I am Erika, known by my students as Morty, and I’m starting this podcast to support teachers. I love having conversations with friends who are teachers, and it seems conversations always inevitably come back to teaching.
The thing is, often some of the most amazing insights and a-has come out of those conversations, but then they might get lost. Some of these happen over drinks at the end of a long week, or just a casual conversation.
My goal here is to chat with people about their experiences in education. What brought them there, what shaped them, and really just whatever comes up. I have some intense stories from my career and I know that others do too.
Teaching can be super isolating and we can often wonder if we’re doing it “right,” or if anyone else is struggling in the same ways that we are. I would say the short answers are that there is no such thing as “right,” and yes.
We often don’t feel like we have the time in our day to check in with our teacher friends down the hall. Or maybe when we do, we only have the capacity to complain or get help with our lessons.
So this is the place to dive in and keep track of these shared experiences and insights. To make you feel less alone. To try to better understand the system we are working within.
I will talk to teachers, students, social workers, admin, security, office staff, really whoever wants to talk to me. We all contribute to a school’s culture and the ways that we do or do not truly support students, and we all have interesting stories and ideas.
If you want to share yours, please reach out! You can find me at lovemorty.com or @love.morty on Instagram.