The Teacher SPIRIT
Like so many educators today, I left the educational profession because my school “SPIRIT” was suffering.
I didn’t know what that meant at the time or exactly how to describe it because really I was focused on my poor health and inability to walk very far without my legs giving out on me.
I left the profession “broken” both physically and mentally.
I literally had “fallen”, and I could’t get up.
I was lost with no sense or real direction(s).
So, when I walked across Spain on the Camino Francés, with each step I took and each person I met and each experience I had, I learned a lesson.
And these lessons eventually led me back to my true teaching SPIRIT.
I wanted to share the lessons from my journey with others, especially teachers, to somehow help them find their way back to their true SPIRIT.
I founded The Spirit of Teaching, created a website of resources and started a podcast called Teacher Tales in which teachers can tell their stories of teaching and what makes up a true teaching SPIRIT.
Of course being a teacher and in the field of education, I developed an acronym to help remember the qualities and aspirations of a true teaching SPIRIT (which is why it is capitalized and really should have periods in between each letter).
They can be found on this website and shared with others.
Print them out and put them in your plan book.
Journal about them.
Post the mantras and “yellow arrow” guides around your classroom, home, office, car, etc.
There are even more resources that can help guide you and keep you on your intended path.
You also might want to purchase my book Learning Lessons which is a real treasure trove of insight, resources, guidance and activities that you can use to help inspire and guide you back to your own True Self and the teaching SPIRIT in all of us!
Link to purchase Learning Lessons.
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