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How Far Are You Willing to Go to Be a ‘Good Teacher’ and How Far Is Too Far?

Pandemic Lesson 3: The Single Best Response When Virtual School Isn’t Working

Pandemic Lesson #2: I Pushed My Teachers Too Hard; In Fact, I Pushed Some Over the Edge

What I Learned From the Mistake I Made During Pandemic Teaching and Learning

I Learned That Communication Is Better Than Control

My Teacher Found a Way to Reach Me...

What Could Classroom Teachers Possibly Learn From Non-Teachers?

I Had a Fixed Mindset about Grading and It Hurt My Student

My Student Warned Me, I Did Not Listen

I Assumed Fathers Were Not Interested In Their Kids Schooling

I Thought I Was Only There to Support Students

I Was Afraid of A Student, So I Did Not Give Him My Best

I Am a Teacher, I Expected to Do Much Better

I Was Overzealous: This Tough Lesson Taught Me to Meet People Where They Are

I Left My Compassion at the Classroom Door and Discouraged a Student

I Didn't Want to Show Weakness, So I Ignored My Internal Cues

I Failed to Recognize That Every Family Matters

I Mishandled a Conflict with My Colleague

I Did the Right Things, but I Felt Guilty

I Was Unsupportive of My School Leadership

I Shamed a Student in Front of the Entire Class

I Thought I Knew What Was Happening: I Was Clueless

I Judged, Labeled, and Gave Up On a Student: I Was Wrong

Wrestling with Me, My Feelings, and Self Doubt

I Mastered Starting Things, But Too Often Failed to Finish

I Thought I Was Okay Until I Blew Up with Our New Principal

I Was Too Focused on "Appearing" to Be a Great Teacher

I Failed to Make My Expectations Clear, and It Got Ugly

I Thought My Job Was To Support Students, Not Teachers

Defiant Student: I Won the Power Struggle, But Lost the Relationship

I Made a Big Thing Out of a Small Thing

I Was Hearing, But I Wasn't Listening to the Voices That Mattered

Listening to Understand Instead of Listening to Respond

I Took Disciplinary Action with a Student that Was Too Extreme

I Was Trying to Prove Myself, But I Came Off As Insecure

I Loved Teaching, But I Let Others Define Success for Me

I Made a Flip Comment to a Veteran Teacher, Bad Move

I Failed to Bring Others to the Table When It Mattered Most

I Walked in with My Clipboard: I Forgot What It Was like to...

I Allowed Unresolved Issues to Accumulate, Then Boom...

I Prejudged a Parent and Assumed the Worst, I Was Wrong

I Failed to Gracefully Accept Failure As a Learning Experience

I Continue to Say Yes, When I Should Say No

I Underestimated and Misjudged My Student

I Tried to Change Everything Immediately, It Was My Way Or...

My Student Embarrassed Me, So I Embarrassed Him, Big Mistake

I Expected Everyone On My Staff to Agree with Me

I Called Out an Education Leader Publicly, Bad Move...

I Made Students Cry and Parents Mad, I Was Sooooo Misguided

I Was So Proud of How I Handled a Challenging Student, Then I Discovered...

I Was Focused on the Negativity and the Chaos, Then...

I Forgot My Past and Abused My Privilege

I Tried to Change My School, Before I Built Trust with the People

To Please My Supervisor, I Sold Out My Values and My Kids

I Was Trying to Be Good at Too Many Things

I Lost It, Became Defensive, and Pulled Out the Sarcasm: Bad Move

I Was Quietly Seething at a Staff Member, So I Reprimanded Everyone

I Assumed I Knew My Student, So I Called Her Out: I Was Wrong

I Kept Everything Bottled Up Until It Spilled Out In School

I Realized Too Late that I Failed To Meet My Student's Needs

I Planned The Best Lesson Ever, My Students Hated It

My Ego Undermined My Ability to Learn and Grow

Moments in My Teaching Career I Wish I Could Take Back

I thought I Was a Better Teacher than a Colleague, and I Expressed It

I Forgot ...

I thought that Being Myself Would Be Unacceptable, So I...

I Brought a Bad Attitude to the School Year: My Priority Was Me

Whoops! I Forgot My Empathy at the Door: Things Didn't Go So Well

I Failed to Adapt to the New Demands of My Position

I Was Performing Not Teaching: How I Realized Something Was Wrong

Through Trial and Error I Learned to Lead from the Inside Out

I Tried to Intimidate a Student: What Happened Next Surprised Me

I Didn't Invite Teachers to the Table. It Was a Big Mistake

I Was A Hypocrite with a Double Standard and It Rocked My World

3 Leadership Lessons I Learned at The School of Hard Knocks

Blaming, Complaining and Blowing Off Steam Feels Good, but...

Sometimes Growth Is Ugly, Embarrassing, and Hurtful

I Got a Blistering Critique from My Staff, It Hurt and...

Once My Ego Took Over....

I Chose to Be Comfortable Instead of Effective

I Had to Face the Good, the Bad and the Ugly About My Work

No Limits? How I Discovered the Boundaries of Transparency

I Burned Out Because I Thought Everything Was Important

How I Eventually Learned That "Why" Matters More Than "What"

I Failed to Understand and Feel Her Pain

I Valued Compliance Over Empowerment, Until My Student Threw Up

I Thought Everyone Should Be Treated the Same, I Was Wrong

I Was Surrounded by the Wrong People: Being Selective Matters

I Reacted Rashly Because I Didn't Want to Look Weak

I Learned That I Could Not Demand Respect, I Had to...

I Did Not Consider My Audience

I Allowed Myself to Burn Out Again and Tried to Hide It

I Wasn't Prepared for All of the Choices

Hard Lesson: Set Expectations for Students and Parents

I Had to Be Right, Even When I Didn't Have an Answer

Hmm, My Lesson Plan Upset Students, Parents and Went Viral

Why I Focused on the Hard Skills and Neglected the Soft Ones

Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves? Maybe It Is Because...

I Learned That Less Is More

I Had a Power Struggle with a Student and...