A Teacher Who Took a Leap of Faith: Megan Mottley, Publisher of DIVINE Magazine
As the culmination of our month long articles about teacher branding, we want to highlight educators who decided to use their skills in the classroom to literally build their own brands. Today we are...
View Article{The Educator’s Room Annual Conference} Call For Proposals Now Open!
Are you interested in presenting at our first annual conference? Can you recall the path that led you to become a teacher? Do you demonstrate your expertise and encourage fellow educators to do the...
View ArticleTeacher Branding: The 12- 18 Month Rule
After effectively launching The Educator’s Room, LLC and spearheading (and then helped write) my first two books, “Keep the Fire Burning: Avoiding Teacher Burnout and “Behind the Desk” ,” a lot of my...
View ArticleTeachers, Being Loyal May Cost You Your Professional Career
Yesterday in my staff meeting we found out that the founder of my school was leaving the school to pursue other career opportunities within the district. He was obviously torn between his decision to...
View ArticleTeacher Branding 101: Present On Your Area of Expertise
As teachers, how many times have we sat in professional development and listened to an educational consultant tell us what would work with our students? They bring all kinds of pretty data, display...
View ArticleSchool is Out for the Summer – What is Next?
“What is next for me personally?” is great question. In its simplicity and sincerity this question has left me believing that someone actually cares about my answer. Our middle and high school have...
View ArticleTeachers Need an Authentic Career Path
After teaching for thirteen years, attending countless hours of professional development and teaching hundreds of kids, I am bored with being in the classroom. I’m not bored with actually teaching...
View ArticleStand out from the crowd: How to Secure Your Dream Teaching Job
courtesy nyceducator.com Landing a great teaching job is difficult. It really is. And especially in today’s economic climate of pink slips and education budget reductions, getting the job is a...
View ArticleTeacher Branding 101: Teacher Brainwashing Has to Stop
“Well, I’m okay with struggling financially, I teach because I love my kids not to get rich.” “Well…I’d like to move to that job in Central Office, but I don’t know if I’m qualified.” “I don’t know if...
View Article{New Podcast} Staff Loungin’ World Tour Interview
Welcome to Staff Loungin World Tour, the podcast where educators talk about education and fly around the world in a Lear jet sipping champagne and eating caviar while they do it In this inaugural...
View ArticleTeacher Branding Advice for School Districts: Make Your Teachers Happy
Once upon a time in a land far, far away , I worked in a district where the majority of teachers were unhappy-unhappy to the point of down right disgust. Almost every employee I saw walk into a school...
View Article#SATCHAT’s Coalition of the Willing Should Be in Teacher Ed Programs
Rather than sleep in, hundreds of educators spend Saturday mornings (7:30 EST) tweeting away on Twitter in discussions with other educators worldwide about current issues in education. The hashtag...
View ArticleTeacher Branding 101: Use The Summer to Strategize on Your Brand
Summer vacation is a critical time for teachers. It is time to decompress from all of the stress of the school year and realign your teaching for the new school year. Many teachers use this time to...
View ArticleEmpowering Yourself as an Expert
“Empowering teachers as experts” is the mission statement of The Educators Room. It is a powerful statement, but only true if we believe in ourselves as teachers. Many of us are made to feel like we...
View ArticleFor the Teachers Who Don’t Support Other Teachers
Every week in my inbox, I receive emails from teachers who are teetering on the edge of total breakdowns. Sometimes they’re stressed about their evaluations while other times they are stressed about...
View ArticleEducational Consultants..The Case for More Teachers
We’ve all been there. An educational consultant comes into your school for professional learning and all you get is a glorified PowerPoint Presentation full of strategies you’ve already used that don’t...
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