again at dentall.podia.com I have my website information in the description anyway of all of my youtube videos plus my podcast link as well send me a message through there and I can get back to you quicker okay youtube comments are more difficult I get a lot of them which is great please keep commenting but it just might take me a little bit longer to get back to you you guys were awesome thank you so much for hopping on I love to talk to all of you guys this is recorded I'm going to post the recording as soon as it's available thank you guys for listening and commenting Crystal what are your classes and when should we look into them do you mean the classes that I have for my teaching um if you go to my website scroll down and then you will see I teach a board exam prep academy I teach all of that feel free to look down there on my website and then you can see all of the different classes that I do have oh hi um Jesse from Korea that's exciting thank you thank you for commenting thanking um blah thanking thank you for saying hello that is amazing from Korea that's exciting thank you have a great night as well everybody have a fantastic night thank you again for hopping on thank you for clicking like it makes me feel pretty special um and crystal yes so have a look at the website and you can open up a chat box on the website and send me a message directly if you have any questions okay you guys sorry to cut this short I gotta go I don't want to be late for my students have a great evening I can't say that enough it was so nice to talk to you guys thank you bye for now xx thank you bye guys


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My name is Paolo Vela, I am from Peru, and I will be an E4C fellow in 2021, advancing the Sustainable Development Goal number three, good health and well-being. I want to apply my engineering skills for social good because there is an urgent need to address healthcare challenges globally. And from my own experience with my younger brother, who was a victim of a late diagnostic of a neuro-motor disease, I understand the impact that diseases have in people's lives and also all the struggle that the family have to face in the traditional healthcare system. As an E4C fellow, I will be working with commandees in order to find the challenges and the opportunities involved in the digital temperature management systems for medical supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa. In 10 years, I hope to be working on innovative solutions that involve artificial intelligence and Internet of Things, managing multiple research projects and leading cross-cultural multidisciplinary teams, either as a researcher or as an entrepreneur. Through this fellowship, I hope to master the correct approach to find sustainable and scalable solutions for real-life tangible problems. In addition, I expect to inspire more Peruvian engineers to look towards the SDGs and join us in this journey to make a difference with faith, courage and enthusiasm.


How's that for an inch? It's February 10th, 2022 today temperature outside is minus 11 Celsius or 12 Fahrenheit Looks to be a little bit windy out there. We're supposed to get some snow. There's a 99% chance of snow So they're saying there's a chance it might not snow. So that's good. We'll see how the day goes It's Thursday, so Tomorrow's Friday. We've got that A lot of flags everywhere nowadays A lot of flags. Here's another one. Is he gonna pull it for me? No, he's gonna let me pass I tried to buy a flag the other day just because I collect flags, right? I have a whole bunch of them All the price of Canadian flags has gone through the roof And you got to wait like four weeks on Amazon to get It's nuts very popular Very popular at least around my parks and from what I see they're pretty popular Everywhere right now, but especially around our area. There seems to be quite a few flags It was great to see pride in the country. I just don't like it when they're flown upside down Okay, I understand that a lot of people right now are frustrated with the government Okay, we're not gonna get all into that in my channel here. Okay. I'm trying to keep my nose out of that on my channel here, okay? Doing my part but here in YouTube land. We're just going to focus on what we love doing But I know a lot of people are frustrated But that flag represents us the Canadian people. It doesn't represent any politician So just because you're mad at a politician Doesn't mean you should fly it upside down that I want to say that The flag is to be flown upright all the time. It represents us the Canadian people I think that's why you see a lot of the flag around the country right now You see a lot of the Canadian people Flying their symbols around saying hey, I'd like to be heard We are the Canadian people. We want to be heard. Yeah, that's that's what's sort of going on right now But let's not focus that on here. I want to focus on brightening your day if I start talking about that We're all just gonna get mad Let's not get mad. Let's stay glad. All right. Let's go start the truck up here. Let's let's do what we enjoy Let's keep things moving around here So that the rest of the people here can continue you know Living their lives and eating The sun keeps coming up earlier and earlier The street lights are already off. I don't know if it's still purple We're just gonna have to assume that it's still purple and they haven't fixed it yet Maybe I should assume the best. Maybe I should say maybe they have fixed it. Oh boy. I can't see four-wheel drive We've got a clearing. Let's go Don't want to get stuck on a road here. Here we go It's a bit of a blustery day out here today, isn't it? Oh dear. Well, I gotta go up to two on today in this It should be fun It should be a lot of fun Might take a little longer than usual. I'm just gonna go ahead and Throw that guess out there All right, we're gonna give this a very cautious attempt We have some freight, but if it gets too bad, we're turning around and coming right back And we're getting close to that line of turning around But I've been looking at traffic cameras online of the roads ahead and it clears up as I go along So the worst seems to be right here according to all the live cams It's always nice to have those those are a godsend so we should be all right You can see traffic is moving faster than I am which I'm okay with I don't want to be the fastest one moving down the highway today Here okay good. I think we'll be all right. We're just gonna take it slow You know, this is Manitoba. This is Canada and trucking in Canada doesn't shut down just because of a little snowfall There is a limit where we shut down there absolutely is a line But if you draw that line too close or too short You don't get anything done because it's always snowing. You can't always shut down But it is a fine line you got to sort of learn where that is and it's all about personal judgment Unless if it gets really bad then the the RCMP come in and they tell you all right go home roads closed So far they haven't done that anywhere in the province yet all roads are still open So we'll just be careful We'll see what happens. The roads did end up clearing out. Look at this And that's why we ventured out slowly and carefully But now we're through it all and the storm has passed It's nice to be able to have the resources of those live traffic cams that you can look at anytime you want I'm pretty sure everywhere has those now, right? Unless you live like way way far away from the urban areas, but Since I'm delivering around the Winnipeg area, we pretty much have traffic cams all around the city and you can just log on to 511manitoba.ca and See what the road conditions are exactly where you're headed There's just a few delays on the perimeter on the way up to here up to too long here, but Didn't delay us too long. We're okay and Got our work done. We got our load in our trailer behind us Another successful day That's what I mean when you when you go trucking up here in Canada. It's Sometimes it's a hit and miss other times It's you know, you got to watch the forecast you got to look at the traffic cams and make a personal judgment And as for today it worked out in our favor We got another pickup truck coming up behind me like he's got the flags in the back again, too Man those guys are everywhere. I don't know if it's like that around the rest of the country But southern Manitoba heat Alberta's even more in Saskatchewan Crazy times we're in crazy times What a time to be alive, you know We're living through history and I know that sounds kind of like the course will be through history But we're living through events right now that are going to be talked about for the rest of the existence of our country Oh, no, this guy doesn't have any flags. It's okay. It's okay. It would have been okay if you had them, too I don't care either way We're living through times right now that You know, we're making history a course with this virus pandemic.  And who's going to be teaching it to them and what language will it be in? That's not really an issue in Canada right now. It'll be in English or French But we're not facing any, you know, like big invasion or something from Russia. That would be scary to live through And you know my thoughts and prayers go I don't say that with a light heart I know that there's I know what the issues in Ukraine and everything there So I just want to say my heart goes out there. I hope everything gets resolved peacefully.   We've got some pretty warm temperatures outside And I think this weekend is shaping up to be pretty good It's a good day to be truckin Zalazy weasel Weasel You earned it buddy Enjoy retirement Yeah, I think I will thank you Yeah, I'm really glad we have the resources we have now like the the live traffic cams and stuff Uh up and down our highways. It really helps a lot. You can sort of see into the future where you're headed How it's going to be and sort of get more of an idea of if things are improving or getting worse Uh, if you're in manitoba, you can go to the website 511 like the numbers 511 and then manitoba.ca I believe that's the website But it'll give you a map and it'll tell you which roads are closed and which ones are in bad condition Which ones are open and clear and you'll be able to click on these little camera icons And that represents the live cameras at certain sections around the perimeter and around the province And you can see uh live exactly what the roads are like there That helped a lot today So manitoba is a pretty small population So i'm guessing where you're from there's probably more people around there than we have out here And if that's the case, well, you probably have a lot more resources available to you already for the live cams and traffic updates and stuff Uh, if you're thinking about getting into trucking people ask me for advice sometimes one of my biggest pieces of advice would be uh Locate and get familiar with all of your resources For highways and highway and road conditions Stay on top of the weather always watch the weather forecast so that you're not blindsided by by anything by like a rainstorm or a tornado or high winds or snow or Extreme heat or extreme cold know what's coming in the future where you're going or where you're at Uh, and stay on top of road conditions before you leave I don't leave and then Realize on the way out. Oh shoot. Maybe I should have checked road conditions before I left I've done that before and you got to find a place to pull over and Try to remember to do that before you leave. I'm speaking to myself there as well. That's always a good idea What else would there be uh in the us more people use a cb radio there So if you have a cb radio in your truck, uh, and you have that on Very often drivers will give you a heads up if there's any accidents or bad weather coming ahead There's also a lot of garbage on there. That's Why honestly, I don't have one Whenever I went down there and if I go down to the deep south, I couldn't understand what they were saying on the cb Anyway, so it's kind of pointless for me to have it on Because all I would hear is just out of the blue That's all I would hear on the radio And I'm not trying to make fun of them, but I can't understand what you guys are saying Up here in canada the cb radios aren't as popular though some of the old school truckers still have them in their trucks Uh, but there's not as many people to talk to also out east in canada people use different channels I think they use channel one to talk on instead of channel 19 But channel 19 for whatever reason is the general channel that everybody's generally on In western canada and all over the us But yeah, you can get some updates there. It's a good idea to have a cb radio in your truck I should probably have one to be honest I just uh know before you go And always be prepared. Okay. Always prepared because we all know the weathermen are wrong now and then So uh be prepared to be stuck on the highways and with everything going on in our world right now with uh blockades and stuff Uh, a lot of these drivers are now stuck in traffic and stuck trying to cross the border And they don't have supplies in their trucks and they're running out of food And stuff maybe some of these drivers need their medication and they need to go and pick up the medication For their health And they're stuck on the road so always make sure that you're ready to be stuck anywhere for I'd say at least three days at least Have food in your truck for at least three days and if you want I should actually recommend you more like a week Always have a week towards a food like non perishable food in your truck just in case of emergencies I always had cans of soup and stuff Just in case you run out of food and you're stuck somewhere either in a snowstorm Uh a blockage on the highway or whatever that you're you're gonna have food and water Have lots of water with you all the time just stuff like that blankets if your truck stops running um Maybe some electric fans. I'll show you the fan here that I always had in my truck I'm actually using it on our window here right now Uh This thing is awesome. I got it on amazon and it runs off batteries You charge it and then it'll run for like eight hours Just in case you're in a hot climate and you want to keep some air movement and your truck won't run There's that so it's always pays to be prepared for everything Anyways, thanks for watching today everybody not much footage But like I said yesterday been a little tired this week. I've been trying to uh, keep up with a lot of things and my brain is just Exhausted my body is doing all right, but my brain is just exhausted and I've been taking it easy We'll see you tomorrow. Take care everybody.


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So the reason my society have decided to establish TIC-TEC as a conference, it's really our understanding of the civic tech world in general is very fragmented. Lots of different practitioners, lots of different sizes of organisations. Often a lot of the work that we see in different countries around the world is actually being delivered by small voluntary groups or people who've come together on projects. So there's no clearly defined set of metrics or understanding about impact itself but also often a lot of these organisations just simply don't have the resources to be able to measure what they do as they're doing it. If you have a two person organisation in a country in sub-Saharan Africa and you maybe have a little bit of development resource it's about all you can do maybe to build a tool or take a piece of code that someone else has used and deploy that. You're having the resources of finding the time and energy to actually work out if that actually makes a difference to people's lives on top of that is a huge undertaking in many cases. So I think if my society can make any difference to TIC-TEC it's given people a broader understanding of what's out there and what they can make use of. It's also providing directly tools and services and methodologies and frameworks that people can use to structure their efforts and maybe just make what they're doing a little bit more impactful understand why it works and maybe use that learning in future projects. At the end of the first day of TIC-TEC it's been a fantastic day so far I mean some really kind of wonderful contributions lots of kind of great ideas, lots of different approaches as well I think there's a lot of people trying to approach these problems from different perspectives and also from different projects and you know they've taken what they've learned and they're trying to understand what's the bigger picture and I think ultimately that's what TIC-TEC can do is give a bit more of a frame for what this all means collectively and how we can learn from each other and you apply that to our future work as well. The civic technology space is still, we describe it as being relatively new it's maybe built up over the past seven or eight years perhaps and I think there's a danger that it is encountering a lot of these issues afresh and not understanding that there's a bigger world out there that a lot of these problems that we're facing about measurement about definitions of impact, about how to kind of motivate citizens to get more engaged these are problems which have been solved in other situations other disciplines like your communications, marketing, academia more traditional NGOs a lot of these issues have been dealt with and solved but maybe there's not a full understanding of what is out there already that we can take advantage of so if TIC-TEC can help maybe expose people to some of those other ways of doing things and we can take that and bring it back to our own practice I think we'll really be helping the sector overall My society has been involved in research about 18 months now and our head of research, Rebecca Rumbles doing a great job really establishing what our research framework is what types of activities need to sit with under that framework and also being able to carry out a lot of really interesting research to really ask difficult questions of the work we've already done today and the work that's been done in the wider sector to really properly understand does this stuff really make a difference is it really changing people's lives, if it is changing people's lives whose lives are it changing and in what way so those difficult questions don't always bring back the kind of answers you necessarily want to hear sometimes the results are sort of unpalatable or maybe it hasn't worked in quite the way we thought it was but it's only by asking those difficult questions can we really kind of make progress and really ensure that civic technology has the impact that we all want it to have so over the next few years my society has really put in research front and centre of everything that we do every new project, every new service really has kind of research methodologies built into it but also we're looking at how we can take those methodologies and those learnings and share it with the wider community to encourage more people to apply the same methods to look at things in the same way so we can compare and contrast between different situations and then we really help the whole sector move forward


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Priyanka and I am going to help you with the following question which says classify the following numbers as rational or irrational. Now these are the five parts to the question which are given to us and we need to tell them whether they are rational or irrational. So if we know that what are rational and irrational numbers we can easily classify them. Irrational numbers are those numbers which are non terminating non veckering decimals. That means they do not end and also the points after the decimal do not repeat. So and the vice versa is the rational numbers which are terminating decimals. So rational numbers are terminating decimals or it can be in the form of people by q where q is not equal to 0. Right? So the knowledge of what are rational number and irrational number and rational numbers are the key idea we are going to use in order to proceed on with our solution. So let us start with our solution. Now the first part is given to us as 2 minus root 5. Now we know that root 5 is an irrational number so therefore 2 minus root 5 will also be irrational number. So the answer to the first part is that it is an irrational number. Proceeding on to the next one. Now the number which is given to us is 3 plus root 23 in bracket minus root 23. So let us proceed on firstly opening the bracket that will be 3 plus under root 23 minus root 23. Root 23 will get cancelled to each other and we are left with 3. So it is a rational number because 3 can also be written as 3 by 1 where 1 is not equal to 0. So it is in the form of p by q where q is not equal to 0. So it satisfies the condition of being rational. Right? So this completes the second part. Proceeding on to the third part. 2 root 7 divided by 7 root 7. Now root 7 will get cancelled out with each other and we are left with 2 by 7 which is in the form of p by q where q that is the denominator is not equal to 0. So therefore we can write that 2 by 2 root 7 by 7 root 7 is a rational number. Proceeding on to the fourth part. We are given 1 by root 2. Now we know that root 2 is an irrational number. So therefore 1 by root 2 is an irrational number. Proceeding on to the last and final part. Section given to us is. Now again, i's value is an irrational value. So it is an irrational number basically. So anything multiplied by an irrational number will lead to an irrational number only. So 2 pi is an irrational number itself. So the answer to the last and final part is also irrational. So this completes the entire question which was given to us. I hope you liked the session. Just remember what are irrational and rational numbers and you can classify any number given to you according to the definitions and conditions known to you. I hope you enjoyed the session. Bye for now.


It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa is it coming. I took his year with us this morning. Is it girl? It's good to have you join us Good morning Good morning. Always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. All right Let's run through the pages this morning looking at the papers and we can really predict what the papers will be talking about I like to start off with the punch. She says I next shifts governorship Assembly polls by one week and achieves governorship assembly polls by one week and that you know took a lot of persons by surprise Commission space despite ruling 176,000 machines cannot be come Reconfigured before Saturday Election materials distribution disrupted in Delta or Schoen by Elsa and cross river others These are some of the reasons of course that's been put out by the umpire for the postponement of the elections Buhari can be prosecuted after May 29 says son That's on the Naira's accuracy. I mean it's such a great Interesting, you know headline this morning companies consumers taxes increased by 42% according to the National Bureau of Statistics MBS Longfield Q's ground Abuja and neighboring states. I could tell you For sure that that's really the case National Assembly female membership drops as 11 Lost reelection bid and then you find someone who orders probe as Buhari sympathizes with market fire victims. There's also a pictorial representation to that. There's been a lot of You know thoughts out there, but we're requesting that everyone should stay put as the police carry out their duty Terrorist kill five villagers abduct 53. That's a Niger state very saddening That's the much we can take this morning on the punch quickly to the vanguard. It leads to the The big story there be vast be vast as entered the National Excon for ever be vast I like shifts guba Assembly polls to March 18 Needs five days to reconfigure 176,600 and six be vast machines. You normally Leave out those 606 very important Confucian Heralds postponement we hear president Buhari is already in daughter. Is that he didn't know it wasn't out there. Anyway Peter OB others in court and that is a picture of Of that that story. That's a big story Buhari to Nigerians in diaspora FG and placed credible Propose a fixed be vast or fixed be vast glitches before governorship assembly polls NBA Tells Ionic. All right, and they also talking to their members as well Legos guba some will who tipped to win based on experience. That's an avatorial there in The vanguard and put a chart of who they expect to to win the election and all but You can see LP coming distant that Pdp second and so with a wide lead Okay, but that is an avatorial court. Okay, it's I next request to reconfigure be vast. Okay, so the story is on the front page of The vanguard newspaper Well, that's a turn our attention to the leadership quickly this morning The leadership is not reporting different from all the papers You have hours after court ruling Inaq postponed's governorship polls by one week to reconfigure beavers That's boldly written. There's several writers right there, but I would just leave it of that Supplementary elections to hold in dog was constituency. I'm a orders that is six car queues warriors and plus helicopters from the United States I hope I got that correctly presidential poll to do boo inaugurates 49 sands as legal team and then you find article meets I BB Abdul salami names Gazama head of legal team Save NIPC from mismanagement now directors tell federal government now bandits kill pregnant woman 11 others abduct 50 in Niger and Kaduna state not just when Nigerians were excited Kofi Remember the talk about the narrow redesign and kidnapping and you know bandit's attack if it was like You know Resumed in that quarter Yes, indeed. Yes indeed We'll move on from that mercy to the Guardian very quickly court orders be vast Reset as I next shifts guba polls to March 18 so many writers as you know with a guardian will leave it that that World kidney day 45,000 Nigerians die early due to kidney failure We're a PC, but we'll vote PDP in Nassarra guba poll deployment of ICT director not reason for beavers technical H. I net claims, you know, that story is something that has gone on at the radar But some people have to bring it to my attention IWD Canadian on-voices Nigeria facing serious as GBV crisis My son bad Ibo not Ibo no link with IPO be says road fever That's his father and the lawyer or lawale roads. We were here to address the press yesterday 97% of firms in Nigeria Others to experience tech skills challenge in 2023 its headlines the front page of the card in Nation that's up next. Yeah, okay So we just quickly run through the nation this morning He says I net sheeps governorship assembly polls by one week and you can see a pictorial representation I mean polls tip as song will you to retain seats so you have that Imagine so you can see that graph there But let's not stay too much in that we move away while legosians should vote song will you sounds like an Advertorial right there. Well, my he is quoted to say president elect inaugurates legal team and then Tunibu Hills Martial speakers G 24 director Don't truncate power transition and see or NS CIA worms 324 house of representative members elects Get the C or that certificate of return 324 house of reps members elects get the C or and that's the much we can take this morning on the nation newspaper All right, let's start with this one from the the Guardian where they send the deployment of the Or should I say really employment of the ICT director and not a reason why the There was a glitch Some both have said that all they wanted to he didn't agree for some told me he refused to and was a legend Rather, he refused to rig the beavers and then they took him out of that position, but I guess come up to say this is not true Because he had been really ploy since the 16th of August 2022 As the director of ICT at the headquarters and they transferred him to illegal branch to serve as administrative secretary There and this was six months before the election.  I Definitely smell something fishy. Good morning, Nigeria's again. Um, I mean, it doesn't make sense that for the person that developed a software or The platform for the most important action that you want to take The person that developed that Software or that platform Six months to the use to the deployment of that platform You move him out to come and become an administrative secretary. I mean, it just doesn't make sense It doesn't add up Except of course, it's on punitive grounds and if that be the case it either he defaulted You know in public interest or in private interest if it's in public interest You'll be so much in a hurry to make know what he did so as to constantly and continuously gain public, you know Credibility not not credibility but public acceptance of the process because the most important aspect of everything you do concerning election is Public confidence No matter how good a policy or an application is Except it has the buy-in of the public is as good as not good so for you to redeploy such a person six months to the most important Action you've got to take in four years is very suspect And you know it made many of us to go back to the background of this person and When you see the profile of the person it Intimidating it a perfect fit for purpose and the fact that I make itself had Confess not confess had made public, you know, maybe even boosted positively that these beavers machine was you know an in-house You know configuration or it was you know, it was designed in-house and It has been tested and retested and gone through a lot of you know Integrity tests and has passed it's something to be proud of and if anything At the end the person in question ought to be celebrated as a national hero and Everything was heading in that direction, but it so happens that after or soon It became clear That this thing was Too good for Nigeria So the question is how do we now? compromise it To compromise it. We've got to get this guy out of the seat. This is my own thinking and Because it's out of the seat Others have to be trained in the act of managing the processes and if your own main Concern was that the integrity was too high and could not be manipulated It means that whether you're bringing in has to be somebody who's coming to do a bidding and that's why in my opinion We find ourselves where we are today Which is very unfortunate if we are to talk more into it. I'll tell you why It's more unfortunate than Nigerians know the ocean elections were on the 16th of July 2022 and The deployment of this man to administrate sector in Inugu was on the 16th of August 2020 exactly one month after Well That great my story I'll tell you because The way Nigerians hailed the ocean election. It was why would such a person? Having received such high. We didn't know who he was if anything we were Attributing everything to Inaq. Oh, Inaq is awesome. Inaq is wonderful. Inaq. This is marvelous We gave all the adjectives you could imagine to Inaq and then Inaq was so happy that they say guy Look look look get out one month after think about it Okay, but let's you know look at the thoughts of a senior advocate of Nigeria Rashid Adeguke Who's like I've mentioned a senior advocate of Nigeria who spoke on the issue of disregard? for the Supreme Court order on the Nairi design and when asked the question What could be done as a retribution to the president for? Disobeying the laws of the land and he said that the president, you know can be prosecuted Do you think that the president can be prosecuted? You know after he leaves office it probably would be the first Great question, but honestly between you and I as something I don't even it's a distraction for me right now Say has the bond with the pursue rat for bush where the man is Presupported after now or not is a list of the problems of Nigerians Question is for what we are how do we get ourselves out of this rubbish that we found ourselves in now But is he can I took I think that it will be unfair for you know us to dismiss that entirely because if you look at it It still has a connection. We're talking about the rule of law here up until this moment Nigerians are going through a lot now and when I mean a lot it means a lot the Short codes and the online transactions are not very seamless and that's a problem. You can't find physical cash You can't even find cash anywhere and for you know, those who have this cash they are selling it at a very exorbitant rate and so This according to the senior advocate is that it's supposed to serve as a deterrent that those who are coming behind Let's seem to be a lot a lot of lawlessness Disregard for the rule of law Especially in this administration And so do you think that it would be fair for us to say and that's not important because this is this is where we are I mean we're still burned the brunt of the fact that Including the the the the the judges who gave the ruling at the Supreme Court I'm not sure they accepting the the the ordinary As a means of transaction Nigerians are rejected life is difficult the new notes are not available and up on to this moment I just are hoping that the president would give a directive will say something or the CBN governor and nothing is forthcoming So yes again as a way of retribution as a way of treating lawlessness by those who should respect the law Do you think that the president can be prosecuted? by way of Treating those who disrespect the law what you should do is what is happening now get them out If you cannot get them out now, what makes the prosecuting somebody after which, you know It's going to take care. How is that more important? You see? I think we must locate some things where they are now and Nigerians if they are hearing me They should wake up and listen to me and listen real good How many of you Have decided to put your heart throw your heart into the ring to make that show that Nigeria changes How many are willing to make that sacrifice? Secondly for those who decided to throw your heart into the ring how many of us are really supporting them and Looking at issues you see what why I say we should come back to the issues of the moment It's because I think Nigerians are really not You know, I did a video some days back where I targeted exclusively the elite You know when you want to embark on an election like like I did everybody's advising me go to the rural areas Go to the poor go to rural areas. They are the voters. They are the voters and they are right Why do I have to go to people who don't understand the essence of what they are voting for? This people want little money because life is hard for them, but we want to recruit a CEO for Nigerians and think about it Who is taking that decision the rural areas the poor people who need some money some cash you can blame them So politicians know this much. How about you and I that know better who forms? 70% of those that don't vote have you realized that virtually every voting time it's about 30% or less 30% or less That is because the 70% Either would not or could not and over 70% of them would not because they are so intelligent to know that Vote will not matter whatever they would do they would do and if this is the mindset Then why do we spend billions of our hard-earned money for us to have the ritual called election? I think the people that we need to talk to at this point in time is the elite the enlightened people who should actually activate their 70% base and Get into a leadership recruitment that will give us a sort of leadership that we want It's it's a conversation that the media needs to come to start to have How do we recruit a CEO? The mentalities go to rural areas. They are the voters go to the villages Why will a villager listen to the grammar of architecture instead of collecting the 2000 of the politician? It's a conversation We need to really sit and interrogate because the problem of Nigeria is not the poor man That has to collect money to survive is not a problem. I've come to realize I'm contesting I don't blame them one bit. It is the 70% of the elites Who would not get in and would not support the people that are getting in? Now they expect me to go there and be getting support. No, there are two ways you get your funding It's either you kind of go and them get a sponsor big man and it's a little enterprise Or you say no, no, no, no, no I want properly done and then the closest person that has tried to do this. It means to Peter will be you know Try to activate Nigerians to come on board. But that that that is being dampened by what has happened with the beefers That active base that was starting to get ignited that well There's going to credible elections right now. The apathy is unimaginable And I'm really really concerned this morning about about what's going on as a result with we are postponing election by one week Do we understand what that means? I'll tell you this as somebody who is in the field the man that is an incumbent he does a marathon But you that is you know coming on you do a dash That means you limit yourself largely to a big bang in the last two weeks And that's what some of us have done in the last two weeks We do a real big bang and we're like all over and people go that mentality into the elections Now we threw in everything we've got and guess what has happened With the the people that have the deep pocket after we spent our last resources Have one more week to counter everything that we have said Where am I gonna get the money to go in for another one week? Is it gonna come from gonna come from? It's it's it's demoralizing it. It is destabilizing It is it is something that people don't really know the implication of this one week Delay on account of I next ineptitude or incompetence or lack of commitment I've always been one that speaks for I net always the chairman. I have been his greatest cheerleader, but right now I Just Just quickly he said something about implication Maybe you just take us through what you think the implication might be or maybe for this election I'll tell you number one Forget those who are starting to get gingerd Credible election blah blah blah. They are calling me one by one is like architect Don't waste your money anymore. I keep it. Don't waste your money because for them This last rush Especially with the new CVN policy that he can bring back the old note. It is cash and carry It's cash and carry. That's number one number two this morning. I'll tell you Personally this morning Friday all my staff Secretariat supporters, you know, that's core core supporters, you know You know the volunteer group they are Right now making their way to my office for end of activity celebration That's what you're heading for and make sure that there's going to be a lot of food and lots of things to ginger Them to all go back home and man their post What's gonna happen to me because I'd spend the last doing the last push and everything and it came out particularly well Now when they come back to the office this morning, I'm going to tell them guys. Sorry. Don't go back home Now am I going to have that party today? Or am I going to also postpone it one more week? Am I going to postpone when the the the facilities have been already put in place the cooks have done their work They've been paid now if I have that bank now to ginger them to go to their homes How am I going to do again next Friday another one from which money? When I spent all the money I had in the last push I have one more week one more week of doing what Is this just is this peculiar to you or do you think it's not it's peculiar to all the non-government people All the other parties that were coming in as the fresh air as the hope for the people That is you don't need to spend you know to keep anyone last week Push in everything you've got pushing everything run it right in and Deploy the people like I said ginger them to go back to the field tomorrow and vote So now is everybody the only people are government those in power Who have an allocation that has come in again? So they can afford to delay salary for one week or anything and carry that money and dump in it and go ahead and Undo virtually you know there's any strategies for recent. I'll give you a little bit of the strategy There is one group that is extremely extremely important and that group Was to make a statement today in my favor You understand me and as a result people are already known because the messages have gone down today The government is having no tomorrow a meeting to get that same group and undo whatever it is I was supposed to do which they wouldn't have been able to because that would not have been allowed now What are you going to do again?  Let me put that that way So I actually is gonna take the grace of God right now. I've resigned myself to the grace of God Maybe it's just as well because and it's happening to all the new kids on the block All of them all the new parties that are coming up. There are not the institutions parties They're all going to have a real hard time and Nigerians have not yet really come into you know supporting and defending them, but I still believe in miracles I believe that the prayers of the people over the years Will manifest because this election is pivotal whoever takes it You can be sure it's taking for another 80 years at 80 years to your life You will know that it's something that we didn't have to take a chance on. I'm really really Asking God to help me at this time. That's just what it comes to All right, it's equally I took we have to leave it at that order. Thank you very much for your time lots of stories But so little so limited time and we're looking forward to the elections You are candidate to go to ship election. Do you consider the postponement as a Reprieve or you think the evil days just been postponed. I mean, sorry. I used that that term Yeah, yeah, I get I hear you loud and clear like I said in my closing argument I've just said it's something that what you never prayed for you never prayed for But as a Christian the Bible says all things work together for my good So from last night what I've been doing through the night is reprogramming my mind seeing the no silver lighting beyond the cloud looking at Yeah, look at things I could have done better if I had one more day So those are the things that I've looked at so for me I'm just turning my mind the other way around saying thank you Jesus This must have been from you. I'm going to do this So I'm happy with this last question because I was actually almost relapsing to my own Self before Now thank you I'm reprogramming my mind and I'm saying Nigerians. Please wake up all the young people or when I say young I mean the new people their resources are depleted run in Nigerians and Support them financially to make another push for another closing arguments. All right All right me while president worries in Dara for the lectures I'm sure that he's just like every ordinary citizen who must have prepared was not aware and it was going to postpone the elections It's all good. Thank you very much. We hope to see you next week And they will talk some more a few days to you know, your d-day We'll take a break. We'll take a break in where we come back Look at the entire situation with the beavers. They call of appeals a ruling and of course The martyrs are rising stay with us We'll be right back


We often worry about how do we Figure out what the coaches are going to be doing and what the goal of the program is and what expertise we want them to have Well, we need to also simultaneously prepare principles and prepare teachers for working with coaches and If we fail to do this Then our coaching program is going to be a little more complex So let me offer just a few suggestions about the critical Components that I think need to be in a principal preparation For working with coaches and a teacher's preparation for working with coaches and then I'm going to give you An opportunity to perhaps offer some of your own ideas first and foremost How a principal talks to a staff about coaching in a school is Has a huge influence on the success of the coaching in that school So the degree to which a principal is able to communicate how coaching will advance student learning without saying things like Or in flooring or insinuating things like we have to change our teaching practices because what we're doing isn't working How closely we are able to align to a Continuous improvement message versus oh we have these horrible problems message Will influence substantially how successful coaching will be If teachers in the school believe that the coach is there as I was in my situation to fix the teachers The coach may as well pack her bags or his bags and go home Because there will never be a relationship of trust ever the coach in principle need to work closely together to build the introductory message and The introductory message is how does the role of coaching support what we're striving to do in this school And then who is this person in that role? So we work with principles on shaping that message so that it comes from a positive approach so that it comes from the approach of continuous improvement and so that the focus is always on Student achievement and not necessarily on fixing teaching practices even though we are going to refine teaching as we do this So I want you to hear that part the second thing that's really crucial in working with principles and helping them be strong advocates for coaching and strong supporters of coaches is How often and how principles in coaches communicate? We think it's very bless you important for principles in coaches to communicate Frequently Minimally once a week in a sit-down not our fly-through-the-haul way conversation with an agenda and a focus and That within that conversation There are strict rules and guidelines about confidentiality and what's permissible to be discussed and what's not permissible to be discussed We have to often help coaches and principles understand that