hello my name is Christopher Gooden and
I'm the proud new principal the academies
of math and science is Camelback so I
just finished my twenty-fifth year and education you know
plenty enough you know me
when you interview at one of the first things that people ask
you is I talk to you about your experience
but I always say well I've
got 42 years of experience because pretty
much every year since I've been five years old I've been in the
school and so this is all I've ever wanted to do
I knew when I was
third grade I want to be an English teacher in fact you know I'm in
my office that the other picture that I drew in third grade
back when they had on chalkboard so I know
they
used to be these old black things that were called chalkboards
they were dark green and I drove
myself this
is all that I really ever wanted to do until
I think when I think about my
experience and my 25
deers eat and then even before that is a student
two words come to mind it
matters if it mattered when
I studied it
matter when I didn't it matter but I was prepared
and that's when it wasn't prepared
then moving into the teaching it matters when
teacher say hello when students come in the room it
matters when you take a second and talk
to a student in the hallway when
you go to a basketball game or a chess competition
or Drumline on the weekend
take to get to the administrator matters
that you're
speaking with all of your staff and all
that staff means that you know that there is no
such thing as levels and everyone is as
important as anyone else because we all were
together in so it definitely matters and
I can tell you this as a pair and I have three children it
matters it matters that
you talk to your teachers it matters
that you engage with your school that you
engage with your campus
that your kids see and hear
you doing things that they see in here
during the time that they spend here until
I talk to me when I think about my experience
again I like to say 42 years you
know this is all really ever done
about all that experience it matters