Rita Pierson has been a teacher for 40 years, so she's got a lot of knowledge and experience about teaching, so by anecdotes she expains that being a teacher it isn't only about theaching, it's about giving confidence to the pupils, know how to apologize them, how to understand them, motivate them... and maybe the most important make them feel someone.
I totally agree with her, so as a chess player I found out that a person can have a lot of knowledge and experience, but not everyone can have the ability to transmit this knowledge, and passion for learning.
Rita Pierson at the end of the speech makes a short summary:
"Teaching and learning should bring joy, how powerful would our world be, if we had kids who were not afraid to take risks, who were not afraid to think. Every child deserves a CHAMPION: An adult who will never give up on them, who will understand the power of connection and insist that they become the best that they possibly be."
