As instructors and teachers, the most important, and rewarding part of our work is to recognize the vast potential within our students and to help them see it within themselves, and then support them in reaching that potential..

Looking towards the future with positive expectations is a powerful force on the present, as it affects present decisions, thoughts, and behaviors. By believing in a students potential success and examining how their current practices may affect their future, they might engage more in the dojo (or at school), and persevere towards a more ambitious goal, especially when the road to that goal gets difficult.

In other words, believing that one can accomplish a goal is vital to developing the will to do so.

“Looking towards the future with positive expectations is a powerful force on the present” ~ Dr. Dante Dixson

Every student deserves the chance and has the right to explore his or her potential.

The relationship between instructors, teachers and students is at the heart of teaching, and research shows again and again the tremendous effect, both short- and long-term, this relationship has on students.

Helping students to believe in themselves when perhaps no one else does, and working with them to cultivate hope where seemingly there is none, are two of the greatest gifts instructors can offer to our students.

You can be the person who turns things around for students and unshackles their learning path and their deeper understanding. It usually takes just one person, a person whom students will never forget. ??