Three Ways To Reclaim Your Joy As A Teacher
This weekend, I had the joy and pleasure of keynoting the ECET2MA2016 conference in Cambridge, MA. Weird wasn’t even the word. I was a Yankee fan in the middle of Red Sox town and had a Macbook in a Microsoft building. I’ve railed on a number of occasions against the founder of the company that hosted this company. Yet, a space where two or more educators are gathered is a space I need to be in. I always appreciate the passion that any set of educators have for coming in on a weekend to professionally develop each other.
The creators of our school system didn’t have joy, collaboration, and creativity in mind, especially in the spaces where our most marginalized students need that from the adults the most. As complicated as it was for me to go there, I know that is part of the work we do collectively.
I was blessed to see that the audience took to my speech on student power, teacher voice, and relationships. The conference featured some of Massachusetts’ most enthusiastic educators, but there was a sense that the primary foci of learning and teaching gave way to any number of priorities Three Ways To Reclaim Your Joy As A Teacher | The Jose Vilson:
