EP282 Where I’m going: Reflections on what excites me about my work & the future of schools
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
I’m concluding the 3 part podcast series this summer offering a deep dive into my personal story: where I’ve been, where I’m at, and where I’m going.
Usually you can listen to my podcast episodes in any order you want, but since this is basically my life story, what I’m sharing in this episode will make a lot more sense if you’ve heard the beginning of what happened:
- EP278 How I got here: Reflections on 20 years of sharing teaching ideas online
- EP280 Where I’m at: Reflections on who I’ve become as a person and educator
In this final installment of the three part series, I'm looking forward, and talking about what's next:
- How I grapple with imposter syndrome, maintaining relevance, and criticism of my work
- Why I view my work in terms of years-long problems I'm trying to solve over the course of a lifetime
- How I plan to translate my experience and accumulated wisdom into my next big project
- Why I plan to focus more on connecting with educators via my email list and podcast instead of social media
- A dream my husband and I have for supporting educators in a way that leaves a lasting legacy
- How rediscovering lost parts of myself, childhood interests, and hobbies apart from work shapes the perspective I bring to teaching
- Why I think the future of schools is nearly impossible to predict, but I’m committed to uncovering new possibilities and finding the good
- How I stay hopeful amidst so much bad news, and the perspective that keeps me feeling balanced, energized, and optimistic
Anything you're still curious about? If there's anything I didn't talk about in this podcast series that you're still left wondering, I'm doing an AMA (ask me anything) episode next month!
Use this form to submit a question about a personal or professional aspect of my life that you'd like to hear more about. https://forms.gle/CNWQT7Y8ccT66phS6
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 282 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host, Angela Watson and I'm here to speak encouragement into the hearts of educators and get you informed and energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:14.0 | Today I'm wrapping up the three-part podcast series I did this summer of personal reflections and sharing what's ahead for me and what I see for the future of schooling. |
| 0:26.0 | Visit truthforteachers.com for an easy to read, easy to share version of this podcast episode. |
| 0:34.0 | Earlier in July I hosted the first ever online summit entirely focused on saving teacher's time. If you missed out, no worries, it's not too late to get access. |
| 0:46.0 | The 40-hour teacher workweek online summit features more than 30 teacher-led sessions, sharing practical ideas for streamlining and simplifying your workload. |
| 0:56.0 | The sessions are just 15 to 20 minutes each and there's no fluff, filler or product sales. Each presenter is a member of my 40-hour program and a current classroom teacher, sharing their day-to-day habits that help them stop working endlessly on nights and weekends. |
| 1:13.0 | You can purchase forever access to all the sessions, round tables and the three keynotes I conducted for the summit, meaning you can watch and rewatch on demand whenever it's convenient for you. |
| 1:25.0 | You'll also get detailed summaries, note-taking guides, full transcripts and more bonuses. |
| 1:31.0 | Just go to join.40htw.com forward slash summit or click the link in the show notes to get your forever access pass to the 40-hour teacher workweek online summit. |
| 1:44.0 | So here we are at the end of my three-part series this summer that I did on the podcast, sharing my personal story. |
| 1:54.0 | I have revealed in episodes 278 and 280, a little bit more about my childhood, my upbringing, the experiences that shaped my thinking and kind of made me who I am as a person. |
| 2:09.0 | So I've shared a lot of stuff that I've never talked about publicly before. |
| 2:13.0 | And I have to say the responses so far to this series have been so heartwarming and supportive and affirming and I just feel very seen and understood. |
| 2:25.0 | So thank you all for that. Thank you for the people who reached out and shared that they could relate or that they appreciated my attempt to be thoughtful in sharing some things that are, you know, can be divisive, can be difficult to talk about, can be alienating. |
| 2:42.0 | You know, it felt really important to me to tell you more about my backstory and so many of you said that you've enjoyed that. So thank you for that. |
| 2:51.0 | So I thought I might do and ask me anything episode after this and AMA. |
| 2:57.0 | So I created a Google form. It's anonymous. It's just one question if there's something that I've shared here or maybe I didn't cover that you're curious about. |
| 3:06.0 | You can stick it in that Google form. It's linked in the show notes for this episode as well as the blog post for it. |
| 3:12.0 | And I will answer those questions in an upcoming episode for you. |
| 3:17.0 | I want to focus in this episode about what is next for me, what I have planned, what I'm excited about and what I'm working on. |
| 3:28.0 | And I want to lead into this topic by sharing with you a one star review that I received for this podcast recently. |
| 3:37.0 | The title of this review is Out of Touch with today's teacher. And here's what the review says. |
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