In August, 2020, in “Know Your Why, Your Purpose,” I described how important it is to know your why as an educator. This fall my staff revisited this concept and every teacher wrote their own why, based on our personal goals and our school’s mission. My why is:
Be a mirror to reflect back to our students their beauty and brilliance so they feel: belonging, safe, heard, seen valued, LOVED.
Some of this wording in my Why comes from Erin Jones in The Humanizing Power of Stories. In this post, I want to describe the importance of helping students know the why of a lesson, and their why as learners.