Savanna Flakes - ON THE COVER
She is an Educator and International Educational Consultant, a Published Author and Keynote Speaker. She has received numerous awards for her outstanding contribution to the field of education. She is the C.E.O. of Inclusion for a Better Future - Savanna Flakes, welcome to Empowering Lives.
Savanna Flakes, Ed.S Oh, thank you so much. It is exciting to be a part of such an important work that we do as women entrepreneurs. So thank you.
I am so honored to have you. When I read about all of the work that you are doing and trying to do your introduction, I said it would take 30 minutes just to introduce you. (Laughing) You are doing some amazing work. So let’s start from the beginning. What made you choose the field of education? I was in college, and one of my professors did a lot of work in
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the surrounding school area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She’d always come back, and she would say, “Everything that we are learning, everything that we are starting, really dig in, in terms of the research around how we learn, how we work together, and the psychology of the mind. It really all fits together when you are working with people. The type of people I work with are some of the most important people, and we are shaping their minds. They are our children, our students.” And she’d always come (to the school) with these inspirational stories of how she would work with another teacher. The teacher would do something amazing, and the students would not only love the teacher, but they would go on
to do great things. She would come and share all of these inspirational stories. I said, “Wait a minute; I want to know more about these inspirational stories. I want to know more about what these amazing teachers are doing.” She invited me to come along. I went to the school and I walked into that school, and I instantly fell in love with the art and science of teaching. I fell in love with how the students created concepts of this information; and how they are going to use it as contributors to our society. It was one of those moments where I questioned, what have I been doing the last three years of my college career? Why have I not been able to sit alongside our kids that we are talking about in this research? We
