EP209 For the teachers who are not okay right now...
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 4 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
I decided to scrap the topic I had planned for this week and speak to the teachers who feel like they're drowning. I know what's expected right now of many kids, families, and teachers is not humanly possible on a long-term basis. And in this episode, I want to counter the system-wide gaslighting that is occurring.
What many (most?) of you are being asked to do right now is NOT, in fact, reasonable ... and the solution is not for you to simply work harder.
We are still in a pandemic. This is still crisis distance learning. This is emergency hybrid teaching. Regardless of how much districts want to pretend we can replicate normal, we cannot.
Resist the pressure to perform at optimal levels when we are not working in optimal conditions. Pushing yourself to work harder when your body's calling for rest will not help you get ahead. That approach is part of the old paradigm which has to fall away and be replaced with a way of working, teaching, and learning that is humanized and centered on well-being rather than accomplishment.
You deserve grace and compassion. Give those things to yourself when no one is giving it to you. Rest tonight. Rest this weekend. Rest is necessary for your survival and you don't need to apologize for it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 2009 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 |
| 0:12.1 | minds and hearts of educators and get you |
| 0:14.4 | energized for the week ahead. Today I'm sharing a message for educators who are |
| 0:19.7 | just not okay right now. |
| 0:22.7 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript |
| 0:25.6 | or find our truth for teachers podcast community on Facebook. |
| 0:31.8 | It's so essential right now to prioritize your self-care in order to avoid burnout and |
| 0:37.3 | compassion fatigue. |
| 0:39.1 | The Jabu Mind App is the only mindfulness app specifically designed for school teachers. |
| 0:45.0 | Using the research-based iRAST method, the app features daily mindfulness exercises, and all |
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| 1:00.7 | today in the App Store or on Google Play. It's J-A-B-U- Mind, Jabu Mind App. |
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| 1:33.0 | Just visit my affiliate link in the show notes. |
| 1:38.0 | So I decided to scrap the topic that I had planned for this week |
| 1:42.0 | and speak to the teachers who are not okay right now. |
| 1:46.9 | And I wanted to put that phrase right in the title of this episode and specify who this is intended |
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