There's Power in Teaching
There's Power in Teaching
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We share content related to our mission of inspiring and growing current and rising educators to become community leaders and advocates for high quality education.
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Centers on educational leadership, advocacy for quality education, and innovative teaching practices, with episodes discussing topics such as the challenges faced by teachers, strategies for improving educational access, and insights from educational conferences, including a discussion on the rise of uncertified teachers in Texas and how to support new teachers in the classroom.
We share content related to our mission of inspiring and growing current and rising educators to become community leaders and advocates for high quality education.
“Teaching is a universal language of love.” — on meeting teachers at the school in La Fortuna
Becky Rowe teaches Teaching Professions Academy at Turpin High School in the Forest Hills School District, a satellite program of Great Oaks Career Development Centers in Cincinnati, Ohio — and this year marks her 18th year teaching and 10th at Turpin. In this conversation with host Kathleen Vail, Becky talks about how Educators Rising became the backbone of her TPA program, then dives into the story behind her recent Educators Rising scholarship trip to Costa Rica: nine days spent chasing fluency in a language she’d once lost, visiting a rural bilingual school as “a stranger off the street,” riding out an earthquake and a tropical storm, and eating the best brownie of her life.
She closes with what she’s bringing back to her own classroom — a “pura vida” mindset, a renewed commitment to modeling risk-taking for her students, and maybe a TESOL license.
“I’ve already made like seven pans of brownies.” — on her ongoing, so-far-unsuccessful quest to recreate a brownie from La Fortuna
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