Educator Insights Vol 2

Hello Insightful Educators

One of my favorite things to do is grab coffee with someone and catch up on the books, podcasts, TED talks, articles, shows, and people influencing them.

So, alongside the full newsletter, I am pushing out a weekend edition of insights I think you will find influential in your journey as an Insightful Educator.

Think of it as you and I grabbing coffee and jamming on what’s influencing us at this time.

Feel free to reply with what you are finding helpful and invite a friend to subscribe! The more people around the table…the better!

One Person Worth Following

One of my new favorite people and educators is author, keynote presenter, and all around amazing human being: Katie Kinder (@KatieKinder1). Katie is a consultant, speaker, and author of Untold Teaching Truths. You cannot spend five minutes with Katie without sensing her zealous enthusiasm for loving on teachers. If you need someone to come love on your faculty, Katie is the person I’d recommend! Catch her at https://katie-kinder.com/

What I’m reading

I just finished Atomic Habits by James Clear. In this book, Clear breaks down the power of creating systems that help us sustain our visions and goals. He writes, “We do not rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the level of our systems”. In particular, I got the most out of his description of Identity Based Habits: focusing not on what we want to achieve…but on who we wish to become.

“We are limited by where our habits lead us. This is why mastering the decisive moments throughout your day is so important. Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take. These little choices stack up, each one setting the trajectory for how you spend your life”.

As educators, this is extremely helpful for our own practice and craft, and also for helping students create a healthy trajectory in their own lives

Book excerpt I’m pondering

“Village sized community works because it’s what we were built to handle—five to fifty people max. We need to rebuild our infrastructure with healthy villages and commit to being health participants in the villages that we build” Find Your People Jennie Allen

In a lonely, isolated, and disconnected world, creating healthy “villages” within our schools for our students to participate in is a must

TED Talk I watch over and over

You can complement this edition of Educator Insights with my podcast interview on reimagining schools with the Edupreneur Academy

Check out the Innovating Schools for the Innovation Era edition of the Insightful Educator newsletter

As always, please connect and give me feedback on Twitter @drscottamartin

Which insight above is your favorite? What do you want to see more of? What insights do you have? Other suggestions? Please let me know.
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Scott

drscottamartin.org