ASKING QUESTIONS, EXPLORING OPTIONS, CHANGING THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Ginger Noyes

Ginger Noyes is the Assistant Principal of Quest Early College High School in Humble ISD. She is a REEP Business Fellowship Program Candidate, Class of 2012, at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

School House

What Is All This Talk About Building Relationships?

A young man enters my office and begins to pace back and forth uttering profanity and flailing his hands about.  Back and forth he goes…ranting and occasionally sneaking a glance at me.  I know this drill as we have done it before and I wait.  When he is ready, he sits down, takes a deep breath, sighs, and as tension visibly leaves his body he slumps in his chair. I venture a smile at him and ask, “What’s going on?â€

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