Teacher Care Now - Teacher Support Community Joycesonia Lawson: Educator & Teacher Care Advocate

On September 14, 2018, 17 year long veteran teacher Diana Tirado was terminated from her job as a US History teacher at West Gate K-8 School in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. She was on a probationary contract and was not given a reason for her termination. On her last day of work, Diane decided to share her reason for why she was fired through a message to her students that she wrote on a dry erase board. She then took a picture of the message and sent it to her students through a class app. That message has been shared through social media and other news outlets, and now Diane is getting a lot of attention from what has happened. In this episode, the details of what has been released are broken down and so is the response from Port Saint Lucy’s superintendent Wayne E. Gent. 
 
Resources:
 
St. Lucie. County superintendent talks about ‘no zero’ grading policy
https://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/st-lucie-county-superintendent-talks-about-no-zero-grading-policy

Teacher Care Now is a teachers port led by, Joycesonia Lawson, a public school teacher for over 18 years. Teacher Care Now is here to help teachers reprioritize their lies and improve their health, wellness, time management, work satisfaction, and family time. It’s only been one week with students and you are ready to quit! Here are some of the latest’s statistics about teacher stress and teachers leaving the classroom. Learn tips for what to do when you want to quit!
Podcasts references:
 AFT & BAT – 2017 Educator Quality of Work Life Survey - https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/2017_eqwl_survey_web.pdf
 School’s back in session, but many teachers aren’t returning https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-new-education-crisis-a-teacher-shortage/
 Lily Jones – Educator Forever – www.educatorforever.com

Teacher Care Now is a teachers port led by, Joycesonia Lawson, a public school teacher for over 18 years. Teacher Care Now is here to help teachers reprioritize their lies and improve their health, wellness, time management, work satisfaction, and family time. Today is the first day back at work, I can’t sleep! Learn tips for when you can’t sleep and it is close to your wake-up time.

Teacher Care Now is a teacher support community led by, Joycesonia Lawson, a public school teacher for over 18 years. Teacher care now is here to help teachers re-prioritize their lies and improve their health, wellness, time management, work satisfaction, and family time. Today you will get to know the host, Joycesonia Lawson, why she created teacher care now, and learn the number one thing she did to start her on the path to reprioritize her life!
 

Teacher Care Now is a teacher support community led by, Joycesonia Lawson, a public school teacher for over 18 years. Teacher Care Now is here to help teachers reprioritize our lives and improve our health, wellness, time management, work satisfaction, and family time. Many teachers suffer from stress, depression, being overworked, overwhelmed, and under supported. This is not best for our students, but more importantly our families or our health and wellness.
When teachers take care of ourselves, we are in a better mental, physical, social, and emotional state to take care of others. In education, we ignore the elephant in the room and continue to put more pressure on teachers. We fail to address that fact that “Student Care is not important if Teacher Care is not important.” Unfortunately, teacher care is not a priority in the educational system and because we continue to try to do more and more with less -it is affecting our work performance, families, and personal health.
Teachers are important. Teachers are valuable. Teachers deserve to be at our best and our families and students deserve us at our best. That all starts with Teacher Care Now!
Episode 001 –Take a moment for you. Join our host, Joycesonia Lawson, in a five minute relaxation and breathing exercise and learn more about Teacher Care Now.