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 Brave Heart,
What are you dreaming about today? Are you dreaming of revolution? What does it look like? Please comment below or on Brave Teachers FB page. We want to hear from you!
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We are in a crazy era of education.
Test results are viewed as ultimate truths Dysfunction is rampant in a broken system. Mediocrity rules the day. The ills of society have seeped into each day in every classroom. Politicians and bureaucrats trump teachers in the trenches. We believe lies and turn a blind eye to honesty. Teachers feel like disposable and disrespected garbage. What can we do? It's tempting to sell out. Or keep silent. Or buy the party line. Or ignore the reality. Or feel paralyzed by fear. Instead I say Let's start a revolution {Just love your students} Meet each individual right where they are. {Just love your students} It's going to be messy and imperfect and unpopular and lonely {Just love your students} It's going to break your heart over and over again. {Just love your students} You are a revolutionary {Just love your students} ~Poetry by Brave Teacher Mim Don't be satisfied with stories of how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. {Rumi}  I'm totally loving this Rumi quote. I just finished reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho--a beautiful novel completed devoted to unfolding your own myth. I'm in the process of just beginning to unfold my own myth. {It's probably the scariest thing I've ever done.} It is also the most transformative experience of my life. It's changing my right down to my bones.
By nature teachers are very good at helping others unfold their myths, and we invest so much in the story of others that sometimes we lose sight of our own story. May you remember that your story is valuable May your be open to unfold your own myth xo Brave Teacher Mim  Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. {Ambrose Redmoon} It takes a great deal of courage to be a brave teacher these days. It is so difficult to be judged every day by impossible standards--to be devalued by society--to interpret the nonstop changes to standards and policies and that doesn't even begin the challenge of teaching all students every day, regardless of what happens during the other 17.5 hours of their lives each day. So, dear Brave Teacher, what are you doing that propels you above the fear with purpose? What gets you out of bed every day? What keeps you going when you feel the overwhelm and fear seeping in? Please comment and support your collegues! |
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