Professional Development

from Professional Development by Jigs

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lyrics

Yeah, this professional development
Is not about directing validation of my relevance,
Or meant to be selling me as refereed intelligence.
The Lesson Plan’s ahead of it. Complete your prerequisite. I
Seem to search for the best in me. A testament
To those who see the best in me before me. My descendants
Of a history of people that be tryna set the precedent of
Treating each piece of humanity as delicate.
Empathy has yet to be center of our temperament.
Society will let us temporarily address it
But if dialect is temporary, change will become secondary
To the newest commentary we become obsessed with.
Reflection, when a regimen, is medicine to rest in.
So then when they come in questioning, we know the best in
Us will fly the truest of the colors that we represent.
I highly recommend it. Check it…

Yeah this professional development is…
“Where emotion and language develop.”
Yeah this professional development is…
“Masterful narratives using rap.”
Yeah this professional development is…
“A way of being and a way of thinking.”
Yeah this professional development is…

Ask the questions to yourself.
It’s that reflection that will help us
Learn together. Grow together. Live together.
Aye, Kari! Bring it back like…
Ask the questions to yourself.
It’s that reflection that will help us
Learn together. Grow together. Live together.
Professional development.

Yeah this professional development is…
“It’s the dialogue, it’s the conversation.”
Yeah this professional development is…
“It’s the being angry at what your friend is going through.”
Yeah this professional development is…
“How I can show up for them in the spaces that they’re not allowed.”
Yeah this professional development is… For us
“To listen.”

Yeah. Yeah this professional development
Is meant to be a weapon when you step into the elements.
Don’t ever underestimate the power of a sentence.
Each and every one of us can move a mountain with a message.
She could be 22, a woman with a speech impediment
Slammin spoken word, inaugurating a new president.
Begin to heal a nation that’s been plagued with racial prejudice
Embedded in its history that benefits supremacists.
Now, now don’t mistake me for a pessimist
Who’s easily offended. See, I see it like I tell it.
Education is the key to close the empathetic deficits
And polarizing tension bound to blow up any second. It’s...
Less about what we said, but what we meant from it.
But know that our progression isn’t driven by intention. It
Requires heavy action, even heavier reflection.
Not to mention some of this…
Professional development.

credits

from Professional Development, released February 3, 2024
Lyrics written by Matt Jurasewicz. Audio recording by Matt Jurasewicz. Composed and produced by Colin Keenan and Matt Jurasewicz.