<p>He shot highlights for ESPN as a teenager. He built a career across four TV stations in Birmingham. And he learned to do all of it because the guy who was supposed to show up one night... didn&#39;t.</p><p><br></p><p>Mark Hendren is three years into the classroom at Helena High School in Alabama, and he&#39;s thinking hard about how to give today&#39;s students the same thing someone gave him: a reason to say yes before they&#39;re ready.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>• Why &quot;failure is not an option&quot; means something completely different to this generation</p><p>• The camera setup that students walk right past without looking up (and what that actually costs them)</p><p>• What Mark calls his &quot;gold&quot; in the classroom, and it&#39;s not who you&#39;d expect</p><p>• Availability breeds opportunity, and the real story that proves it</p><p>• Why it&#39;s supposed to be terrible, and how to actually convince a student of that</p><p>• What year four looks like when you finally have a room you can lock</p><p><br></p><p>If you teach AV, broadcast, or any CTE class where students create rather than consume, this one&#39;s for you.</p><p><br></p><p>Teaching to the Test Pattern is a StreamSemester.com production. Subscribe so you don&#39;t miss what&#39;s next.</p>