Welcome to Season 3, episode 2 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 I'm going to share some thoughts on the lies that we as teachers tell ourselves

and how to uncover the truth.

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So in last week's episode I shared 10 growth mindset shifts that you can take to enjoy teaching more.

And I gave examples of negative fixed mindset thoughts that can be reframed into something that helps you perceive

your job as less stressful and more meaningful. This week I want to go deeper with that and talk to you about how the story you tell yourself about teaching is probably not true in ways that you can choose to see things differently.

You can reframe your work to recognize and appreciate

what a tremendously important job you're doing

every single minute of the day. Do you think that you wasted 15

minutes today tying shoes and zipping coats? No, you smiled at each of your

students as you bundled them up to protect them from the cold.

That might be the most loving, nurturing gesture some of those kids got all day. Do you think that you just lost an entire

afternoon to a pointless data chat meeting? No, you got to step back and look at all

of the hard work you did compiling and

analyzing information over the past week. You got to see evidence of just how well

you really know your students and you got to learn even more information that is

going to empower you to take your kids to the next level tomorrow.

Who cares if your principal's attitude made the meeting miserable?

Look at what you did.

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