Convocation Speaker: Dr. Andre Stewart

Dr. Stewart shares with Weldon City Schools the importance of focusing on students. He said we must build bridges as it relates to our student success.

He said that he was unapologetically himself. He stated we all should be unapologetically ourselves because we are enough and we will always be enough.

Back to the Basic with Dr. Andre Stewart

Dr. Andre Stewart shares that he is unapologetically himself. You do not have to apologize for being you because you are enough and you will always be enough. Dr. Stewart shares how to meet the needs of students by building bridges.

Show Transcript

David baseball coach before you and athletic director he also taught me line from North Carolina virtual public high school for four years and part-time for the GED program for Halifax Community College in 2013 under a person can be an administrative position at Weldon at the assistant principal in 2014 he became the principal of Weldon Middle School where he has enjoyed a successful Run in less than five and a half when do he was mad that welder Stephen Stills first couple of here for two consecutive years 2017 and 2018 welder Middle School also exceeded State Standards three consecutive years during his time frame and yeah your way of 2020 he became a operations officer for Warren County schools in September of 2021 he accepted the position of interim chief operation officer for Chapel Hill Carrboro committing to the top-ranked Public Schools in the state of North Carolina and name the 2022 the infamous had was dropped and he became Chapel hill-carrboro City Schools chief of operations he has been married to Chris for the past 24 years and they have the Sun and Rain through the 20 years old a senior at Elizabeth City State University and Eric 17 years do a senior in high school how to say thank you. The address Stuart good afternoon that's all play Sassy automated Chicken & BBQ Norwegian deck I am dr. Andres Stewart I am the chief of operations for Shopko Carrboro City Schools I bring you greetings from Chapel Hill North Carolina where I am just as crazy as I was when I was here and Welding with you for those of you I want a picture of me standing behind me 40 mm like this guy about four and a half seconds because I'm going to take this high off his jacket off and I'm going to start moving in a little bottle that right there is Doctor Seuss nothing without the suit looks like in some days I wake up and that's who I am and other days I wake up and I'm dressed are you going to get today we going to do something and hopefully you'll be ready okay I want you to know something unapologetically you'll get my themes for the district but you'll get a lot of things on my car a lot of different things. And that's one thing that I want you to get for me today and understand his apology with you because you are enough all right you are though you were though and you will always be all right. Y'all thought I was playing I can't stand still for 4 my mama and my grandma and them they had cures for that kind of stuff back and I think we can talk about that they called it child abuse now so many smiling faces break people your board members first of all y'all need to know and understand that this Jenkins has been my girlfriend for a better part of a decade that's my boo. Tim Brockman I thought that the Wild Wild West together right across the hall in the tunnel building when I was throwing Ashley he is out of class and giving it to one of my students so I have call Lisa propane to help me cheat on the sideline when I was getting beat in football games in Northwest I appreciate you so so please understand that coming to me is a pleasure this is not a pastor and disclosure to come back here did receipts up smiling faces to see such good people I was driving up here I was running through this in my head in a person that jumped out at me leave until 3 64 I noticed when I was at my job I have six Department we have about 300 people and I are Division and I run Transportation that's why y'all be nice until late next week okay cuz this is a monster across the state he said you can eat as soon as I heard that way get your child a ride I said yeah I said I said because I was talking to Annette. in a boy said $20 an hour alright pre-pandemic I had 93 bus on the road which application now I have 55 and I'm still starting at $20 an hour with some of the issues that we have in eastern North Carolina exists everywhere alright exist Catholic three things for me today and everyday to let Coach Jim Valvano said that he said if you have a full day you would like to take care of that today cuz I'm just a man dressed up as educating all right he said you would think that you would be moved to tears through almost they don't have to always be sad but you said so talk to you about the day I said you know I can talk to them about Tiffany and it will probably run me out of there because open my location I can't today because it was alright I haven't seen that I want to trap him hard on you and I want you to know first of all this working at 7 to place a special place that building right there it was a special place for me I just finished dealing with kid and all of her clothes over there at the end of you driving we was selling hot dogs lady with low Brown been doing all week so we can talk about that but you probably still prosecuted for some of the stuff that you can and I can't and I was in the principal at the High a very special place to me because Bridges and friendships in that building that last a lifetime Robert Redford where is because when you hear somebody talk about you if I agree I don't feel like I'm that old and I've done nothing but I guess I did I have enrolled me and more to do with people like Friday Litecoin one of the best special education teachers you will find anywhere to this day I still call Robby the president because in this building just off the Alicia Wells on the left side she was first man I was Tucson principal of the Year under and administrators live let me say something to you real quick if you don't push the envelope and support your job go away. Who is I am here for you to do it and if you don't know how to do it tomorrow she said I need to talk to you how was good and she said usually it was something like giving a number to central office to call me Michaela that's kind of how we do things are we have exterior supporting each other inside eating breakfast and all that kind of stuff I started to notice they were all kind of stuff outside how about that because when we emerged before you last night but it was the man you would jump my behind about stuff and she would houses with the same way if I'll take the heat for what y'all do it right okay probably read about this I'm not going to spend my time breaking back on suits you know Jaden Latimore was my favorite team the all time the high school we got the high school I'm right here I called them little baby genius and I want you to know Middle School black males in standard the school that I use welding Middle School the. That I use ten years after I left and before I arrive and I look at that and I looked at the fact that that even when I was there we weren't reaching blackmails to the year we needed to reach. What's the saying is I got to go to Middle School our proficiency 20.1% and that's because it's a cat Norm the children took the test and it was 14.2% and we started and we started to get down to the root of it and data to let me know about that but it's more than numbers it's about human connection and that's what I'm going to spend some time talking to you about that right there thank you though coach Williams Echo chainsaw bar Lounge Fort Snelling Cemetery property because I know I got a phone call and they was very very accommodating well then also was a part of this area is on the left hand side call the Hair on the head singer Carrboro High School he's all-conference in a couple of sport is Big Time baseball player Andre is a senior at Mississippi state is playing Michael talked about cuz I'm free just call me if I was going to get the I got the boys pooping baby today images of people that cost more than a car that's the one on the right hand side all of them playing baseball well and Coca-Cola when there is a seventh-grader in my ribs in 11th grade but they both want Thomas titles in baseball I think whole sentence is because well they made such an impact on it understand welding in the coaches here so Michael Troy garity Coryell Grady Williams I've been in their life since they came out Google but those guys made more impact ways that I couldn't because I was just at that because of the human connection so I appreciate you guys because you and even though they've gone on and they're doing other things now they are appreciative of the human connection but you got to take it in so you just ate and you I'll let you sit there and go to sleep on me or you was wrong about that all right so you don't do something I'm a facilitator so I know I am I slide I set up an index cards on the table but I have them sitting here and yellow cars belong to Central server Social Services people video call and pink card the same thing goes to middle school orange goes to the Elementary in green to the ha so please make sure you get a call I promise I'm not going to snitch on anybody what you write on your car but this is what I want to do don't put your name on it but which condition on it anything like that I just want you to write on the three lines on that why am I here today on the lines are there car right why am I here today somebody might say Best Buy is there but why am I here today and I'm going to give you about a minute right now the three reasons that you were here today everybody have a car right all right why you were finishing that up I want to do a quick roll call okay did you ever text you stretch your legs off further your people any first-year teachers people that first year is that position Santa Fe Banda so we have no come on up here first choice ER so you're telling me this is the only first-year first that is imma need to see you first year people up here with me I didn't mean to hurt you first all right all right color please your name and your assignment for this year NM PE teacher at the elementary school my name is Sean Felder this is going to be the humidity Church City High School is this is what I mean high school elementary school elementary in Los Angeles all right second and third and second and third you people where are you all right all right 30 different we can have a conversation without any words Yagami yato cuz they've been through montage they know the deal. so this is why I need Elementary all right well Elementary people miserable people cosplaying behind me second and third anyway where is a fifteen-year folks on your feet yeah call back in the morning so I can come on did we know how to get this done Elementary Middle where am I 16 225 60 16 to 25 what's the difference 1625 25 + 50 equal Elementary people don't care. play The Weeknd what we going to do for a few minutes how much are you in yogurt I want everybody I want you to make one commitment to the people in that group that you going to beat this year Google remind me I will come to work 15 second to wrap it up. all right Iron Man versus call Ryan so they need you to do me a favor even if you didn't get an opportunity to speak in your group write your commitment on the back of your car principals at the end of this please make sure you collect meatballs for your school there's no names on them but you don't look at the commitments and things that you need for your grandma to be what you do cuz I'm running out of time I want to talk about call Parker so please understand that what we doing education is that you're not going to be on Forbes list of the richest top 10 because who was Harper Lee's also understand that part here has abandoned in this happen in this journey classification but we still build a bridge that understand that we're building bridges for children every day that's how it goes next week and we're going to have to start building bridges I want you to understand is you have to Maslow before you can 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Pick a defense or offense but Johnny would get bubbles for the children to the community he will fundraise money me to take children home so we will have practice a good time and Johnny did the Littleton I live in Roanoke Rapids and he will have to go to Idaho pictures of bring it to practice and take them back I'll give it to you will burn 50 or 75 miles he was a man who said coach you can do it he said we can do whatever we need some Giants store playoffs and that's when they only had 16 teams in the playoffs to a and which meant we had to go play number one okay don't we just do we have the bad brakes we are just as good as they are we going to get on this bus Google Lowdown Johnny came to the coach that's a long way he said you know how many buses on Looking Glass it looks like Richard Pryor in the bus Duluth Johnny said he's going in and we going sodexo.com Lake Carowinds I said tell me and I got a question for you. Take me to run all the way down here we need to book okay b l v d boys I need a check to go to Golden Corral I'll go back to the boys and Johnny. Google Lens 85th Street we passed that play all we all we got to do in wine country I need something was up when we got off the bus a giant inflatable human on the street who is Jamal black people to this week coming up coming out okay Mama. taking off the bus they came out bigamy did you get the ball out the back of the exhaust fisher cat what you doing I'll still try to tell us intercessory prayer he took the snap you should have shown no mercy was broke down I didn't receive what he said he threw that thing out there and Anthony came out because he took off running. so what do you do when your players do something to you smacking on their butt when I called Martin Luther King I am thinking about the first play today I would love to tell you that we went on and we won that game these people want to prove the other take a photo in the first quarter then in the second quarter they realized they were in there 4024 Northeast 2nd Court maybe. But it was an awesome person we got back to go away how about 3 in the morning we unloaded the bus we said we would meet on Monday season was over Johnny and the coaches found upcoming that Monday because we have a staff meeting I couldn't get up there play Johnny Cash. Johnny went to hospital and I never saw a child and he was transferred from Halifax to popular Richmond when he passed T Burger's pallbearers I remember to text Kim Robinson simply telling me you'd be strong God had my back because that was cuz he was not rich. Went to the funeral service pallbearers OT Sykes eulogized, I never told you it's a good job but John was gone who would never the same because I learn you need people to build witches human connection means more than anything if you don't care you can't have any this is my heart that start with Nia Hammond she always says it isn't okay never ending whatever issues as don't have do not matter thumbs down because those children are number one we are in the business of educating children you have a choice you can go do something else these babies don't have that choice don't get in the way of them getting what they use because we are the bridge I feel like I'm preaching to you so be it but please understand what I'm telling you. is America in the military this is my Madea James and the old stabbed over there Brady a year it's about that one moment in time that you take with that child that they remember for the rest of their life crystal ball Partnerships with the community to help get you where you use a build a bridge to Hartford I got in touch with some photos that is the executive director of the center for safer schools that cairn terrier care give away money either way. No security cameras and locks and all that kind of stuff in Chapel Hill last year cuz she gave me over half a million. Get that money she was with in Chapel Hill 2 weeks ago and I think he's coming and she told us the story that she travels to say she does because you preaching all right but she might get the pic that divide you hear from her she told us the story about a cow that does not use the bathroom all day in school because they are booked and the child told her the story and she said Charleston I don't forget that she's here talkin to My People by face I'm ready to turn the table cuz because you baby don't drink because he's bullets no no sir no ma'am you do what you do to keep children Madden Mobile for you blue what happens if you do what you got to do to make sure these children get with a D he was funny. okay because if we don't have we don't have social club Kohl's I'm almost done I got to get out the way I'm moving Lord have mercy yeah talk about mama the phases of the Moon don't believe Gordon Middle School this bull and his hair I got to call those Bullet cuz I got to take her to lunch today to before we get started his hair is gone got a call early on Christmas morning to where the heart is called I got cuz then I had to call 30 because I'm not sending a text message so I started call photos talk to her daughter Crystal and Christmas day at school I need to stay if she said would you provide a long service what cuz that was my fault that's what you was she was my pretty baby she was the one who called me don't ever touch the cash you're the principal to sign the check she said don't ever say anything for a female staff member whose inappropriately dressed I got she was not pretty so I lead the mission to defend a size of a funeral we made it through we all went back home to the middle school we break bread I went back to Durham come on my face and I had to cry for a long time cuz I'm still not going to my Bridge radio so understand that the relationships that you make our last don't take them for granted this is again she's mad at me for that Michigan she's coming today how tall is in the front office and we get to loud and catch the Jack be nimble Jack be quick I don't know if he jumped over the Candlestick I don't know what happened all of us to talk loud are all and it is but she taught us how to build Bridges that guy right there that's my man that is the late Reverend Ralph still in the bed 2022 Explorer cuz I lost between 22 and 2022 when I was finishing my doctor's real lost my password and he was the person that I went to for everything but I was off the chain when I was hollering it upset you would give me a call at work July 9th he went to Glory run everything that he said every message from church phone call running back to my head down and said something that's awesome he said he told us to do the right thing I'm waiting for you as I get ready to sit down today to do the right thing when baking show up for class today and got a pimple do the right thing we are a Title 1 School principal you need some pencils if your email me to buy you some pictures and send them to you do the right thing do the right thing when you do the right thing when you're annoyed with his ministrations off of change the power policy that you do not understand and do the right thing because somebody's life is depending on you and if you like me everybody flip a coin all right I will Google, can I play the next to human connection to do the right thing directions see you later go get one more shot. You can sing along if you want close first song that I had Qdoba's off okay we are so does this song don't worry about it we ready no no no no no profoundly what I'm telling on y'all want to see a big Michael Jackson fan was Man in the Mirror I want you to keep that song in the back of your head all right as you feel pretty as you make that human connection understand the chain starts with who was the man in the mirror thank you for having me Facebook wow well mrs. Stewart we are so glad that you came here to share with us today I am truly proud to call you my friend and my mentor you are real and you ready he has always been real ever since I've known him he really took us back to the basics today and you have done well to the school as well. Thank you. at this time every time you have from the Roanoke Valley Chamber of Commerce Miss and Sahara business education partnership manager hi everybody nice to be here look so I get to Follows Stewart what can I say I'll try to keep it somewhere in the ballpark to be wonderful like him I just want to say thank you for have