In this episode Meghan Lawson shares strategies that can help educators navigate the school year. Meghan  has worked in all levels of K-12 education as a teacher, school administrator, district administrator, she’s an educational consultant, she’s a blogger, and a newly published author.

Topics Covered:
1. Our brain on positive is 31 percent more productive then when it is at negative, neutral, or stressed. 

2. Mirror neurons - we take on the energy and emotions of other people.

3. When in a negative state we should ask ourselves how long am I going to stay in this space? How am I going to get out of this space?

4. Send a text to a friend and ask them to share something great about their day. 

5. Let others know that you appreciate the good things that they do. 7:30

6. When you are lacking something be intentional and go and do that for someone else. Often times that will come back to you. 

7. Where is the love turns into there is the love. 

8. Celebrate progress. Help people celebrate along the way. 

9. Focus on the steps you are taking. 

10. Our  schools need less perfect shiny people and need more deeply human people 

11. You can’t do your best most creative work if you can’t get to a place where you’re trying new things and you’re not afraid to take risks and you’re not afraid to let other people see that you messed up. 

12. Be willing to share your mistakes.

13. Don’t tie your value as a human being or our value as an educator to how perfect something was on the first try. 

14. How many opportunities have our students heard that we shouldn’t be perfect the first try.

15. Talk about kindly about our learning process, mistakes, and capabilities. 

16. Use 30 second feedback. Write a note naming something specific that you see others doing. 

17. Every little kind word of encouragement matters in a big way. You never know what that’s going to do for a person.

18. Share specific positive feedback.

19. Share a positive word that you see in your students.

20. Book recommendation: Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guderra

21. TV show recommendation: The Bear

22. You matter so deeply to students and to this world.

Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Learning-Teaching-Lasting-Impact/dp/1948334682/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1B4E6CE2BTLJ0&keywords=meghan+lawson+legacy+of+learning&qid=1698976793&sprefix=meghan+lawson%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1

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