Staci, a high-school biology teacher, posted a CLOSED sign on the door of her home office. A self-proclaimed “recovering workaholic” who “graded papers all the time,” she decided that she needed to “be kind” to herself and took off every weekend to pursue her passion for photography. Now she and her husband “hop on our […]
Reclaim the Joy of Teaching You are a VIP: Treat Yourself as One Imagine you have a student who consistently fails to complete her tasks for the week. She can’t find the time to get her homework completed. She is so busy making a stack of flash cards that she has little time left before […]
When You Remember Your Why, You Will Reclaim the Joy of Teaching It’s been one of those terrible, horrible, awful, no-good days. Get a grip. Life is too short — and the school year is too long — to be miserable. Are you willing to believe misery is optional and joy can be just one […]
When you remember your why, you fall in love all over again with teaching! What do all super-successful people, whatever field they are in, have in common? It’s not experience. You already know that longevity doesn’t necessarily breed success. It’s not extraordinary skills. You realize that knowing what and how to do something doesn’t necessarily […]
Tired of hearing yourself complain? Tired of hearing your colleagues complain? Three Ways to Claim a Creator Mindset When Others Around You Have a Victim Mindset I’m just an old German farmer. I can’t help it. I can’t change. That was the principal’s dismissive response when confronted about his behavior at what had turned into […]
“You helped me realize, for the first time in my life, I am somebody.” The woman had a radiance about her as she spoke these words. She had just completed one of my workshops, where she discovered personality strengths she never realized she had, and she wanted to tell her story. She said, “I’ve always […]
How to be the Pied Piper Principal Whose Teachers Will Follow You Anywhere You Gotta Know the Emotional Territory Robert, a high school principal, was a divisive leader, cultivating a group of adoring followers among his faculty and his students and their parents, while at the same time, alienating a larger group who eventually petitioned […]
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