No more tripping over shoes. No more charging cords everywhere or cramped desk space or just stuff stacked on top of stuff everywhere. Our Renault fixed all of that and I'll give you a tour today. Hey everybody, it's Robin with Creativity RV and some eagle eyed viewers noticed that we had a different background in our last two videos. No, I didn't go and get another RV that would be number four. If you're new to my channel, I had a 25 foot B plus van to start out with on the road and then I had a 25 foot class C and last year I moved to a fifth wheel. I have a grand design solitude 310 GK. It's great. I plan to keep it for a long time, but if you watched last week's video, you know that Doug, my boyfriend, moved in and is also full-time and we found that the space just didn't work great for us. We came to a long-term visitor area out here in the desert to camp next to some friends for a few months during COVID and when we got here, we pulled into our spot and saw that we actually had something happen in the RV that needed a major repair. That's how all of this started. We're lucky because we are camping next to Eric from the channel Wonderboom who did my desk last year and we asked him to help us fix this problem, but then we started thinking, you know, we were here for a few months. We knew Eric, we had a friend here who was an electrician and another friend that knows how to sew. So we really made a list of everything in here that wasn't working great, but let me first tell you about the things that needed to be repaired. A couple of weeks before we hit the road to come down here to the Arizona California area, a friend of mine sent me a video by Liz Amazing who has the same exact RV that I have and their island fell. Now this is a huge island in the middle of the kitchen. It was the reason that I wanted to get this rig, but it's a big, heavy countertop and the manufacturer only secured it with two screws. We found out that those islands can collapse and fall and we thought, you know, when we get down to the LTVA, we should really ask Eric to help us support that a little bit more. We drove for like three days and once we got here, Doug and I plopped down into the chairs over here and Doug looked over at the island and says, does that look weird to you? Sure enough, half of our island collapsed down onto itself. So all the cabinets and the countertop collapsed over the base. It was completely uneven and we had to actually get a block of wood to support it until Eric could come over here and fix it. And here are some pictures of him doing that. He just took out some of the baseboards under the cabinet and then supported it with some wood. By the way, Wonderboom, the channel, after this video, it was putting out a video showing how he did everything in here that he built out. It's really fun to make a list of everything that bothers you inside of your rig and then find a way to fix it.  Like I said, Doug and I are both in here working full-time and we needed two good workspaces. Here in the corner, we had this lovely couch, but nobody ever used it and nobody ever slept on the pull-out bed. And in the place of our couch, Eric made this amazing desk. Now, this is called Shishugibon, this finish, where you actually burn the wood and it gives you this amazing contrast actually in the grain of the wood itself. Now, we didn't go as deep on the Shishugibon as you would see traditionally because we wanted it to be even for us to ride on and have it be a good work surface. On the back of the desk, we have what we call the book Corral. I have a lot of actual books and it takes a lot of room to store them. So, what we did is we built this little Corral that is secured into the wall and it holds all of the books so they can stay here and we don't have to find a place to store them when we're about to travel. Another thing we wanted to fix are these big cabinets here above the new desk. I don't know why RV manufacturers make these giant cabinets that have all this vertical space that you can't use. So, Eric put in a quick shelf and we were able to put bins in here that I can actually reach and get stuff down.  We can never find the cord we were looking for no matter how many ways we tried to organize it. But luckily, we were traveling with our friend Bob who's an electrician and he put these pucks in three places right here and one on each side of the desk. The great thing about this is that it closes. So, we can keep the dust out of it but when we want to use it, it's got a charging platform for your phone so you just set it on there. So, we can charge a number of things in here without any cords showing. Up in this cabinet is Doug's PlayStation. Before we had this Renault, his PlayStation was always sitting down here and the cords were going over here and we had cords for our fire stick and all kinds of stuff. Our TV is down here and it turns out that there's this section of the wall back here that hides some cords that the manufacturer put in. So, you can't tell now but we popped that off and ran the cords down from Doug's PlayStation right down through this channel into the TV so we never see cords again. After Eric finished the kitchen island repair, we thought about what else we wanted to have done here and we decided that we needed more counter space. So, just like in my old desk, we created a pop-up at the end so we have more counter space and on the other side, I had a burky that was put into a planter so it kept it off of the ground. We wanted to have it permanently installed in the air and so we figured out this great way to put it on the wall and I decided to secure mine with a set of corsets. Our fifth wheel came with a couple of cubbies under the stairs for shoes but like a lot of you, we put our shoes here in the entryway and we were always tripping over them. So, in the front of our nook right here, we actually have shoe storage but that's not it. Well, look at this. We have these massive drawers on both sides that hold things like big pots. You might remember when I first got the rig, I had a traditional RV table. Last year Eric ripped that out and made me a custom desk which was great but it wasn't working for both of us so we created this little nook and our friend Terry made us these amazing cushions so it turned it into a nice little nook where we can have a meal or work or play a game or do a puzzle. Speaking of which, this is another hidden storage compartment. Right here, Eric built us a custom area where we could store some of my paper and also our puzzle keeper which is huge and we never had a good place to put it so when we're not doing a puzzle, we can put it right in here. We also have another Shisugibon table here and it moves around because we put it on little coasters on top of carpet which works great and back there you can see that the big boy has his own little bed. He loves this nook. He lives in this nook. I'm psyched to tell you guys about the next one. Right here next to the door we have this dumb area that held I guess letters or tiny knickknacks that the manufacturer put in. We're going down the road. We're not going to put anything in there it would just fall out so what we did is we knocked out a shelf and in its place we put some fruit and vegetable storage. The big boy by the way eats my produce. He'll eat bell peppers down to the core so this is the way to keep him away from the produce and not have it on the counter. The next thing you'll notice is that we completely painted in here. We changed it from that awful brown color that they always do in RVs to this nice bright white with a black accent and it makes it so much bigger in here. Now painting an RV is a lot of work. It took a long time but it's more us it's more modern and it got rid of all the dark colors and the glitter that they had in here before. The next thing is the windows. If you look at the tour that I did last year when I first bought this rig which I will link above right now you'll see that these giant windows which is the best part of a grand design were covered by these weird brown vertical window coverings that blocked out about 30% of the light and I found that I actually really love this black frame. It makes me think of a submarine and I wanted to see that but to get that done we actually had to cut the window valences that were up there and resecure them to the wall. Now if anybody else wants to do this I forewarn you once we took the window coverings off we were shocked because these windows on these walls were not even. They were like punched into the wall at these weird angles so when we hung these window boxes at the top back up if the box was even then the blind came down uneven. Another cool thing we did is we put some dry erase paint in a couple of places and these are actually lyrics to a song that Doug and I wrote the other day we thought we were hysterical. This is the bathroom door. More dry erase this is where we keep our to-do lists. Next to the bathroom we also added a little compartment that holds the dry erase pens and the little stick pens for our new travel map that we're using to map out where we want to go across the country. Hey who's this good-looking kid? This is Doug from college on an award that he got last year when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for soccer. We found out that he had been nominated every year since he graduated. How many years ago? Too many. Too many. He won the award last year in Wisconsin so we flew out for him to get it. We also painted the bathroom. It makes such a big difference especially with the skylight. It's so much brighter in here. Everybody out there knows that the lighting inside of these bathrooms is terrible. I actually found these little detachable reading lights that stick onto a magnet so I use them as a vanity light they turn and they're great for putting on makeup or doing your hair. If you do that stuff still and it's great.  This guy just stares at you. No. Once there were two of us in here we realized we had too many caps and so I got this great rack off of Amazon. We put it here above the door. It holds our caps just great and I also have one behind the door of the bedroom that holds our hoodies. In the bedroom we didn't do much except for just move some stuff around and add some white paint. It's made a huge difference. Behind the bedroom door we have hoodie storage. There are three of these racks and they work great because hoodies take up a ton of room in the closet and we found that if we just put these here we can just hang our hoodies and grab them when we needed them. Now this Renault took us two months. We thought it was only going to take us a couple of weeks. Eric did the desk and he did the nook and a couple of the extra things around the island but Doug and I painted this entire thing. We learned a lot about how painting in RV is different than painting a house. In a few weeks I'm going to put out a video showing you what worked and what did not work when we painted this rig. It's not perfect. There's still a few things that we need to touch up but we were just exhausted after a couple of months and we're really happy with it right now. We have extra paint so we're just going to do some touch ups as we go down the road. Overall we're so happy with this Renault. Really everything that we wanted to get done is done. It is the perfect space for us. We can pack up and travel so much faster. It's brighter. It's a great workspace. It's a great space to hang out and we're really glad that we did it. If you have any questions on this Renault please put them down below and I'll try and answer the most common ones in the next Sunday morning view queue where I answer viewer questions. I hope you're all doing great out there and staying healthy and happy. I'll see you next week. Until then, have happy travels and be free.


Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach, and I am currently on the WW or Weight Watcher's blue plan It's Friday. So, you know what that means. It's way in day today's a little bit different I'm coming at you from my office because it's actually Wednesday when I'm filming this video If you didn't know I'm actually headed out to Sandy Ago tomorrow Thursday or the day before you see this video So I had to weigh in quite early this week Which I debated on whether or not I wanted to do that because it's only been a few days since my last weigh-in But I wanted to be honest and make sure I put out a video about this week's weigh-in results Whether early or not. So when you see this video, I'm actually at SeaWorld with my best friend in San Diego I'm sure having an absolutely fantastic time So I want to remind you there will not be a meal prep video coming out on Monday because I'm actually in San Diego when I generally meal prep However, I will have another video posted on Monday for you with some tips and tricks when it comes to weight loss So definitely stay tuned for that if you're new subscribe turn on the bell next to it So you're notified whenever new videos are uploaded I would love to have you join my YouTube friends and family It's a pretty fun place to be around here Make sure you thumbs up this video if you enjoy these weekly weigh-ins on Friday and check out that description box down Below not only for my nutrition coaching website Definitely take advantage of macro and calorie calculation Knowledge is power my friends know where you should fall daily when it comes to calories in macros whether you're on WW or not, it's important to know exactly what you should be eating every single day I offer one-on-one coaching and group coaching so check that out down in the description box You're also going to find links and discount codes to all of my very favorite things And of course the link to head over and join me on Facebook I'd love to have you join that community as well I'm also linking my second channel my newer channel on weight loss and nutrition down below It would mean the world to me if you'd head over and subscribe to that channel as well You don't want to miss the important content that comes out over there So without further ado, let's jump into this week's WW workshop topic and of course my weigh-in Boy has it been a week It has been insane about the last three to four weeks for me Just like I mentioned in a previous video everything just kind of happened at once I've been so busy with real estate with YouTube with coaching Which I'm so grateful that I have all of these things in my life They mean so so much to me and I'm not complaining about being busy. It's just I've been really busy So I've been focused on not only getting things done But also making sure that I'm taking some time for myself and getting in my workouts I went and got a pedicure the other day just for a little bit of love and self-care I've also been making sure that my food has been on point now. Have I made mistakes? Absolutely. Have there been days that I've went over points and calories? Absolutely, but overall I've done pretty well when it comes to food and nutrition So as you know last week I maintained my weight. It was also my least favorite time of the month So that's to be expected in fact normally I gained so for me the maintain was a huge win But I had a good week this week or these last few days since it's been since my last weigh-in So I was actually kind of excited to step on the scale But nervous at the same time because it's only been a few days since my last weigh-in But before we get into my weight loss results, let's talk about this week's WW workshop topic It was interesting It was definitely a topic that I don't remember Weight Watchers ever talking about if you remember this Please let me know down in the comments But we talked all about plant-based foods and how to make a plant-based inspired menu Chances are we all know someone a friend or a family member That's hopped on the plant-based eating way of life now This is a great way of eating actually because you're really consuming whole real food There's very very minimally processed foods when it comes to a plant-based lifestyle So that's one thing that makes it actually really desirable. You're eating a diet rich in fruits vegetables and products that are derived from plants things like oat milk a plant-based diet actually can provide a large amount of protein and Definitely can help you hit your fiber goal plant-based diets are very very high in fiber Which is something that helps keep us full and satisfied and less likely to overeat So how about a fun challenge of actually having a plant-based meal at least once a week now? If you're enjoying plant-based meals or snacks definitely add a few more in every week But what about focusing on implementing at least one plant-based meal or snack each week? So I'm going to share with you today some ideas from WW on how to do just that one very popular Delicious plant-based food are chickpeas now chickpeas serve so many purposes Of course, they are the foundation of most hummuses But it's really fun to roast chickpeas with a little bit of olive oil and some seasoning and you have a crunchy delicious Fiber rich snack also What about just popping chickpeas onto your salad or rolling them up into a wrap for lunch chickpeas have so so many uses and again There are good source of protein and an excellent source of fiber and here's an interesting one What about swapping out oil or even unsweetened applesauce in a brownie recipe for black beans now? I have actually done this and there is no difference You do not taste the black beans especially if they're pulsed in a food processor or blended to kind of a Soft or paste or liquid form you don't taste them at all But they give you again a dose of protein and a high dose of fiber in a sweet treat So it kind of makes that brownie a little less indulgent still tastes delicious But a little less indulgent number three is lean on lentils It is fall coming into winter the cold season add some lentils to your favorite soup I love lentil soup. I love lentils in general So I actually am going to take full advantage of this suggestion Because lentils are packed again with protein and tons and tons of fiber and they can bulk up soups and meals I absolutely love tip number four and I've actually done this and that is to mix mushrooms in with ground beef Not only does it bulk up what you're making whether that's meatballs or hamburgers or meatloaf It bulks it up and makes it more so you kind of get a larger serving for zero extra smart points And it adds a little bit of moistness and richness to that meat dish as well. I have done this several times I have made a mushroom meatballs meatballs My husband had no idea that these meatballs did not have any meat in them And in fact I filmed a video on this and I will link it down below for you guys It's part of my vegetarian playlist. So definitely check that out It's a great way to get some vegetarian or plant-based recipe ideas, but he didn't know the difference. They were delicious I have also added mushrooms many many times to meatloaf again to bulk it up and I'm a volumeter I want as much food as I can get for my points and calories So if I can add zero point mushrooms into my meatloaf not affect the taste but get a bigger slice of meatloaf I'm in and number five is think of tofu as a blank canvas for a meal Now tofu has pretty much zero flavor. It takes on the flavor of whatever you cook it in or cook it with So you can use tofu as your protein add some marinade some seasonings and the tofu will just soak that up And that's the flavor that will become forward in your dish now. I will be honest I have tried tofu. I think once and was not a fan. Now am I opposed to trying it again? No, I just Struggled with the texture. So maybe the tofu I had wasn't cooked, right? Let me know down in the comments if you're a fan of tofu and if you are how do you cook it? Do you buy firm or soft tofu? How do you make tofu taste good and get rid of that mushy texture? I think that was my struggle with tofu, but it is packed full of protein and fiber So again, maybe have a tofu meal one night a week or a snack made from tofu to get that little extra dose of Plant-based richness. So those are some tips from WW on how to kind of incorporate more plant-based foods into your life Now I'm all for it. I actually feel like I eat a lot of plant-based foods I love beans and legumes again, not a fan of tofu, but I love plant-based protein I actually prefer that over whey protein I find that my body processes it a little bit better. You guys know I love live Well now live well is plant-based protein and I get this question almost every day Does it taste plant-based? Is it chalky? Does it have that weird taste and texture plant-based? No live? Well protein is far Superior than any other protein that I've ever had when it comes to taste and texture I get zero chalkiness zero plant-based flavor. You guys know. I love live well I mix it into oatmeal smoothies you name it So I'm gonna link it down below for you guys because it's a great way to get in some plant-based Protein into your life and of course there's a discount code as well So save a little money and definitely definitely check out live well for a great option for plant-based protein Another great plant-based protein option is organe. I'll link that down below as well nice clean ingredients in organe as well Now I find that it has a little more of that plant-based protein flavor, but not terrible. It's absolutely doable It's not completely zero plant-based flavor like live well, but it's very very mild and I do like organe as well I love their protein bars and of course I've used their protein powder many many times So I'll link that down below just a couple of plant-based options for you So I gave you guys kind of a rundown of how my week went busy busy busy But I'm so incredibly excited for my vacation. I definitely definitely need it now I want to let you guys know as well that I have decided not to vlog my trip to San Diego I really just want to enjoy my time with my best friend and just savor all of the memories that we're planning on creating However, I do plan on taking clips and little video segments and uploading those both on my Facebook group So if you're not on my Facebook group head over there join so you can see kind of how my trip goes And I'm also going to be posting a lot on my Instagram So if you aren't following me on Instagram definitely do that because that's where I post a lot of Daily things and day in the life things because it's easier than sometimes putting them into an entire video So definitely follow me over on Instagram and for my weigh-in this week, although it has only been let's see Saturday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Five days since I last weighed in when I stepped on the scale. I am down point eight So almost an entire pound in five days my time of the month just got over So that's even better that I'm able to lose almost an entire pound coming off of that and in only five days So it's off to a great second week in the month of October and it keeps me excited and motivated to do my best to stay on track On vacation lucky for me my best friend also follows a very healthy lifestyle So we'll be getting in a lot of activity Hiking and working out and we are staying in a hotel that has a kitchen So we are planning on grocery shopping and bringing in healthy foods and snacks Not only for budget purposes, but also to help us stay within our macros and calories while on vacation Now I will be strictly counting calories while I'm in San Diego It just allows me a little bit more freedom while I'm on vacation But I'm staying within my calorie goal and hitting my protein goal every day Which should lead to a weight loss when I get back So I'm pretty excited for next week's weigh-in post vacation. So again, that's how my week went I'm excited to take a little break. Make sure you comment down below and let me know how your week was Did you gain? Did you lose? Was it what you expected? And are you going to implement a plant-based meal or snack this next week? I know that I am so I'll make sure that I post that over on Instagram and also on my Facebook group So you can see just how I implemented a little bit of plant-based lifestyle into my week Thank you guys again so so much for watching Make sure that you are subscribed and your bell notification is turned on so you don't miss a single video You don't want to miss out also give this video a thumbs up if you enjoy these weekly weigh-ins and check out that description box for links for the protein powders and also for a few vegetarian recipes Take advantage of those recipes that are already figured out points wise so that you can recreate those and introduce a little bit Of plant-based into your life as well. So thank you guys again so so much for watching Check out my nutrition coaching website head over join me on Facebook and Instagram and I'll see you guys all in tomorrow's grocery haul I have a fun one coming your way. Have a great day guys. Bye


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Welcome to this webinar, which is offered by the European School Education Platform, the European Commission's Platform for School Education in Europe. My name is Maria Elena and I will be your host for today. Just some practical information before we officially start. This webinar will be recorded and the recording will be used for dissemination purposes and you will be able to find it online on our YouTube channel. So regarding the topic, this webinar about teacher mentorship will focus on the Erasmus Plus project repeat and challenges of sustaining education through the pandemic and how we can apply it in mentoring and co-coaching methods. But now I would like to give the floor to our guest speaker, Professor Rachel Lofthaus, whose expertise on the field of professional learning will give us more insight to the topic. Rachel, we would like to hear from you now. Thank you so much, Maria Elena. Thank you for joining me. It's really very nice to be here. I'm going to share with you a set of slides and I'm going to talk to you about a project as described by Maria Elena that was funded by Erasmus, but beyond the project to think about how what we're learning is applicable to mentoring and I'm really keen to answer any questions if we have time at the end, but also just to see any thoughts, responses that you want to share in the chat. Now, as always in this type of event, it is very difficult for a presenter to know what your prior experiences, prior understanding knowledge is and indeed what exactly your roles are in education. So please listen and engage with an understanding that I'm afraid I don't know you very well, not like I was teaching you over the course of a year. I hope there is something here that's relevant to you and if there's anything that you want to pick up and discuss with me individually at a later stage, then you'll be very welcome to get in touch. So I am Professor Rachel Lofthaus. I'm a professor of teacher education and I work at Leeds Beckett University in the north of England. I've been there for about five years and I joined as a professor having had about 17 years in another university where my main focus was training teachers and supporting their mentors, the people who were working with them in school when they went into placement, but also in developing understandings of both mentoring and coaching and teacher learning through a research career. So I've undertaken a variety of research projects. The outline for this session is first of all just to give you a single slide overview of mentoring and coaching and that will help you to, if you like, locate your own work or your own interest and understandings on this particular spectrum. Then I'm going to refer to the particular Erasmus project from which I'm drawing much of the source of this information and the focus from that Erasmus project that is relevant here are the narratives and co-coaching approaches and will make the link to mentoring as we go through. The slides will come quite quickly. I'll talk through them, but hopefully if there's anything that you want to re-watch, you can do that at a later stage and hopefully you'll start to share thoughts in the chat if you choose to. I am aware that for many of you, you'll have been working all day. It's the end of the day and therefore you may just choose to sit and listen and think rather than spend too much time adding information to the chat. So coaching and mentoring. Now we do know that these two terms are relatively common in education settings but that they mean different things in different places. So all I'm doing here is expressing a basic distinction between mentoring and coaching which is applicable in my context and then you can decide whether you see it as applicable in yours. So in the English context, when we talk about mentoring, we usually talk about supporting an individual who is relatively new and they may be new into an organisation, newly employed in an organisation or on a training placement in an organisation or they may be new into a new role. So perhaps they've become a head of department or a subject leader or a head of pastoral or whatever their new role is. So part of the point of mentoring is often to help support the process of induction. In other words, enabling somebody to make sense of the context they're in and the job they are being asked to do and the mentor is often somebody who is embedded in that context and who has a really good understanding of the role that the new person is developing and so they offer support and guidance and they help somebody to make sense of the expectations and the learning that they will need to engage with as they undertake their new role. Sometimes there is an element of what we call gatekeeping and what that means is that a mentor might be responsible for judging the extent to which somebody is developing success in that role progressing in that role. They may even be doing that quite formally part of a reporting system whereby somebody is going to gain a professional qualification or be passed through an induction period successfully. Mentoring takes many different forms but how might it be different to coaching? So if we talk about coaching again I'm drawing much on my own context and understanding. We're often thinking about something which is more to do with the development of somebody over time as opposed to enabling somebody to be successful in a new job. Development over time might take longer might take less time but we're focusing on a particular area for development and the development is often in an area that the coachee, the person being coached is wanting to gain more progressive. A coach acts to facilitate that development but they do it in a certain set of ways and we'll explore those today. And the coaching is more about self-determination than it is about gatekeeping. The key thing here being that mentoring is often about making sure somebody is adequately prepared for and able to do a particular job well. Coaching allows for a space for the individual to be more unique and to flourish and to think more in a self-determining fashion so making more decisions for themselves. Now we are going to explore co-coaching in the context of mentoring and I'll come round to explaining what the relationship is there as we go along. So I said that I was going to introduce the source of some of this webinar content and here is the source. We are at the very near end of a two-year Erasmus Plus project which our university Leedsbecket is leading and which has partners in Slovenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Scotland as well as us in England and Hungary. And the project is funded by the EU through the Erasmus scheme and it was set up in response to the challenges that the pandemic brought to education. So what were those challenges? The challenges were related to an urgent need to think about how we as educators, whether we were a teacher in a school or a university, whether we were a leader or perhaps even now that we were a home educator, perhaps as a parent, we were interested in how the pandemic created challenges for those of us who were trying to sustain education. And we acknowledged that a number of challenges emerged and we acknowledged that a number of changes had to occur and that many of them had to occur very quickly. What we're interested in in this project is how both the changes themselves but also the thinking related to those challenges can help us to reimagine a positive direction for education. There are two key strands of the project and one was quite realistically the emergence of the digital platforms and the digital interactions that we were tending to become more reliant on as educators, but also the fact that in this period of turbulence and transition we needed to think about how teachers and school leaders were learning to do their job in a different way and what difference that might make for the future. So the slide here says that part of the project has a focus on the narratives that emerged from the pandemic, what people told of their experiences the stories if you like of the pandemic and also the role of co-coaching as a way of engaging thoughtfully and opening up dialogue in relation to the future of education. Hopefully those two things will come clear in this presentation. So we know that the pandemic created challenges. It created dilemmas. We're aware of those and we wanted to know more of those. We were also interested in how changes in the way that schooling could be organised and offered and the changing relationships between home and school, parents and teachers and other individuals who would normally have been thinking in a organised fashion around supporting well-being were suddenly put into a place where everything was new and different. So we were interested in how we learned to work differently, professionally. And what we're hoping is that we've learned something that is of value way beyond the current pandemic and has implications and value in all other sorts of challenges that education is in the midst of. So including, for example, refugee crises, climate change, threats to the infrastructure, the resources, and also, of course, the opportunities that emerge as community, society, innovation continues to move on. Opportunities can create challenges because they make us think differently. So there were a series of project objectives. Don't need to worry too much about them, but they were related to increasing our ability and our confidence to work well, going into this new education world. So this is where we begin to find a link with the narratives and the coaching. Essentially, in this project, we were inviting people to look back. What were they experiencing during the pandemic? How had their teaching realities changed? And how had they had to react? And we were then encouraging them to look forward. So using their reflections on the past or the current situation and thinking about what lessons am I in my organisation or my learners learning that can help us into the future, that can make sense of a future direction for education. Now, just pause for a minute. If you're a mentor and you are mentoring somebody who is new as a teacher, who has a new responsibility perhaps as a leader, who needs some additional support, you are working with somebody who already has a back story. They already have experiences that are relevant. And so the pandemic is just one example of something that creates an opportunity for a starting point for learning. If you're a mentor, there are many starting points for learning. Some of them are disruptive. Some of them are difficult. Some of them can be planned for, but they all create stories. And that's what we're going to focus on for a few minutes. Okay. So in our Erasmus project, we started by interviewing teachers in all of our partner countries, so eight countries, nine countries across Europe. We used these interviews to write stories or narratives. These are not fictional. They are based in the interviews, but they are, they are synthesised as a narrative. And then we had a collection of narratives from teachers, student teachers, leaders, parents who'd become teachers, etc. People who were dealing with the realities of the pandemic. And in these narratives, after we had gathered them all together and started to read them carefully, we realised that the narratives were not just looking back at the realities of the pandemic, but they also told us something about how individuals had responded to the pandemic in their role. So class teacher, whose class is now always learning at home, for example. A school leader who instead of managing a timetable and supporting children in a school and supporting staff in a school is now having to be concerned with the well-being and learning of children scattered across the community, hidden behind doors in lockdown. They're thinking that responsibility, their concerns changed because the reality changed, but they couldn't sit still. They all had to respond. I had to respond. I'm a teacher. I have a cohort of students. We were halfway through the year. We were only meeting occasionally, but we were meeting in person for a whole weekend and everything was disrupted. We knew we wouldn't be able to continue. So we did what everybody else did. We responded by taking stock, taking a bit of a break because I could do that online. So we responded. And then in that process of dealing with the realities, making decisions about how to respond, making plans or having to respond really quickly, what that was doing was creating a space in which we were reflecting. And in addition to that, to some extent, we were looking to reimagine. And I'll explain what I mean by that. Here's an example of a narrative from a teacher. Now, as I've said, what we were able to do was we looked at the narratives and we started to see comments in the narratives, which related to the realities of the pandemic, how educators had responded, how that had created opportunities for reflection and what that might be leading to in terms of reimagining. So here's one. There were lots of ups and downs during COVID. And I've put the ups and downs in red because that's an example of the reality. Lots of ups and downs during COVID and remote teaching because there was so much pressure. Children were stuck at home. The classes were done online. This is all the reality. But sometimes with the regular schedules and content, but teachers still somehow had to carry things out normally, the usual assessments and be prepared for evaluation. So this teacher, first, I attended an eight-week course on well-being to make sure I could keep up with the pressure and take care of my well-being in school and outside of it. That's in blue. That's a response. What did I do? I took a course on well-being. Secondly, it was all very much about being open and talking to your colleagues. So we've passed that as a reflection, a space in which the colleagues were thinking together by being open with each other and talking to each other about what they were going to do next. You have to be open. You have to be, otherwise it is, you have to be very open. You have to feel and what is going on. So some of these narratives are close to the text of interviews. And the interviews are in a variety of languages and we've tried to translate them. But that notion there that this teacher is recognizing that this is an emotional experience as well. You have to feel this. You can't just blank it out. And then this teacher carried on. I decided to work out a strategy with me participating actively in the matters of well-being and communicating about it, especially when I saw some colleagues not adapting to the situation and changes. So that thinking about herself differently, working out a strategy for participating actively in matters of well-being. She's reimagining what it is to be a teacher. And because of this it started to do more work and it created more problems with well-being consequently. So there's a whole host of complications here. But it's an example of a narrative emerging from the pandemic. Now just for a minute forget about the pandemic and think about being a new teacher and meet Ruba. This is Ruba. And Ruba has a story to tell as well about being a new teacher. And if you asked Ruba to draw a chart of how she felt in the first four months when she was a new teacher this might be her chart. She started off feeling not so happy she ended up feeling happier. This is a good outcome but along the way Ruba's feelings went up and down. Some days were good some days were better some classes were difficult some things were challenging some days she felt like she'd made real progress. Hopefully Ruba is working with a mentor. And Ruba's experience could be described as a series of narratives of stories of her experience. In these stories there are some settings so let's imagine Ruba is a maths teacher she's teaching mathematics in a high school she's got children from age 12 to age 17 some of the maths she's teaching she feels very confident about some of it less so she's got children of different mathematical proficiency children who like maths children who don't like maths there is a setting that Ruba's stories are set in and it is very different. Ruba used to be an estate agent let's imagine Ruba was an estate agent working with customers to sell houses working to try and encourage purchases but also to help the people who were selling their house she chose to leave estate agency to become a teacher so it's a very different setting for her and she's retelling her story from those settings she's meeting lots of different people the characters in this story of Ruba's first four months as a teacher are very different from the characters that she met as an estate agent and the dilemmas that she experiences are different the challenges the things she has to make sense of the things she has to do so it's inevitable that Ruba's experiences are a bit up and down. What kind of things might Ruba have said about this period of time her first four months as a teacher well how about these things I started at a low point remember the graph started low down I was nervous and I found some unsolicited comments from my colleagues undermined my confidence that's quite revealing isn't it that some of the people she was working with maybe made comments that made her feel less confident as a teacher rather than more confident you know the sort of comment the sort of comment like I don't know why you're having trouble with that class they always work for me or well you'll just have to go away and plan those lessons better if those lessons aren't working you'll have to work harder there's a whole host of possible comments what else might she be saying about her story of her first four months the first few weeks left me exhausted some classes were unpredictable but I did start to build a relationship with others another one I found returning after the mid-term break a turning point the students seemed reassured she turned up for them again they seemed relieved and also the subjects she was teaching were more in her comfort zone so the topic areas of maths she had more confidence with I was so relieved at the end of the term when the students test scores showed they were making good progress a good end point in her story she had been reasonably successful even though she was brand new teaching the children maths and many of them showed progress in their tests let's just think about those narratives lots of narratives emerging from that and think about realities, responses reflection re-imaginings so that phrase some classes were unpredictable some children seemed to find it hard to settle this is her narrative they sought attention and were often disruptive if you're a teacher you've probably experienced that at first I thought it must be that they struggled with the maths I used more differentiation and gave more explanations but this didn't seem to help I then asked colleagues to share their experiences with the children this revealed interesting patterns and gave me insights I didn't have I decided to focus on how to create a classroom where they felt safe this is not easy still not easy I realised I needed to learn more and stop feeling that I was failing what did she do I kept notes focused on what I noticed in lessons and used these in conversation with my mentor we her mentor and her agreed to start reading a book called When Adults Change Everything Changes it's a book by an author called Paul Dix it's about relationships in schools I realised I can bring some of my previous life and work skills and personality into building relationships with children I am not just a teacher of maths I am a significant adult in their lives so the reality for Ruba was that some of her classes were quite challenging she tried things she responded to that she created more opportunities to reflect and think it through you could say to slow down to stop panicking to stop blaming herself she started to notice things she brought the things she noticed into a conversation with her mentor between them they agreed that they could do with learning more and they chose something to read that they could see might be relevant and then in those conversations through that reading and through gaining experience started to think differently about herself as a teacher she reimagined herself as a teacher and this last line I'm not just a teacher of maths I am a significant adult in their lives is a really important thing for a new teacher to start to imagine because it changes who they are in relation to the children that they teach okay imagine for a minute your own experiences just take I'm going to give you two minutes of quiet I'll just stop talking what kind of narratives do you have from your own teaching or what kind of narratives get discussed with you if you are mentoring somebody what are the challenges the realities that occur in teaching how do you or your mentee respond to those is there a space an opportunity for reflection and is there any pause for reimagining give you a couple of minutes to reflect and then we'll move on to co-coaching okay so the key thing here is that when we are mentoring somebody it is really critical to see beyond just what they do but to understand how they experience their journey as a new teacher or as a new leader what they find interesting challenging how they respond to that is the way they respond to it similar or different to the way you would respond to it are they responding to something quickly, immediately impulsively or are they taking time to reflect to make different decisions to understand a situation better and as they are learning are they doing more than just learning how to cope with the situation or learning how to be ready for tomorrow are they also developing insights into what it is to be a teacher what the future might look like for them as they move into their career in teaching mentoring is a really rich activity it is about getting to know another person helping them make the very best of the talents they have helping them to hone those talents to the situations they find themselves in now because there are challenges now but also helping them to think forward to a future where they will be happy and successful in their future roles in England like many other places but in England particularly at the moment we have a very serious problem of teacher retention I could quote a statistic it may be not quite accurate but about half of our new teachers stay only 5 years or less in teaching so all that effort to train to gain qualifications to get a job to be successful in those first jobs are too many teachers only for the short term because they choose to leave teaching we have the same situation with head teachers principles that point in somebody's career when they are experienced enough knowledgeable enough brave enough to be a head teacher is often then quite short period of time because usually within 3 to 5 years they leave not all of them too many probably not usually too many though if we as educators whether we are working with teachers in a university training teach whether we are supporting new teachers whether we are just trying to be good colleagues to help our colleagues thrive if we are concerned about the future of our profession then we need to address the fact that we are not in a lot of circumstances creating a profession that is sustainable we have a lot of gaps in our teaching force and yes we have burnout we have issues of well-being now nobody wants a mentor who can just apply a sticking plaster and say all you are injured here you are have a sticking plaster go back in just go back nothing has changed just go back what we want to do is create teachers who are themselves able to contribute to a profession which creates good learning conditions for children and young people and good professional conditions for themselves and mentoring and co-coaching can help but none of that works if we don't listen to the stories that teachers have or head teachers have of their working lives and we don't help to think what is the learning that is happening here that can sustain us into the future now that's where coaching can help so a little bit more about coaching it is usually a conversation between two people interpersonal between people sustained so sometimes it happens over the course of months or perhaps a year but if not then at least the conversation itself is really focused and what you are doing in coaching is your facilitating reflection which is helping decision making and action in the context of the teachers or the leaders who are coaching in the context of their own challenges what's that got to do with this project so in this project we collected narratives and then we were encouraging coaching conversations because we were saying hey you you there you there out in the profession do you have enough time to think do you work behind closed doors do you share your stories and dilemmas can you support others do you get support the idea with this is that we can gradually over time begin to change the working worlds of teachers through activities such as co-coaching what we suggest co-coaching is are conversations that are focused on learning but learning in this case of the teachers co-coaching is a situation in which we work together to support really good thinking so rather than rushing from one problem to the next we slow down a little bit to support good thinking we think about what's real in practice we ask really good questions to help somebody reflect think about how they're responding and begin to reimagine what's possible how else they might act what else they might change or if they can't act differently and change anything easily at least how they can understand things differently so it's creating a chance for growth and development and in our project we're saying that co-coaching is something where you might be the coach or you might like to be coached essentially it's about a managed conversation that brings those four things from this project into focus what are the realities how are you responding how is all of that helping you to reflect and how are you reimagining things and even if it's as simple as reimagining my job as a teacher when I walk in tomorrow so Ruba realised I'm not just a teacher of maths I'm a significant adult for these young people and if I think of myself as a significant adult that changes a little bit understand them and see them tomorrow in the next day and the next day what we found in our project is that co-coaching can sometimes start with the narrative so we encourage people to write or talk about their narrative as a starting point and then what a coach typically does is create a space for a conversation by asking questions now these are going to be a little bit small to read but the sorts of questions that we were developing in this project that we're encouraging people to practice using in this project are listed here and you can see that we've slightly categorised them so there's some questions about the realities to help somebody recall and explain and be clear about what's really going on what am I really experiencing who is in this situation what did I notice and why why does that matter to me those are the realities and reflections on those how did I feel did I feel frustrated did I feel satisfied did I feel vulnerable how did I feel all of those things reflecting on the realities and then the kind of okay I'm a teacher I have to do something so what am I doing what is my response how did I react how did you react if you're asking the question what difference did it make did it make it better did it make it worse did you see any changes in your classroom when you did it or if you were a leader when you changed your approach to a meeting did it change the outcomes of that meeting so the questions about the responses and reflections on the responses and then there's the reimagining so okay what are we beginning to understand what are we beginning to think what might this look like in the future so co-coaching has some features to it I won't try and read all of these but in the project we're developing a guide to co-coaching not published yet but it will be in the next few months and the guide to co-coaching will include the questions these sorts of features and an explanation of them a little bit more but in co-coaching we're not there to make a judgment about somebody we're there to be curious to ask them questions and we're not asking them questions because we want to put them on the spot but we want them to be able to experience experiences and also think ahead to future opportunities we're creating we hope a culture where people can voice their concerns so some of you in the chat I think are explaining some of the conditions in different countries for teachers some of the typical characteristics of your workplace actually finding a space where you voice that is an important part of being a professional it's not enough just to think it you have to share it because then you start to build an understanding with others about what is typical and also what is possible and what we're hoping we can do in co-coaching is create a space through the conversation where teachers leaders whether they are brand new or whether they are into their career well into their career where we say let's find some space for critical thinking let's look for some new perspectives let's help clarify some decisions so that our future actions will be shaped by them in our guide we're also going to be talking about affordances and constraints of co-coaching in other words what makes it work well but also what should you avoid so the middle column here things you should avoid in any coaching scenario a coach isn't there to give somebody all the answers they're not there to make judgments they shouldn't take the information from a conversation and report it unless there's a safeguarding issue they are having conversations confidentially but they're also not a therapist they're not a counsellor they're a fellow professional in the same field in education so they build trust over time they try and be authentic they try and develop the skill of asking good questions so the conversation is rich and the conversation is purposeful but they can't ask good questions if they don't listen and finally this is my last slide before I just share a website with you as we think about mentoring and coaching whether they are separated out or whether they are connected together as an activity and there is a way of connecting them together because a good mentor will know when they can have a coaching conversation and they'll also know when that coaching conversation won't be helpful because somebody really just needs to learn some basic skills because they're new in the job so let's compromise let's decide today we're thinking basic skills basic knowledge and then other times in a mentoring relationship might be more coaching and Chris has just written I see connections with intervision let me tell you that I learned the word intervision for the first time last week when I was a part of a different Erasmus project meeting in the Netherlands and the leaders are from Belgium and they use the term intervision for this kind of peer group support so that's quite interesting thank you Chris for reminding me of that the key thing here is that we want our teachers to be learners because if they're not learners they're going to be stale, they're going to be stagnant they're not going to change their practice when they need to they're not going to gain confidence they're not going to be able to resolve problems they're not going to be able to meet challenges they're also not just going to be the best teachers they can be but we can't expect the world from everybody all the time so we have to provide lots of support for learning mentoring and coaching are one of the ways that we can provide support why does mentoring and coaching make a difference well you could argue as Corthagin does and there's a very short quote here that teacher learning takes place at the connection between theory, practice and person mentoring and coaching is about putting the person in the centre and allowing that person through the support we give them through the conversations we have with them to think about theory, to think about their practice to develop experiments in their practice to try things out to test out things to come back and relate to another person how things are going in that interaction between the two people the mentor and the new teacher for example the coach and the school leader for example narratives can be really helpful because we're allowing through the narratives to explore the settings what's really going on in this context who are the people the characters that I'm engaging with in this role how do I feel as an individual character in this role and actually what are the real dilemmas not what is the ideal what is the real dilemma and what coaching can do and mentoring can do is create learning opportunities they can encourage problem solving and creativity because they give a little bit of space for different types of thinking they promote dialogue conversation between professionals and in that dialogue we can provoke things a little bit we can push things a bit we can challenge ourselves and we can support critical thinking teachers, school leaders need that intelligent critical thinking all the time they need the space to have it and we can also do what we say here which is scaffold frame and measure so scaffold provide the support to do the challenging work framing, give some boundaries give some context give some let's read this book together it might help, that's a good example of framing and over time when I say measure I don't mean quantify necessarily but we can make sense of change if you have a conversation with somebody over the course of their first year in teaching that conversation can be a place in which you really track and celebrate the changes and identify the other opportunities for development that emerge the very last slide here has some links it has two twitter accounts if you're on twitter there's myself and my research centre it has the website for the research centre but Marie Elena also has this to share and that what is it called? QR code is a QR code directly for our padlet and our padlet is an open access source of working papers blogs, podcasts and videos all about coaching and mentoring and you'll see how the padlet is organised against a series of categories I've slightly run over 15 minutes I was supposed to give to question answers but I'm very happy to stay here and answer any or listen to any comments for the last few minutes thank you very much thank you very much Rachel most of the comments were about bureaucracy and how bureaucratic procedures have some restraints maybe if you could comment something on that absolutely I can promise you that if you have experienced bureaucracy as a teacher or a leader or a student teacher you're not alone as the comments show it is absolutely typical of the system and that's usually because education systems are very much wrapped up with policy and policy directions and policy tends to create bureaucracy because we're always trying to invent new ways of doing things to create new expectations track progress contain at the work of teachers and schools what I can share is that I've been working on coaching and mentoring for about 20 years both from being a teacher to being a teacher educator to being a researcher that bureaucracy isn't going to disappear that doesn't stop conversations emerging within between colleagues just because something is bureaucratic doesn't mean we should avoid listening to people's stories it doesn't mean that we should dismiss their concerns or their ambitions or their optimism just because something is bureaucratic because in the end we cannot do our job as the best possible teachers and leaders for children and young people if we don't build relationships with our colleagues especially those who are new so that that's not to say this is easy it's not to say that bureaucracy can just be put to one side but it is to make the case that most professions are highly bureaucratic in this day and age we could say that they are performative we're always looking to demonstrate outcomes and we're always expected to improve outcomes and often the conditions that we work in are getting worse not better but we're expected to get better as teachers but at the heart of this what people most value what most people most value about being a teacher is the relationships that they have with children and young people and colleagues and members of the community so sometimes we have to find the spaces to work around the bureaucracy because the relationships are what fuel us they keep us going but also they become the place for learning I would also argue that there is a tension that if coaching becomes bureaucratic itself it stops being coaching so if we use coaching as a mechanism for example to keep data on a teacher to track their progress then it's not coaching because we've said coaching is about self-determination it's about growing a profession where we are confident enough and knowledgeable enough to be able to push back a little bit against some of the decisions that are made and actually say can we explore different ways around this and it does happen there are examples of schools even in England which is hugely bureaucratic where schools are pushing back and teachers are pushing back and where head teachers for example are realising that it doesn't matter how much they talk about the outcomes for children and young people if they don't put their staff first as a head teacher then their colleagues are going to burn out or they're going to fail to do the very best work so they have to create spaces for really high quality support and learning for their teachers I think that's it's worth knowing that we can argue it that way but yeah bureaucracy is endemic the key thing here as I say is try not to make coaching more bureaucratic don't bring bureaucracy into coaching don't make coaching part of the bureaucracy so it essentially this is about relationships it's about teachers as people and it's about the working lives of teachers and people and how we can best support them to be confident happy and successful and yes that will hopefully meet the ambitions of the bureaucrats as well but we can play our part as mentors or coaches thank you very much notice it's true and maybe if we can take one or two more minutes to answer a question we had in the chat do you know any schools that do co-coaching and how do they have an hour established in the weekly timetable if you could answer it varies a lot and very few schools have got this if you like completely sorted that in most cases they are still developing and emerging their work but I will give you an example last week I was in so I was in Netherlands for part of the week and I was in Belgium for the other part of the week and I was at a school in on the outskirts of Brussels now it is an international school it's a fee paying school so it's a bit different to many of the schools that we work in there is a school where they have developed over a number of years a program of coaching as part of the way in which teachers work with each other and support the development of practice and not just in terms of enabling their teachers to do their job well as defined by the senior leaders or the policy but enabling teachers to contribute to that policy development and to rethink so how do they do that well they have a team of people who are given an amount of time in their schedule to work as coaches they are teachers or their middle leaders but part of their workload is to be a coach not a huge amount they make sure that that team of people have time to work together so they also develop their skills as coaches and they then make the offer to colleagues in the school that they can gain if you have access to or support from the coaches and they enable some shifting of time which allows the coaches to work together now it will be different for everybody because it is different if you are a senior leader who is looking for a coaching compared to a teacher with a very heavy timetable but the other thing which that school have done is they have they've stripped away nearly all of the meetings that teachers and leaders would normally have had to attend and they've said you use your time professionally how you want to and that means that if you are working let's say you are part of the early years team rather than having to have a meeting every week of that team and that meeting has an agenda and the outcomes are fed up into the school system if that team want to use some time for coaching conversations they are at liberty to do that if they want to then have a meeting and discuss some of the things that have come out of the coaching conversations they can bring everybody together so part of it is without doubt about deciding what you have to let go and if you are a mentor of a new teacher the chances are you have already got some time allocated to that so the decision then as a mentor is what can I do with this time to best effect and of course there will be some things that the regulations say you have to do but then there'll be there'll be some space around the edges and the kind of conversation that you have to a large extent is up to you so if you choose to have a co-coaching type conversation in the space that you have already designated to you that's up to you I was in a meeting this morning so I'm doing a research project in Leeds where I live with teachers from a whole load of schools and we're using a different model of coaching called dilemma based coaching and at the beginning of the year the project is all about inclusion at the beginning of the year most of the teachers were saying the biggest problem we have is lack of time and then we've started to develop a dilemma based coaching approach with them and the conversations that they're having with each other have got them to the point that they appreciate there isn't much time but it's less that there is a lack of time and more that they need to choose how to use their time differently so for example they've also decided some of them they don't need as many formal meetings because they get more thinking done in coaching conversations it's more productive so it's how do you use your time that's true and if you have like one or two more minutes to answer the last question okay so we have a question from Emmanuel coaching should happen casually in a weekly meeting what teacher plan and self-evaluation okay there's quite a lot underneath that question so the first thing is what we're talking about here is relatively informal co-coaching where it is unlikely that the coach if you have a coach designated has lots of qualifications in coaching then they should be really have a great deal of expertise and if you've got real expertise in coaching then you need to make sure you make the best use of it so there's something there about deploying that carefully and strategically as a resource making those decisions what we're talking about here is a little bit less formal and it's about saying just as colleagues you can have these sorts of conversations about the difference that the one thing I would say and I probably haven't said it properly here is that coaching should be something that you you are happy to to be so if I, Mariela, if you said would you like to be coached Rachel I should be able to say not today but advice I shouldn't be forced into a situation where today you will be coached I have to have some discretion on the other hand as people begin to use co-coaching type conversations what we tend to find is that often it becomes what we would call a way of being so it changes most of your interactions with other people you tend to ask better questions of your colleagues you tend to give a little bit more time to let them think you tend to hear them better your listening skills have improved because you've understood the value of a coaching type approach so you can have a coaching way of being where this is how we relate to each other here but if you say to somebody we're going to designate some time to coaching someone should have the discretion to say I don't want to be coached or actually they should also have the discretion to say have you got some time to coach me so it should usually be by consent rather than every week you are expected to be or you're put with somebody and you have no choice I think there should be a degree of consent in it it should be more like a conversation from what I understand it's about how we are with each other great thank you Rachel very much and thank you everyone for participating in this webinar I will post again in the chat an evaluation form for this webinar so if you have 5 to 10 minutes to fill it in we would appreciate it very much thank you everyone and see you in a future webinar have a nice evening thank you


So over the weekend, the New York Times released a lot of information about Donald Trump's coveted tax returns. And we're gonna talk about all of that and some of the revelations from this report. But before we do that, I have to share this tweet from Donald Trump that he put out on April 13th of 2012 where he says, Barack Obama, who wants to raise all our taxes, only pays 20.5% on a $790,000 salary. Do as I say, not as I do. Yeah, as we all know now, that aged like milk. It might be the worst aged Trump tweet of all time. And there's a lot of them, but there's a lot in this story. And before we even get to the specific details, we're also going to address the impact that this may or may not have on the election. I think that this is important. I think the details here matter and it would be smart for Joe Biden and Democrats to hit him on these details. But I want people to understand that you can't let this distract you from the real crisis here that we're facing. COVID-19, 200,000 plus Americans have died. And I don't think that this scandal is larger than that. He bungled COVID-19. He's the one who stopped the Postal Service from distributing five masks to each family. He's the one who lied to us about the severity of COVID-19. So I think that it is important for everyone to not, you know, get bogged down by the details of this story. But it is still super important. And I think that there is a possibility that this can actually hurt him electorally. But by how much it's really difficult to gauge. But before we get to all of that, let's actually talk about what the New York Times reports. So to give you a broad overview, they describe, quote, a recurring pattern of ascent and decline. Where basically, you know, there's been times when he's been just straight up broke, but he also had times where he was relatively successful. He stumbled upon lucrative ventures such as being the co-owner of the Miss Universe pageant, as well as his time as a reality television show star when he hosted The Apprentice. But overall, he's in really bad shape. And it's infuriating to know that he's not paying his fair share of taxes. In fact, you're paying more than Donald Trump. I guarantee it. Yes, you watching this video. So they explain Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years, largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. As the president wages a reelection campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress. Bisset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed. Also hanging over him is a decade long audit battle with the internal revenue service over the legitimacy of a $72.9 million tax refund that he claimed and received after declaring huge losses. An adverse ruling could cost him more than $100 million. Now we just have to pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that in 10 of the 15 years he paid zero in taxes. How infuriating is that? You pay more than the president of the United States in taxes. Like I get that we've heard this over the weekend and like it's something that maybe we're desensitized to.  But we shouldn't allow ourselves to accept this as the norm and become desensitized to it because this really is outrageous. You may be working at a job where you get maybe a little bit over minimum wage. You don't make a living wage, you make less than $15 an hour and you are getting more money taken out of your check than the president. Like how frustrating is that to think about? Like to actually see it because we know that this is happening but when you see it laid out like this, it just, it is infuriating. Now what we have to acknowledge is that this isn't just like Trump bad. That's why he didn't do this. This is a systemic flaw within our system. Yes, Donald Trump is a fraud. Yes, he's a tax dodger. But our system is what allows people like Donald Trump to get away with things like this. I think that Bernie Sanders put out a phenomenal tweet where he says, yes, Trump's not alone. Federal income tax is paid by corporations a year after his tax plan was signed into law. $0 from Amazon, 0 from GM, 0 from Netflix, 0 from Chevron, FedEx, Eli Lilly, Starbucks. Dr. King was right. We have socialism for the rich, rugged capitalism for the rest. So it is important that we shame Donald Trump for this. In fact, I think that Joe Biden selling bumper stickers that say I paid more in taxes than Donald Trump. I think that that's clever, but I don't want people to get too, you know, bogged down by the Trump angle. I mean, sure, you have to shame him. This is an election, so strategically it makes sense to do that. But understand, you can't just not acknowledge the elephant in the room. And that is our late stage capitalist system that allows elites like Donald Trump to get away with this. Like he is taking advantage of a corrupt system that shifts the tax burden away from elites and onto working class Americans. So if you are going to try to convince your friends, you know, how outrageous this is and get them to not vote for Donald Trump or whatever, like you do have to point that out. This is an issue with our system. It's not just Donald Trump, even if yes, he is a greedy elites and an oligarch. But the way that he was able to get away with paying basically nothing in taxes is really interesting. So they explained Mr. Trump has written off as business expenses costs, including fuel and meals associated with his aircraft, used to shuttle him among his various homes and properties. Likewise, the cost of haircuts, including the more than $70,000 paid to style his hair during the apprentice. Together, nine Trump entities have written off at least $95,464 paid to a favorite hair and makeup artist of Ivanka Trump. In allowing business expenses to be deducted, the IRS requires that they may be ordinary and necessary, a loosely defined standard often interpreted generously by business owners. So basically, he wrote off everything. And what stood out to me the most is the $70,000, $70,000 plus dollars that he paid for his hair to a stylist.  Or I should correct myself. We need to get our money back because we're the ones who foot the bill for that hairstylist. Where do you even find someone who charges that much? Like people who are elites like Donald Trump, they live in a different universe than you and I. Like, can you imagine like if I tried to go somewhere in Portland and pay more than $1,000 for a haircut, I would struggle because I don't even know who charges that much. And I would refuse to pay more than probably like, I don't know, $50 for a really, really good haircut, including tip because I'm a tightwad.  I mean, I'm on the humanist report. This is technically a business. If I pay for a haircut, do I get to deduct that because I haven't been. I think that that's probably not something that would be deemed ordinary and necessary by the IRS, but he doesn't even care. Like he's shameless. He's writing off everything, you know, me going from mansion to mansion.  He's just shameless. But on top of that, his write-offs, they're not just ridiculous and shameless. They also, as we're going to find out from this next paragraph, wreak a fraud, abuse, corruption, and nepotism. Because he cited $747,622 that he deducted in quote-unquote consulting fees. And conspicuously enough, it looks like he paid his daughter Ivanka Trump for that. Quote, the consultants are not identified in the tax records, but evidence of his arrangement was gleaned by comparing the confidential tax records to the financial disclosures Ivanka Trump filed when she joined the White House staff in 2017. Ms. Trump reported receiving payments from a consulting company she co-owned totaling $747,622 that exactly matched consulting fees claimed as tax deductions by the Trump Organization for Hotel Projects in Vancouver and Hawaii. So he writes off hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting fees to his daughter, to his daughter. Doesn't say that, but when they connect the dots, they find out that the amount that he supposedly paid in consulting fees that he wants to write off went to Ivanka Trump. Do we really believe that she's consulting him? No. And when I hear about this, this really reminds me of the 2018 report from the New York Times when they actually extensively detailed the fraud that Trump's family committed. And you know, basically him and his father and his whole family actually, they committed this scheme to avoid paying taxes when he died and passed down that wealth by fraudulently hiding that money and moving it around. And we're seeing shades of that here.  He got his wealth because his dad left him a lot of money and he's trying to do the same thing, benefit Ivanka, or money that would otherwise go to the government. He's making sure it goes to his daughter. Maybe she gives it back to him. I don't know, but I don't care. That is nepotism and we're footing the bill for this rich oligarchy family. Now, it's more than just like the tax fraud. There is a huge angle to this story that people have to acknowledge and grapple with. There is extensive violations of the emoluments clause, conflicts of interest that amount to an impeachable offense. And I get it. We already went through the impeachment debacle as some will call it. He should have been impeached, but he wasn't. But I always contended that he needed to be impeached also because of his violations of the emoluments clause. And if you weren't on board before, then this should get you on board because it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Donald Trump is not operating in good faith on behalf of the United States knowing that all of these foreign governments are making him money. They argue against the backdrop, the records go much further toward revealing the actual and potential conflicts of interest created by Mr. Trump's refusal to divest himself of his business interests while in the White House. His properties have become bazaars for collecting money directly from lobbyists, foreign officials and others seeking face time, access or favor. The records for the first time put precise dollar figures on those transactions. At the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, a flood of new members starting in 2015 allowed him to pocket an additional $5 million a year from the business. In 2017, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association paid at least $397,602 to the Washington Hotel where the group held at least one event during its four-day world summit in defense of persecuted Christians. The Times was also able to take the fullest measure to date of the president's income from overseas where he holds ultimate sway over American diplomacy. When he took office, Mr. Trump said he would pursue no new foreign deals as president. Even so, his first two years in the White House, his revenue from abroad totaled $73 million. And while much of that money was from his golf properties in Scotland and Ireland, some came from licensing deals in countries with authoritarian leading leaders or thorny geopolitics. For example, $3 million from the Philippines, $2.3 million from India and $1 million from Turkey. He reported paying taxes in turn on a number of his overseas ventures. In 2017, the president's $750 contribution to the operations of the U.S. government was dwarfed by the $15,598 he or his companies paid in Panama. The $145,400 in India and $156,824 in the Philippines. So how are we supposed to believe that when he acts as a diplomat on behalf of the United States, he's not just doing things to benefit himself.  How are we not supposed to suggest that, you know, his loyalty lies with them? I get that we're kind of waiting into the same argument that they were making with regard to the Russiagate scandal, but this is actually something that we have that's tangible. He's paying more money to the Philippines. He has business dealings with these other countries. They're making money for his organization. He's personally profiting. And we're just supposed to sit back and accept this. I mean, this is what the emoluments clause is for. But yet, nothing. Not even really much noise about this aspect of this story, which I think is really important, if not the most important aspect of this story. Now, you have the details for the most part. This is kind of just a simplified view of the entire story. I'll link to it down below if you want to read the entire article. It is really, really long, but it's important. However, the question that I'm asking is, will any of this matter when it comes to the election? And I think that it has the potential to matter. But the problem is that Democrats oftentimes, they're just not good at driving narratives. What I saw on Twitter was a lot of people, mostly, you know, Donut, Sanctress, neoliberal Twitter, shaming him for being broke. That's tone deaf. You know, if you take this approach, then you are kind of ignoring the fact that a lot of Americans are broke, and they can kind of see that as, oh, we'll see, it's just these, you know, coastal elites shaming Donald Trump for being broke. But maybe because he's broke, he can identify with someone like me because I'm also broke. Like, that's not the way that you want to go about this. However, if they focus on the fact that, you know, elites like him pay little to no taxes and you have to foot the bill like you personally are paying more and losing money because people like him don't pay their fair share, that can resonate. Again, I want this to be a critique of the system and I don't think Democrats are savvy enough or even willing to do that because they don't want to change the system. So basically the only way I can see this actually landing for Democrats is if they focus on the corruption and the conflicts of interest. I think that Donald Trump was able to succeed because he was running against someone like Hillary Clinton who was so corrupt and we all knew that Trump had these corrupt business dealings and he was, you know, a fraudulent businessman with the Trump University and Trump organizations. But now he's in power, so it lands more like the attacks are different. So if Joe Biden tries to attack him for this, I think it could work. Although the problem is that Trump can just turn around and say, well look at Hunter Biden, look at the nepotism there with him working for, you know, a Ukrainian energy company when he had no experience and he was making all this money. He can easily turn this around. And what I fear is that if Trump turns this around, Republicans are a lot more disciplined in messaging and could quickly backfire for Democrats. So like it's frustrating because this really is a scandal. Like if this were 1985 or 1992, this would end someone's campaign. But because we live in the Trump era, I think that things like this won't necessarily land. But I think that what you have to focus on if we're being strategic and we just want to beat Donald Trump is COVID-19. 200,000 Americans died under Trump's watch. So I think that it is important that you bring this up and you hit him on this. But if Democrats are going to even attack the corruption angle, I mean, if we're not anticipating any action and impeachment trial in 2021, then I feel like it's all hopeless. Like it's just going to encourage people or influence people to think, well look, you said he's corrupt, but now you're not prosecuting him. And I would never expect Democrats to do this. If they were going to prosecute anyone, it would have been George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when Obama took office. So I think that the best thing that Democrats can do going forward is to focus on COVID-19 because this really is the thing that is impacting everyone right now. It's the number one issue and it's where he basically blew it. But with that being said, I don't want to give you this impression that this story isn't important because it really is important. In the Trump era, you really have to pick and choose your battles. And even though this is something that, you know, at the individual level, we can use to maybe drive outrage with our friends and family and get them to not vote for Trump or not support Trump, but they realize that it's really unfair that they're paying more than him. But if I see Democrats like trying to capitalize on this story, I just see them face planting and it's sad.  So I think that what they need to do is focus on COVID-19 and for us, we can use this to try to appeal to working-class people because it really is outrageous that, you know, Donald Trump is paying less in taxes than you're paying. How insane is that? You may work in McDonald's or in retail and the President of the United States paid way less than you. Like, that is outrageous. That is infuriating. It's infuriating. So, you know, when it comes to the question is, will any of this matter? I am leaning towards a could. That treats me so unfairly.


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It looks so realistic. The grass, the foliage, the trees, the shadows, the clouds, the sun. There's a little bit of distortion you saw there in the rock. Maybe they'll fix that by launch. This as I said is still in closed beta but this is a game that I'm sure many of you are playing. Tell me down there in the comments below if you are playing New World and I'll show you a few more clips about the action RPG system. This is from the tutorial. When you want to attack, press X to draw your weapon and then you can block with the right mouse button to avoid taking damage. Left click attacks and you can dodge with the left shift at the right time to get out of the way of any attack to take no damage and then you can do a heavy attack by holding the left mouse button to do extra damage but it takes longer before you attack. Here is more examples of its beautiful graphics and I'm curious how many of you are going to be playing. Wait for it. New World. I'd love to try this game out. 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Hello and welcome to the session. The given question says, evaluate integral 2x into tan inverse x square divided by 1 plus x raised to the power 4 into dx. Let's start with the solution. So we have to integrate 2x into tan inverse x square divided by 1 plus x raised to the power 4 into dx. Let us denote y at tan inverse x square. Now I know that derivative of tan inverse y with respect to y is equal to 1 divided by 1 plus y square. On differentiating both sides with respect to x, we have on the left hand side dy divided by dx and on the right hand side we have 1 divided by 1 plus x square whole square into derivative of x square with respect to x. And this is equal to 2x divided by 1 plus x raised to the power 4. Therefore dy is equal to 2x divided by 1 plus x raised to the power 4 into dx. Let us denote the given integral by 1. So 1 with the help of dy and y can further be written as integral 2x divided by 1 plus x raised to the power 4 into dx contributes to dy and tan inverse x square is y. So we have to find integral y into dy and this is equal to y square divided by 2 plus a constant c. Now let us substitute the value of y which is tan inverse x square. So here we have tan inverse x square whole square divided by 2 plus a constant. This is further equal to half tan inverse x square whole square plus a constant. Thus on evaluating the given integral we get the answer as half into tan inverse 2x whole square plus a constant. So this completes the session. Bye and take care.