EP117 Three trends from the positivity movement that are stifling teacher growth
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There are a lot of trendy phrases from popular culture and the positivity movement which have infiltrated our thinking and practices as educators. They are helpful with a great deal of truth to them. However, I think we've gotten a little bit out of balance with the positivity movement and the rallying cry to be supportive of one another as teachers.
Join me today as I discuss three trends from the positivity movement, comparing their truths and how we can take them too far. I believe that we need to be having these critical conversations about the issues and challenging one another to do better. Moving past truisms and getting real is the only way we are going to shift school culture to truly be about what's best for kids!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 117 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.8 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.8 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the |
| 0:15.0 | the week ahead. Today I'm going to share three |
| 0:17.8 | trendy phrases and ideas from the |
| 0:20.5 | positivity movement that I think are stifling teacher growth because we've |
| 0:24.4 | taken them a little bit too far. |
| 0:26.7 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get a printable PDF version of the transcript for this |
| 0:31.4 | episode as well as a free pledge and challenge |
| 0:35.1 | that you can download as well. Today I want to help you rethink some of the |
| 0:41.2 | trendy phrases from popular culture that I think have infiltrated our thinking and practices as educators. |
| 0:47.0 | These are mindset shifts and perspectives that have become really pervasive in American culture, |
| 0:52.0 | and that's because there's a great deal. become really pervasive in American culture. |
| 0:53.0 | And that's because there's a great deal of truth to them. |
| 0:56.6 | These are helpful productive outlooks. |
| 0:59.6 | And there's a lot of truth in what they're saying, |
| 1:02.1 | and there's a reason why they become so |
| 1:03.7 | popular they really do work and there's a lot of value in them. However I think we've |
| 1:09.8 | gotten a little bit out of balance with the positivity movement and this rallying cry to be |
| 1:15.1 | supportive of one another as teachers. |
| 1:18.1 | And this episode, really even just truth for teachers in general, is designed to be sort of a course correction for that. |
| 1:26.8 | You may have heard some topics on the podcast, particularly within the last year or so that |
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