Education Resignation Conversation: Your Wellness or Your Career? Webinar
Being an educator has always been challenging. A career as a K–12 teacher or administrator, or a college/university faculty/staff member has always been one where rewards came from the work, not a substantial bank account. The impactful rewards in the lives of our students and even the fabric of our institutions was enough to attract and retain professionals in the work. 2020 turned much of that on its ear, and today educators are leaving or contemplating leaving their life’s work. This “contemplation of resignation” is happening for many reasons and is often as personal a decision in the heart and mind of educators as it was to choose the profession in the first place. This national conversation will bring together a panel of K–12 teachers, administrators, and higher education faculty and staff for a robust conversation, led by thought leaders Adam A. Smith and Heather C. Lou, around what has become a Great Education Resignation.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
- The reason(s) why colleagues are leaving.
- Opportunities to remain in education, but do it on your terms.
- Managing political influences on classroom content and curricula.
- The role that virtual learning and remote work played.
- Tuning out the noise that does not allow you to see your students as themselves and provide space where all students belong.
- Managing residual trauma as an educator of color who had to return to a PWI post-pandemic.
About the Presenters