S5EP06 How to hold onto hope in a dismal school climate (Daniele's coaching call)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 12 March 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today I'm going to let you listen in on a coaching call I did with a 3rd grade teacher named Daniele. Like all the teachers I'm conducting these free coaching calls with, Daniele completed a year in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club and has a really good understanding of how to be intentional in her teaching and maintain a positive, productive mindset.
However, as we progressed through the conversation, it became clear she's dealing with a whole lot of things that are completely out of her control, things that are increasing her workload and stress level exponentially.
About halfway through the call, I think we got to the real heart of the issue, which is that morale at the school is really faltering right now and it's incredibly hard to hold onto hope every day and keep doing the work when the school climate is filled with a constant low-grade anxiety.
Daniele's given me permission to record our conversation and share it here with you so that if these are issues you're facing in your school, hopefully our thoughts will give you some encouragement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5, episode 6 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:06.0 | 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 energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.3 | Today I'm going to be talking about how to hold on to hope when your school morale is faltering. |
| 0:21.9 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the written highlights and to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:28.0 | This podcast episode is sponsored by the Teacher Toolkit.com, |
| 0:32.0 | a free website with over 60 teaching tools designed to help |
| 0:36.4 | make instruction engaging and meaningful. For each strategy you'll find step-by-step |
| 0:41.7 | instructions, editable templates, and even video footage from |
| 0:45.8 | real classrooms to show you the strategy in action. |
| 0:49.5 | To check out these free tools and the growing collection of affordable online courses. |
| 0:54.0 | Visit the Teacher Toolkit.com. |
| 0:58.0 | So if you missed episode 3 of the season's podcast, |
| 1:01.0 | you may not yet know about this new format that I'm trying out every couple of |
| 1:04.6 | episodes, which is a coaching call. So this is something like instructional coaching |
| 1:10.0 | and life coaching all sort of blended together, where I'm answering |
| 1:13.4 | teacher specific questions about productivity and balance and mindset. Today I'm |
| 1:19.3 | going to let you listen in on a coaching call that I did with a third grade teacher named Danielle. Like all the |
| 1:25.2 | teachers that I'm conducting these free coaching calls with, Danielle has completed a |
| 1:29.1 | year in the 40-hour teacher work week club and she has a really good understanding already |
| 1:33.8 | about how to be intentional in her teaching and how to maintain a positive |
| 1:38.0 | productive mindset. However as we progress through the, it became clear that she is dealing with a whole lot of things that are completely out of her control. |
| 1:49.0 | And these are things that are increasing her workload and increasing her stress level exponentially. |
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