Fun fact: I do a small amount of personalized message training and storytelling training for educators.
There are a limited number of available slots for this and they are mostly filled by direct referrals, but I love putting my highly specific, educator-novelist nerd skills to work during these conversations.
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Teaching isn’t for everyone, but leaving teaching is a big decision.
Here are some things to consider first.
Technically, you could stop here.
But you might not want to.
(more…)An anonymous, end-of-year survey is your chance to ask students the questions you may have been asking yourself all year.
Below, you’ll find eleven questions I’ve found especially helpful in getting the type of feedback that I hoped to get from students.
But first, a warning…
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Feed-based media relies on dopamine, the brain chemical of quick wins.
Our dopamine pathways fire up when a reward seems within reach—when we are one click away from blowing up on YouTube, or getting rid of our belly fat, or making a (weirdly-specific) $158,000 per year.
The business model of feed-based media is based on harvesting attention; the longer we’re “engaged,” the more attention they have to sell.
The problem?
(more…)This poem first appeared in the book See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers, by Roxanna Elden
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