S2EP12 Lisa Dabb's Truth: Thriving--not surviving--with support from a virtual mentor
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Do you wish you had more support and encouragement from other teachers in your school? Consider virtual mentorship! Lisa Dabbs shares why she's so passionate about new teacher mentoring, and how you can get involved (as a mentor or mentee) in her New Teacher Mentoring Project.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2, episode 12 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.0 | 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 |
| 0:15.4 | energized for the week ahead. Today I've invited educator Lisa Dabs to share |
| 0:21.2 | her thoughts on the importance of teacher mentoring so that new teachers not only survive, but |
| 0:26.9 | actually thrive. |
| 0:29.1 | Visit truth for teachers.com to read the blog post, get links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts |
| 0:35.3 | on the show. So Lisa Dams is a very good friend of mine. She is a wife and a mom who |
| 0:42.4 | started her career as an elementary school teacher in Southern California. |
| 0:47.0 | She then spent 14 years as an elementary school principal. |
| 0:51.0 | And in 2009, Lisa started supporting teachers in a new role as an |
| 0:56.2 | educational consultant. So she's written books for teachers, she's conducted |
| 1:01.2 | instructional coaching. |
| 1:03.0 | She presents at conferences. |
| 1:04.5 | She does online webinars. |
| 1:07.4 | And she founded the NT chat, the new teacher chat on Twitter. |
| 1:11.8 | And she's done a lot more than that, but she is extremely passionate |
| 1:15.5 | about mentoring and supporting new teachers. And today she's going to share with you why she |
| 1:20.6 | has that passion and how you can get involved with her new teacher mentoring |
| 1:25.4 | project so that you can either find or give support to other educators virtually. |
| 1:33.0 | In my career as an educator, I have spent a tremendous amount of time working with new teachers. |
| 1:38.0 | I myself was a teacher, and then I moved into the area of school administration, and I spent 14 years as an elementary school principal. |
| 1:47.0 | In that time, I must have hired over 100 new teachers and saw many that were successful but also saw several that were not. |
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