We Schooled Hundreds of Teachers

imagine a Utopia you could attend that

could train you to be as successful as

you'd want in anything you can dream of

and on top of that having the ability to

give that gift to someone else well you

don't have to imagine because we found a

nonprofit school in Atlanta that can

make this dream a reality the kids sing

and dance in class are sorted into

houses like in Harry Potter achieve some

of the best results in America 94% of

the kids at the school are on

scholarship and to top it all off there

are flying dragons draus

I couldn't believe a place like this

actually existed so I sent Dan and

Darren there to experience it

firsthand when they arrived they met

with Ron the founder of this mystical

institution I'm from the country in

Eastern North Carolina my parents had

never been to college I was the first

one to go and I was at East Carolina

University and a teacher at a local

school passed away my mom twisted my arm

and I went in this school and started

teaching and I didn't really want to do

it and I didn't want to be there but I

just fell in love with the students and

the passion and the possibilities and

then after 5 years I saw a TV show that

showed schools in Harlem that have

violence and ocratic classrooms and I

had a feeling in my heart and I was like

I'm going to teach Up In Harlem and so I

went up there and it was really

challenging but basically I did the same

things there I did in North Carolina I

built relationships with students and

their parents I tried to make it fun I

ate lunch with the students and then I

made it really hard cuz I learned that

you can make it as hard as you want for

kids kids as long as you keep them

engaged and as long as they want to be

there and because Ron believed in

himself and taught the kids to believe

in themselves too in just a few years he

was able to completely transform the

lives of the students at the school it

was because of this that Ron won the

Disney teacher of the year award Ron

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Clark which led to a movie being made

about him called The Ron Clark Story

starring Matthew Perry but Ron had his

sight set on a much bigger goal which is

why he reached out to kill in the year

2000 I was fortunate to meet Ron Clark

we were both honored as Disney teachers

of the year and he said you and I should

start a school together one day starting

a school took a lot out of me and Kim

and our whole entire team we couldn't

get anybody to give donations they to

give a little bit here a little bit

there and in order to raise money to

fund the school Ron wrote a book called

The Essential 55 the book became a huge

success and was profiled on the Oprah

Winfrey show all the money from the book

went to buy an old factory in Atlanta

Georgia imagine a 100-year-old Factory

that had been abandoned and somehow we

just both looked at it and said this

could be something amazing so I said if

this is going to happen it's going to

take a lot of community members to give

what they can give so with the help of

3,000 community members Ron was able to

raise enough money to start the school

these kids are here because they're

special and these kids have got dreams

and we're going to help their dreams

come true and in 17 years the Ron Clark

Academy has grown from 60 to over 180

students hundreds more have passed

through the school and 90% are accepted

into college or Career Training but 100%

discovered their full potential yeah the

test scores are great but really we just

want to make great people who love

others and want to use their talents to

make a difference in the lives of the

people that they're around after meeting

with Ron Dan and Darren took a tour of

the

school the dragon breathes fire when you

shoot a three-point so Darren and I are

going to see who can do it

first but after wasting an hour trying

to make this happen they couldn't even

get the ball in the

hoop I'm more of a athlete than an

athlete they were then invited into

Ron's fifth grade math

class pencil's down so Quest S4 let's

see what we you know what's going on

there right so the answer to Z is just

going to be

two four someone said

two I'm more of a ml than an

athlete when I first got told about this

project about the school Darren kept on

pushing on about how much fun the kids

have here and I thought to myself you

know a school that's fun that's

impossible I remember school as just

being White Walls Friday for me being

the best day of the week cuz I could

just leave school yeah that's inverted I

think that the kids most depressing day

is Friday because they love being here

so so much most of the kids that go to

the school come from backgrounds or

environments that wouldn't Inspire the

best of them but they come here and they

are taught to believe in themselves and

that is the most powerful thing that Ron

is doing he's teaching these kids to go

for their dreams he's teaching them that

they are capable if they just try and I

want to tie this back to Jimmy when

Jimmy got started doing YouTube for 5

years nobody watched anything that he

was doing but Jimmy never quit he went

on day by day by day until he finally

figured it out and look where he is now

and the only thing that Jimmy had when

he started was a belief in himself just

like Zion who graduated from RCA in 2015

before RCA I didn't believe in the

education system I was a kid who was

deemed is like just a product of where

he came from and I grew up in this

single parent background and so I was

limited in what I could be so thinking

about what I dreamed of like I didn't

have many dreams for me it was just can

I just do something more can I get out

of this community what does that even

look like and so I have no idea what I

wanted to be because I didn't even know

what I could be and so I think coming to

RCA helped me find my passion helped me

find where I wanted to go gave me a

voice to use and taught me how to use it

and also who to use it for since

graduating from RCA Zion has gone on to

study education at Princeton and Harvard

and has a dream of becoming the

Secretary of Education in the United

States but Ron and Kim wanted to have

the same influence for millions of kids

all around the world so we said what if

we open our doors allow teachers to come

in sit and watch what we're doing and

take our methods and ideas back to their

schools we thought that would be

transformative and this method has

proven to be so successful that we

wanted to help even more teachers so

along with our partners that stand

together victra and CH we paid for 200

teachers from all around the country to

attend this event so the next morning

the hall quickly started to fill up with

all the teachers after their

registration they were put through an

intense crash course to learn this new

way to bring out the best in their

students St and help build

confidence it's been an amazing

experience to see different tools that I

can add to my tool kit as an educator to

make sure that I'm meeting the needs of

all my students the students here have

autonomy so they're able to be

themselves and that is something that I

love being able to take back where I put

my students in charge and I give them

kind of that role to take the autonomy

of their learning I'm excited to come to

school every single day because I know

there's going to be something different

and something new in store teachers

they're always supporting you so you

know they're going to have your back do

whatever you know task comes your way

one thing that I love is the

relationship between the teachers and

the parents the teachers are very

engaged and they want to make the

parents very aware what's going on every

day at school the kids get up and

they're they're motivated actually to

get the class and the teachers just find

different ways to teach that's the key

to it when you affect the life of a

child you do not only affect the life of

that child indirectly your impact will

also have an influence upon that child's

future your spouse everybody that one

day that child's life will have an

impact upon every teacher needs to

realize it could be in the millions of

lives that are indirectly affected by

ours if you believe in yourself if you

believe in somebody else that you're

close to build that person up give them

the confidence that they need to go out

there and chase their dreams and see

what they're truly able to accomplish

through this course at the RCA we have

equipped hundreds of teachers to

positively influence thousands of kids

at schools all across the country for

generations to come there's so many

inspirational stories that we found over

here but one of the ones that has

touched me the most is the story about

Ryan Marshall Ryan Marshall is one of

the most incredible individuals we've

ever had come through RCA talented

creative a music he was brilliant

unfortunately when he was in ninth grade

someone tried to steal his mother's car

and the person pulled a gun on his

mother and Ryan jumped in front of his

mother to protect her and he took the

bullet to the heart and he died in his

mom's arms we found his journal where he

told himself in his journal you have the

power to change the world use it each

and every day he put that on the wall to

remind us that we all have the power to

make an impact on the lives of others if

we live our life in the right way if we

seek upli our communities that's what

Ryan Marshall did that's the spirit he

had and that's why we have tried to

embody his Spirit here at RCA I think

that you do embody his spirit and about

believing in yourself and achieving

everything and changing the world we

also want to memor moriz him Victor and

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people Ryan Marshall made the ultimate

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dedication and Courage by funding a full

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Academy and we want to take it one step

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