Welcome to episode 14 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host

Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds

and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.

Today Dave Burgess of Teach Like a Pirate Fame is here to share some thoughts on how to

collaborate with colleagues who don't share your vision or support your creativity and innovation.

Visit Truth for Teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show.

We'd love to hear from you.

So, before I bring Dave on, I want to introduce a new episode format that I'm going to be trying out in episode 16. It's going to be called

Ask Angela Anything. And this was a feature that I actually had on my blog for many years.

My blog is the Cornerstone for

teachers.com. So I had this feature there and teachers could type in their

questions into this Google form so it was anonymous and I would answer them on the blog. And I used to answer

three or four questions proposed and it was a pretty popular advice column as these

things go I guess but I felt like the posts were getting to be too long.

Some of the questions were really deep,

and I couldn't answer them in just a few sentences

in any real meaningful way.

And they might have been too specific to a particular teacher's situation to warrant

their own blog post.

So I just kind of quietly ended the series and if someone ever happens to stumble in an old post and they submit a really good question

I might sometimes answer it in a random blog post.

But I thought that Ask Angela anything might be kind of a fun feature to revive here on the

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