The Stories Teachers Tell (Covid Edition)
The Story Teachers Tell The 2020-2021 has taken a toll and the impact is not fully realized. Teachers are strong, resilient, amazingly adaptive, and full of hope - but we are in trauma. The pandemic left teachers taking on new roles and greater workloads. Educators...
Lessons Learned from A Year of Pandemic Teaching (with infographic)
I, like many of you reading this, have spent a year as a pandemic teacher. This past week my memories on social media were flooded with posts about switching to an online format for my students, my own kids coming home for spring break and never going back to school,...
Education’s Post-Pandemic Focus Revealed
Leading with Value When I started Joy in Teaching I decided to lead with value, meaning that I believed (and still do) that the message of working to make teaching a sustainable career by helping educators build resilience and fight burnout comes first. I didn't...
Teachers, You Can Be Both
Dear teachers, for those of you who need to hear this, YOU CAN BE BOTH. You can be both sad for missing what teaching once was and excited about what is happening in your classroom now. You can be both hopeful that learning returns to "normal" and hopeful that this...
A Sum of Sacrifices
A Sum of Sacrifices Walk into any classroom right now - virtual on face-to-face and you will see teachers pushing. They are giving their all and have, in ways unseen, become a sum of sacrifices. All of us, everywhere, are adapting. We're all doing what needs to be...
Education Reform Amid A Pandemic
Is education reform possible right now? It is undeniable that the covid 19 pandemic shook the world of education. It is also undeniable that real education reform is difficult in the best of times. In the spring of 2020 the routines and practices that we all had...
