For the past 20 years, Sprigeo Founder and CEO Joe Bruzzese has worked with schools both public and private to establish productive working relationships between parents, teacher and administrators. His background as a university professor, staff development consultant and parent education expert forms the ideal trio of experiences for the development of Sprigeo.com a web-based set of tools and resources for restoring the safe feeling that kids want to have during school and in the hours beyond the school day. Sprigeo's toolbox includes a web-based, database-driven reporting form for youth and parents to report safety incidents (bullying, harassment, fighting, drugs and alcohol, etc.). The Parents section of Sprigeo.com includes a media library designed to equip parents with information for navigating the middle and high school years.

Specialties: Joe’s background includes a Master’s degree in addition to his former tenure as teacher in the middle school grades. Joe brings years of educational theory and practical experience to his work with parents and schools as a parent education speaker and staff development consultant.

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#403: SPOTLIGHT: Joe Bruzzese
#403: SPOTLIGHT: Joe Bruzzese

Question for Joe:

   

There is an idea that we can learn from every single person on the planet.  But there are also deeply ingrained habits we have been trained in that “teachers” have a formal designation which might limit our scope for learning.  With that thought, does someone come to mind in the past five weeks that you wouldn’t consider a “formal” teacher at all but who you learned something special from… (perhaps even someone you aren’t even fond of) ?

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#356: The How of My Life
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#234: "How Are You?"

Some years ago a friend of mine from Denmark (then a recent arrival in the US) asked me, "Why do people ask, how are you, when they don't really want to know?" Ah ha! There was something I had been clearly missing in my day to day transaction. "Hello, how are you?" has become for many people, part of the standard greeting and is usually met with, "Good, fine, ok". Try answering the question with, "Exceptional, outstanding, excellent" and see what type of response you get? Back to my Danish friend. She went on to explain that most people in Denmark would never ask, "How are you?" because they don't want to know how you are doing, and if they did ask, they would wait and listen to the whole story behind why you felt a certain way. Insightful. 

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