LL026 Showing Your First Draft

Being an educator is vulnerable because we are showing an early draft of our authentic self. We can't improve our practice until we let others see how we show up. Then we need to let the children and our co-workers inspire us to be our best educator self. Like everything, we may feel a bit of imposter syndrome when we try something new, but over time, we can integrate practices that are working and come closer to our ideal. The trick is that we always have to be OK with realizing that there is no end point. There is always more to learn. 

 

Kisa and Mike refer to the Everything ECE Podcast episode, Why Movement Comes Before Mindfulness with Lisa Danahy https://podcast.elfoundations.com/playlist/WvbVjPR8by/file/6NKzrrXvDz 

 

Kisa can be found at The Playlab Foundation and Mike at Inclusion Includes Us, on Instagram and Facebook. Their books are available at https://www.redleafpress.org/ 

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Theme music by John's Black Dirt https://johnsblackdirt.bandcamp.com/album/horrible-moments-of-upness