A Daringly Easy Recipe For Your Professional Happiness and a Party, Too!
An Easy Holiday Recipe for Student Engagement & Professional Happiness For Student Engagement: Be fearlessly goofy (in moderation and at the right time), laugh at yourself (often!), admit when you don't know something or are wrong both to the kiddos and to your colleagues. Mix it up, be vulnerable, be daring to try new things, and learn when you fail them. Do not forget to celebrate when you succeed! It's OK to do a happy dance now and then. For Professional Happiness: Have empathy and patience for those other educators who don't "get it," are annoying, haters, stuck in the past, toxic, sour to the kiddos, & not supportive. Empathy because they can't or won't change and because they don't get the joy of our calling. They're just putting in time until the next snow day, bank holiday, or break. How sad for them! Bless their hearts! How to Repress Passive Aggressive Funpires! Call out (gently) those people who are p...