Teacher Tales #26 – Teacher’s role as a change-maker, state-shifter and dreamweaver: Kim @FreetheMindCo, mother, educator and thought leader
In this episode, you will find hope, inspiration, support and direction from Kim, the founder of Free the Mind Co. Education Week released a study that shows that teachers are more vulnerable to anxiety and depression than any other profession. Another survey shows that over 50% of teachers are burned out and want to leave the profession. Through her experiences working with Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List, with Holocaust Survivors, with Apartheid Activists in South Africa and with orphan and vulnerable children affected by HIV aids, Kim has garnered a wealth of knowledge, compassion, heart, vision and purpose to make the world a better place. To this end, she has partnered with her son, Brent, to create resources, support, trainings and curriculum that help teachers, students and parents navigate their way through anxiety and depression and to develop greater self-awareness and SEL skills. Kim and Brent discovered that anxiety and other emotional challenges stop potential and keep dreams from coming true, but that teachers have the power to create change by shifting the state of being of a child in any given moment and to help them weave together their potential and their dreams. This is a call and an invitation to all teachers to re-examine what is important in the classroom, to re-focus and to create, manifest and weave together a whole new world of potential and possibilities for all children. After, all, the children are watching us, as adults and role models, and we have a choice in every moment how we will show up for them. Success in school is not measured by tests, data, funding, titles or whatever “gizmos and gadgets galore” we own…it is about how we prepare students to answer life’s greatest questions and to learn how to W.I.N., by asking this essential question: What’s.Important.Now?
Check out the resources, courses, support and trainings (including one with Spirit of Teaching) at freethemindco.com or you can reach out to spiritofteaching.org