Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard · TED
Linda Cliatt-Wayman分享了她作为费城失败高中校长的经历，通过恐惧无畏和深爱学生的三个原则，成功扭转学校局面。适合英语学习者练习听力，提高领导力和教育话题理解。
It was November 1, 2002, my first day as a principal, but hardly my first day in the school district of Philadelphia.
那是2002年11月1日，我担任校长的第一天，但对我来说，这远不是我第一次来到费城这个学区。
I graduated from Philadelphia public schools, and I went on to teach special education for 20 years in a low-income,
我毕业于费城的公立学校，之后在低收入社区从事特殊教育工作长达20年。
low-performing school in North Philadelphia, where crime is rampant and deep poverty is among the highest in the nation.
这所学校位于费城北部，教学质量较差；该地区犯罪率极高，贫困程度也属于全国最高之列。
Shortly after I walked into my new school, a huge fight broke out among the girls.
我刚走进新学校不久，女生们之间就爆发了一场激烈的争吵。
After things were quickly under control, I immediately called a meeting in the school's auditorium to introduce myself as the school's new principal.
在情况迅速得到控制后，我立即在学校礼堂召开了会议，向大家介绍了自己作为新校长的身份。
I walked in angry, a little nervous -- -- but I was determined to set the tone for my new students.
我怒气冲冲地走进教室，同时也有点紧张；但我决心要为新来的学生们树立一个良好的榜样（即通过自己的行为来影响他们）。
I started listing as forcefully as I could my expectations for their behavior
我尽可能强烈地表达了自己对他们行为的期望。
and my expectations for what they would learn in school.
以及我对他们在学校能学到什么内容的期望。
When, all of a sudden, a girl way in the back of the auditorium,
突然之间，礼堂后排的一个女孩……
she stood up and she said, "Miss!
她站了起来，说道：“小姐！
Miss!"
小姐！
When our eyes locked, she said, "Why do you keep calling this a school?
当我们的目光交汇时，她说：“你为什么一直称这里为‘学校’呢？
This is not a school."
这里不是一所学校。
In one outburst, Ashley had expressed what I felt
在一次情绪失控的爆发中，阿什莉说出了我内心的感受。
and never quite was able to articulate about my own experience when I attended a low-performing school in the same neighborhood,
当我就读于同一社区里那所教学质量较差的学校时，我也始终无法清楚地表达自己的亲身经历。
many, many, many years earlier.
在很多很多很多年之前……
That school was definitely not a school.
那所学校根本算不上是一所真正的学校。
Fast forwarding a decade later to 2012,
快进十年，到了2012年……
I was entering my third low-performing school as principal.
我第三次以校长的身份接管一所办学表现不佳的学校。
I was to be Strawberry Mansion's fourth principal in four years.
在四年时间里，我将成为草莓庄园学校的第四任校长。
It was labeled "low-performing and persistently dangerous" due to its low test scores and high number of weapons,
由于测试成绩较低且武器数量过多，该系统被归类为“性能低下且持续存在安全隐患”的系统。
drugs, assaults and arrests.
毒品、暴力袭击以及逮捕事件。
Shortly as I approached the door of my new school and attempted to enter, and found the door locked with chains,
当我刚走到新学校的门口并试图进入时，发现门被链条锁住了。
I could hear Ashley's voice in my ears going, "Miss!
我仿佛还能听到阿什莉的声音在我耳边回响：“小姐！
Miss!
小姐！
This is not a school."
这可不是一所学校。
The halls were dim and dark from poor lighting.
由于照明条件不佳，大厅里显得昏暗而阴沉。
There were tons of piles of broken old furniture and desks in the classrooms, and there were thousands of unused materials and resources.
教室里堆满了许多破旧的家具和桌子；此外，还有成千上万未被使用过的材料与资源。
This was not a school.
这根本不是一所学校。
As the year progressed, I noticed that the classrooms were nearly empty.
随着时间的推移，我注意到教室里几乎空无一人。
The students were just scared: scared to sit in rows in fear that something would happen;
学生们只是感到害怕——害怕按排就座，担心会发生什么不好的事情。
scared because they were often teased in the cafeteria for eating free food.
他们感到害怕，因为在食堂里，他们经常因为“吃免费食物”而遭到他人的嘲笑和欺负。
They were scared from all the fighting and all the bullying.
他们害怕所有的战斗和欺凌行为。
This was not a school.
这根本不是一所学校。
And then, there were the teachers, who were incredibly afraid for their own safety,
然后是那些老师们，他们非常担心自己的安全。
so they had low expectations for the students and themselves, and they were totally unaware of their role in the destruction of the school's culture.
因此，他们对学生和自己都抱有很低的期望；同时，他们完全意识不到自己在破坏学校文化的过程中所扮演的角色。
This was the most troubling of all.
这是所有情况中最令人担忧的。
You see, Ashley was right,
你看，阿什莉说得对。
and not just about her school.
而且这不仅仅与她的学校有关。
For far too many schools, for kids who live in poverty, their schools are really not schools at all.
对太多生活在贫困中的孩子来说，他们的学校其实根本算不上真正的学校。