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Educator, speaker takes advice from Ellen DeGeneres, shares message with Seguin ISD Memory of Jack Lee honored at this year's Seguin ISD Opening Convocation By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera (Seguin) -- Almost three months ago, he was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. This week, Ricky Ramirez, an El Paso classroom teacher, was in the Seguin ISD inspiring all teachers and employees to embrace his message of "Reach Before You Teach." Bringing his "Real Talk" presentation to school districts like the Seguin ISD was actually inspired by Ellen, who after appearing on a segment of her show, was encouraged to take his message about developing real life relationships with students to all those who wanted to bring change to their classrooms. Ramirez, who shared his personal story with Seguin ISD employees during this year's annual convocation at Seguin High School, says
here he was the 2018 Teacher of the Year for his district and then a college prep program he worked for, AVID, was cut out of the school budget -- leaving him with no job. Inspired by what had happened, Ellen invited Ramirez onto the TV show giving him a chance at winning some money during the show's Million Dollar Day Holey Roller game. Although his appearance on her show landed him a $100,000 cash prize, he says it his experience in teaching that has and will always remain priceless. "The message is that relationships matter and yes, it is important to know what we teach but it's important to know who we teach and our teachers are on a mission to
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get to know the human being not just the students. We are here to know the human being and and that was our message was reach the kids before you teach them and when we build those relationships and when we build the kids up and we motivate them and inspire them, that's when learning outcomes improve. That's when test scores raise. That's when deeper learning occurs. That's when everyone wins when that happens and I can tell that #TeamSeguin is all on board with that," said Ramirez. Although he recalls homework assignments and other classroom instruction, it's filling in for their dad at a quincenera or attending a student's band concert that have allowed him to really connect with students -- positively impacting their future. See SISD Page 2
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